System and method for automatic improvement of electronic presentations

• US 8,775,918 B2
• Filed: 09/24/2009
• Issued: 07/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Visual Software Systems Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Visual Software Systems Ltd.
• Inventors: Livshin, Arie, Nisani, Motti, Schwartz, Shai
• Primary Examiner(s): Bashore, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): SHREWSBURY, NATHAN K
• Application Number:
  US12/566,067
• Publication Number:
  US 20100088605A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,748 Days
• Field of Search: 715/202, 715/731
• US Class Current: 715/202
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text

Abstract

A system and method for improving electronic presentations is provided. The system may automatically improve an electronic presentation. An input presentation may be analyzed and various parameters may be computed. Based on text and/or other analysis, images and/or other objects may be selected to be included in a generated electronic presentation. A design scheme may be automatically selected. An improved electronic presentation may be automatically generated based on an original presentation, user selected parameters, text and/or other analysis of the original presentation and a set of rules, criteria and parameters.

Claims

1. A method for automatic generation of an improved electronic presentation using improvement of an input electronic presentation, the method comprising:

associating a plurality of images with a respective plurality of image keywords and with a respective plurality of scores;

analyzing the input electronic presentation;

associating, based on said analyzing, an object in said input electronic presentation with an object keyword;

designating at least two images included in said plurality of images as candidates for an insertion into the improved electronic presentation by relating said object keyword to said plurality of image keywords;

selecting from the at least two images an image to be inserted into the improved electronic presentation based on relating a first and a second score respectively associated with a first and a second image included in the at least two images;

automatically modifying based on a result of said analysis at least one graphical object included in the input electronic presentation to produce a modified object;

and generating the improved electronic presentation using said modified object and using an image selected for insertion, wherein said input electronic presentation and said improved electronic presentation are in the same proprietary electronic presentation format.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising:

performing text analysis of text included in said input electronic presentation;

selecting, based on said text analysis, at least one image; and

including said at least one image in said improved electronic presentation.

3. The method of claim 2, comprising:

selecting, based on said text analysis, a layout for at least one slide; and

generating said improved electronic presentation according to said layout.

4. The method of claim 1, comprising:

analyzing at least one object included in said input electronic presentation;

selecting, based on said analyzing at least one object, a layout for at least one slide; and

generating said improved electronic presentation according to said layout.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein said at least one object is one of:

an image, a textbox, a table, a chart, a graph, a drawing, a shape, a title and subtitle.

6. The method of claim 4, comprising analyzing said at least one object based on a type and a content of said at least one object.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein analyzing said at least one object comprises determining at least one of:

a location, a size, a type and an orientation of said at least one object.

8. The method of claim 1, comprising:

receiving a mood selection from a user;

selecting a design scheme based on said mood and generating said improved electronic presentation according to said design scheme.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein said scheme defines at least one of:

a font attribute, a color palette, a background attribute, an indentation, an alignment, a border, an animation effect, a slide transition effect, a slide object graphic-format.

10. The method of claim 1, comprising analyzing said input electronic presentation and producing an improved electronic presentation by automatically modifying said input electronic presentation based on a result of said analysis.

11. The method of claim 1, comprising rearranging and reformatting objects in said input electronic presentation to produce the improved electronic presentation.

12. The method of claim 1, comprising generating said improved electronic presentation based on at least one predefined aesthetic rule.

13. The method of claim 1, comprising generating said improved electronic presentation based on at least one predefined design rule.

27. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving said input electronic presentation by a module installed in an electronic presentation authoring application.

28. The method of claim 1, wherein analyzing said input electronic presentation comprises obtaining keywords associated with the input electronic presentation and using the keywords to select an object to be used in generating the improved electronic presentation.

14. An article comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, having stored thereon instructions, that when executed on a computer, cause the computer to:

associating a plurality of images with a respective plurality of image keywords and with a respective plurality of scores;

receive an input electronic presentation;

analyze said input electronic presentation;

associate, based on the analyzing, an object in said input electronic presentation with an object keyword;

designate at least two images included in said plurality of images as candidates for an insertion into an improved electronic presentation by relating said object keyword to said plurality of image keywords;

select from the at least two images an image to be inserted into the improved electronic presentation based on relating a first and a second score respectively associated with a first and a second image included in the at least two images;

automatically modify based on a result of said analysis at least one graphical object included in the input electronic presentation to produce a modified object;

and generate an improved electronic presentation using said modified object and using an image selected for insertion, wherein said input electronic presentation and said improved electronic presentation are in the same proprietary electronic presentation format.

15. The article of claim 14, wherein the instructions when executed further cause the computer to:

perform text analysis of text included in said input electronic presentation;

select, based on said text analysis, at least one image; and

include said at least one image in said improved electronic presentation.

16. The article of claim 15, wherein the instructions when executed further cause the computer to:

select, based on said text analysis, a layout for at least one slide; and

generate said improved electronic presentation according to said layout.

17. The article of claim 14, wherein the instructions when executed further cause the computer to:

analyze at least one object included in said input electronic presentation;

select, based on said analyzing at least one object, a layout for at least one slide; and

generate said improved electronic presentation according to said layout.

18. The article of claim 17, wherein said at least one object is one of:

an image, a textbox, a table, a chart, a graph, a drawing, a shape, a title and subtitle.

19. The article of claim 17, wherein the instructions when executed further cause the computer to analyze said at least one object based on a type and a content of said at least one object.

20. The article of claim 17, wherein the instructions when executed further cause the computer to determine at least one of:

a location, a size, a type and an orientation of said at least one object.

21. The article of claim 14, wherein the instructions when executed further cause the computer to:

receive a mood selection from a user;

select a design scheme based on said mood and generate said improved electronic presentation according to said design scheme.

22. The article of claim 21, wherein said scheme defines at least one of:

a font attribute, a color palette, a background attribute, an indentation, an alignment, a border, an animation effect, a slide transition effect, a slide object graphic-format.

23. The article of claim 14, wherein the instructions when executed further cause the computer to analyze said input electronic presentation and produce an improved electronic presentation by automatically modifying said input electronic presentation based on a result of said analysis.

24. The article of claim 23, wherein the instructions when executed further cause the computer to rearrange and reformat objects in said input electronic presentation to produce the improved electronic presentation.

25. The article of claim 14, wherein the instructions when executed further cause the computer to generate said improved electronic presentation based on at least one predefined aesthetic rule.

26. The article of claim 14, wherein the instructions when executed further cause the computer to generate said improved electronic presentation based on at least one predefined design rule.

29. The article of claim 14, wherein the instructions stored on said non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are a module installed in an electronic presentation authoring application.

30. The article of claim 14, wherein said instructions, when executed on a computer, cause the computer to:

analyze said input electronic presentation to determine at least one keyword associated with the input electronic presentation, and

use the at least one keyword to automatically select at least one graphical object to be used in generating the improved electronic presentation.