Adaptive document displaying apparatus and method

• US 8,949,707 B2
• Filed: 07/30/2008
• Issued: 02/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Hye-Jeong, Chung, Ji-Hye, Lea, Jong-Ho, Kim, Yeun-Bae, Yoo, Byung-In
• Primary Examiner(s): STORK, KYLE R
• Application Number:
  US12/219,936
• Publication Number:
  US 20090106653A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,379 Days
• Field of Search: 715/234, 715/243, 715/254
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191

Abstract

Provided are an adaptive document display apparatus and method, and more particularly, an adaptive document displaying apparatus and method which can adaptively convert a document according to the screen size of a device that is to display the document. The adaptive document displaying apparatus includes: a document analyzing unit analyzing each of a plurality of components included in a document; and a document converting unit converting the document according to the result of analysis and attributes of a display device.

Claims

1. An adaptive document displaying apparatus comprising:

a summary information creating unit to create various lengths of summary information for a first component of a plurality of components included in a document to adjust an amount of contents of the document to be displayed on a display device, the various lengths of summary information being provided to be displayed on the display device replacing the first component so one length of information among the various lengths of summary information is displayed instead of the first component;

a document tree creating unit to analyze each of the plurality of components included in the document and to calculate a priority for each of the plurality of components based on attributes of each respective component, a user'"'"'s profile, and attributes of the display device; and

a document converting unit to convert the document into another document, which includes the one length of summary information and does not include the first component, to be displayed on the display device,

wherein the one length of summary information is selected among the various lengths of summary information using the calculated priority of the first component and the attributes of the display device,

wherein at least one of the summary information creating unit and the document converting unit use one or more processors to create the various lengths of summary information or to convert the document.

2. The adaptive document displaying apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the attribute of the display device includes at least one of a size and a shape of a display screen of the display device.

3. The adaptive document displaying apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the lengths of summary information includes at least one of length of text and size of image.

4. The adaptive document displaying apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein, when the document converting unit converts a document, the summary information creating unit determines the amount of contents, which are to be displayed, based on the size of a region in which each component is displayed and creates summary information of an appropriate length in real time.

5. The adaptive document displaying apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the document converting unit comprises:

a layout converting unit to convert a layout of the document,

wherein when the document is displayed on the display device for a first time, all components of the document are displayed on the display device, and

the layout converting unit converts the layout by adjusting a size of a display region of each component and by adjusting an amount of contents corresponding to each component, to simultaneously display all components of the document on the display device and maintain an existing layout of the document.

6. An adaptive document displaying apparatus comprising:

a document analyzing unit to analyze, using one or more processors, each of a plurality of components included in a document;

a document converting unit to convert the document based on a result of analysis and the attribute of the displaying apparatus, and

wherein the document analyzing unit includes a document tree creating unit to calculate a priority for each of the plurality of components based on attributes of each respective component, a user'"'"'s profile, and an attribute of the displaying apparatus, and

the document converting unit changes an amount of content of each component and a size of a display region of each component based on the result of the analysis using the calculated priority of each component and the attribute of the displaying apparatus,

wherein the document analyzing unit further includes a summary information creating unit to create summary information of each component, and a length of summary information is selected for a first component among the plurality of components using a calculated priority of the first component and the attribute of the displaying apparatus.

7. The adaptive document displaying apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the attribute of the displaying apparatus includes at least one of a size and a shape of a display screen of the displaying apparatus.

8. The adaptive document displaying apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the document tree creating unit creates a document tree which represents hierarchical relationships between the components and comprises a plurality of nodes corresponding to the components, respectively.

9. The adaptive document displaying apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the document converting unit comprises:

a document style converting unit to convert presentation style of each component according to the attributes of the display device; and

a layout converting unit to convert a size of a display region of each component and to convert the amount of contents, which are to be displayed in the display region of the component, according to the size of the display region of the component,

wherein the presentation style of each component comprises at least one of font, font size, color and arrangement of colors of contents contained in each component.

10. An adaptive document displaying apparatus comprising:

a document analyzing unit to analyze, using one or more processors, each of a plurality of components included in a document;

a document converting unit to convert the document based on a result of analysis and the attribute of the displaying apparatus, and

wherein the document analyzing unit includes a document tree creating unit to calculate a priority for each of the plurality of components based on attributes of each respective component, a user'"'"'s profile, and an attribute of the displaying apparatus, and

the document converting unit changes an amount of content of each component and a size of a display region of each component based on the result of the analysis using the calculated priority of each component and the attribute of the displaying apparatus,

wherein the document converting unit comprises;

a layout converting unit to convert a layout of the document,

wherein when the document is displayed on the display device for a first time, all components of the document are displayed on the display device, and

the layout converting unit converts the layout by adjusting a size of a display region of each component and by adjusting an amount of contents corresponding to each component, to simultaneously display all components of the document on the display device and maintain an existing layout of the document.