Presentation slide contents processor for categorizing presentation slides and method for processing and categorizing slide contents

• US 7,698,645 B2
• Filed: 03/03/2005
• Issued: 04/13/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Fuse, Tohru
• Primary Examiner(s): Lo; Weilun
• Assistant Examiner(s): WONG, WILLIAM
• Application Number:
  US11/070,883
• Publication Number:
  US 20060067578A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,867 Days
• Field of Search: 715730-732, 715/720
• US Class Current: 715/730
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/067 Combinations of audio and projected visual presentation, e.g. film, slides

Abstract

A slide contents processor has a computer, a percentage computer and a categorizing unit. The computer computes a deviation of explanation time of each slide to total explanation time of slides. The percentage computer computes a percentage of objects in the slide based on the number of the objects by type in the slide. The categorizing unit categorizes the slide based on the deviation and the percentage.

Claims

1. A slide contents processor comprising:

a time deviation computer which computes a deviation of a time of an explanation length of a slide in a presentation with respect to a total time of an explanation length of all slides in the presentation;

a percentage computer which computes a percentage of text objects in the slide and a percentage of non-text objects in the slide;

a categorizing unit that categorizes the slide as one of a plurality of slide types based on the computed deviation and the computed percentages of text objects and non-text objects in the slide; and

a display which arranges and displays the slide according to the one of the plurality of slide types determined by the categorizing unit.

2. The slide contents processor according to claim 1, further comprising:

a recording unit which records an explanation time of each slide.

3. The slide contents processor according to claim 1, further comprising:

a counter which counts a number of objects in the slide by object type.

4. The slide contents processor according to claim 1, wherein the categorizing unit computes a slide type of the slide and a score of the slide type of the slide,

wherein the score indicates a strength of correlation of the slide to the computed slide type, and

wherein the slide contents processor further comprises a slide structuring unit which creates a headline list and an article list based on computed slide types and computed scores of slides in the presentation to organize the presentation.

5. The slide contents processor according to claim 4, wherein the headline list includes only slides categorized as keyword.

6. The slide contents processor according to claim 4, wherein the headline list is an ordered list of slides categorized as keyword among the slides in the presentation, and wherein the article list includes the slides categorized as keyword included in the headline list and, for each of the slides categorized as keyword, slides that are not categorized as keyword appearing in the presentation after a slide categorized as keyword to a next slide categorized as keyword appearing in the presentation.

7. The slide contents processor according to claim 4, wherein the article list lists slides that are not categorized as keyword in descending order by score in the slide type.

8. The slide contents processor according to claim 4, wherein the slide structuring unit links a slide categorized as keyword included in the headline list to a list of slides that are not categorized as keyword displayed in the presentation between the slide categorized as keyword in the presentation and a next slide categorized as keyword in the presentation to generate a two-dimensional list.

9. The slide contents processor according to claim 3, wherein the object type includes at least any one of a text object, an image object, and a graphics object.

10. The slide contents processor according to claim 1, wherein the categorizing unit categorizes objects in the slide as one of a text object and a non text object to compute the percentage of text objects and the percentage of non-text objects in the slide.

11. The slide contents processor according to claim 1, wherein the categorizing unit categorizes the slide as at least one of the plurality of slide types, the plurality of slide types including a browsing type slide, a careful reading type slide, an intent listening type slide, and a keyword type slide.

12. The slide contents processor according to claim 1, wherein the categorizing unit assigns the computed deviation of the slide to a horizontal axis of a two-dimensional plane, assigns a difference between the computed percentage of text objects and the computed percentage of non-text objects of the slide to a vertical axis of the two-dimensional plane, and assigns an origin of the two-dimensional plane a value of 0 along the vertical axis and a value of 50 along the horizontal axis.

13. The slide contents processor according to claim 12, wherein the categorizing unit categorizes the slide into one of four quadrants of the two-dimensional plane,

wherein a first quadrant of the four quadrants, in which the deviation of explanation time is positive as seen from the origin and the difference between the percentage of text objects and the percentage of non-text objects of the slide is positive as seen from the origin, is classified as a careful reading quadrant,

wherein a second quadrant of the four quadrants, in which the deviation of explanation time is positive as seen from the origin and the difference between the percentage of text objects and the percentage of non-text objects of the slide is negative as seen from the origin, is classified as an intent listening quadrant,

wherein a third quadrant of the four quadrants, in which the deviation of explanation time is negative as seen from the origin and the difference between the percentage of text objects and the percentage of non-text objects of the slide is positive as seen from the origin, is classified as a keyword quadrant, and

wherein a fourth quadrant of the four quadrants, in which the deviation of explanation time is negative seen from the origin and the difference between the percentage of text objects and the percentage of non-text objects of the slide is negative as seen from the origin, is classified as a browsing quadrant.

14. The slide contents processor according to claim 1, wherein the display includes a correcting unit which changes a layout of the slide in accordance with a screen size of the display.

15. The slide contents processor according to claim 1, wherein the display displays a headline of an item categorized by the categorizing unit.

16. The slide contents processor according to claim 15, wherein the headline of the item includes at least any one of browsing, careful reading, intent listening, and keyword.

17. The slide contents processor according to claim 1, wherein contents of the slide includes at least one of a reduced image of the slide and a title of the slide.

18. The slide contents processor according to claim 1, wherein the time of the explanation length of the slide is a time difference between an explanation start time of the slide and an explanation end time of the slide.

19. The slide contents processor according to claim 1, wherein the time deviation computer computes the deviation with respect to an average explanation time for all slides in the presentation and a standard deviation of explanation time of all slides in the presentation.

20. The slide contents processor according to claim 1, wherein the deviation is computed as:

[(time of the explanation length of the slide)−

(time of average explanation length of all slides in the presentation)/standard deviation]×

10+50.

21. A slide contents processing method comprising:

computing a deviation of a time of an explanation length of a slide in a presentation with respect to a total time of an explanation length of all slides in the presentation;

computing a percentage of text objects in the slide and a percentage of non-text objects in the slide;

categorizing the slide as one of a plurality of slide types based on the computed deviation and the computed percentages of text objects and non-text objects in the slide; and

arranging and displaying the slide on a display according to the one of the plurality of slide types.

22. A computer-readable storage medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a computer causes the computer to execute a slide contents processing method, the method comprising:

computing a deviation of a time of an explanation length of a slide in a presentation with respect to a total time of an explanation length of all slides in the presentation;

computing a percentage of text objects in the slide and a percentage of non-text objects in the slide;

categorizing the slide as one of a plurality of slide types based on the computed deviation and the computed percentages of text objects and non-text objects in the slide; and

arranging and displaying contents of the slide according to the one of the plurality of slide types.

23. A slide contents processor comprising:

a first computer which analyzes a plurality of types of objects within a presentation slide to obtain a percentage of each of the plurality of types of objects in the presentation slide;

a second computer which computes a deviation of a time of an explanation length of the presentation slide with respect to a total time of an explanation length of all slides in the presentation;

a categorizing unit which categorizes the presentation slide as one of a plurality of slide types based on the percentage of each of the plurality of types of objects in the presentation slide and the computed deviation, the plurality of slide types respectively associated with one of four quadrants of a two-dimensional plane, and the presentation slide displayed in one of the four quadrants associated with the one of the plurality of slide types to which the presentation slide is categorized; and

a display which arranges and displays the presentation slide in the one of the four quadrants according to the one of the plurality of slide types determined by the categorizing unit.