Technique for changing the display of web pages as time passes

• US 8,539,333 B2
• Filed: 05/25/2007
• Issued: 09/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Kanzaki, Eisuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hasty, Nicholas
• Application Number:
  US11/753,631
• Publication Number:
  US 20070277102A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,307 Days
• Field of Search: 715/206, 715/210, 715/273, 715/234, 715/744, 707/E17.116
• US Class Current: 715/210
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/986 Document structures and storage, e.g. HTML extensions
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2019/0002 Codebook adaptations
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2019/0014 Selection criteria for distances

Abstract

A display device for displaying a web page is provided, which displays each of the contents contained in a web page so that users can recognize whether the content is new or not. The display device has a displaying unit, an acquiring unit, and a changing unit. The displaying unit displays an image of each of the contents contained in the web page. The acquiring unit acquires a reference time point as a criterion of the age of each of the contents. The changing unit changes, for each of the contents, the image of the content displayed by the displaying unit to an image in which the age of the content is reflected in accordance with expiration of the reference time point.

Claims

1. A display device for displaying a web page, comprising:

a displaying unit for displaying an image of each of multiple contents included in the web page, wherein the displaying unit is a hardware display device;

an acquiring unit for acquiring a reference time point used as a criterion of an age of each of the multiple contents;

a changing unit for analyzing a content of each of the multiple contents to determine a subject of the image of each of the multiple contents included in the web page; and

the changing unit changing, for each of the multiple contents, the image of the subject displayed by the displaying unit by overlaying a second image over the image of the subject in response to an expiration of the reference time point for the content displayed by the displaying unit, wherein, in response to the changing unit determining that the content does not include text;

determining what type of subject is displayed on the web page; and

selectively adjusting a rendering of a visual image of the subject according to an age of the visual image and according to the type of subject being displayed on the web page

in response to determining that the visual image is of a building and that the visual image of the building is older than a predetermined value, tilting the visual image of the building when displayed on the hardware display device.

2. The display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a calculating unit for calculating, for each of the multiple contents, an age of the content based on a difference between a present time point and the reference time point, and wherein

the changing unit changes the image of each of the multiple contents to an image in which the age calculated for the content is reflected.

3. The display device according to claim 2, wherein

the web page is defined as a tagged text in which content to be displayed is written in association with tags that indicate additional information of the content, and wherein

the acquiring unit acquires the reference time point used as the criterion of age of the content from the additional information written in association with each of the multiple contents in the web page.

4. The display device according to claim 2, wherein the changing unit changes the image of the content having the expired reference time point to an image in which the age of the content is reflected by employing a predetermined filter on the image of the content to apply a visual effect on the image.

5. A computer implemented method of modifying a content on a web page according to an age of the content on the web page, the computer implemented method comprising:

displaying an image of the content on the web page;

acquiring a reference time point used as a criterion of the age of the content;

determining if the content includes text that is displayed on the web page;

in response to determining that the content includes text that is displayed on the web page, determining if the text includes a predetermined keyword;

in response to determining that the text includes the predetermined keyword, displaying a message on the web page, indicating that the content has exceeded a predetermined reference time point, while continuing to display the content on the web page; and

in response to determining that the text does not include the predetermined keyword, changing a line width of characters in the text that is displayed on the web page.

6. The computer implemented method of claim 5, further comprising:

in response to determining that the content does not include text, determining what type of visual image displays the content on the web page; and

selectively adjusting a rendering of the visual image according the type of visual image being displayed on the web page.

7. The computer implemented method of claim 6, wherein:

the web page is defined as a tagged text in which content to be displayed is written in association with tags that indicate additional information of the content.

8. The computer implemented method of claim 6, wherein:

the image of the content having the expired reference time point changes to an image in which the age of the content is reflected by combining a predetermined image with the image of the content.

9. The computer implemented method of claim 6, wherein:

the image of the content having the expired reference time point changes to an image in which the age of the content is reflected by employing a predetermined filter on the image of the content to apply a visual effect on the image.

10. The computer implemented method of claim 6, wherein:

on the condition that the content having the expired reference time point includes text, the image of the content changes to an image in which the age of the content is reflected by narrowing line widths of characters included in the text.

11. The computer implemented method of claim 6, wherein:

the image of the content having the expired reference time point changes to an image in which the age of the content is reflected by a mode corresponding to the type of the content.

17. The computer implemented method of claim 5, further comprising:

in response to determining that the visual image is older than a predetermined age, displaying the visual image over a depiction of a paper with curled edges; and

increasing an amount of curling on the curled edges as the visual image gets older.

18. The computer implemented method of claim 5, further comprising:

in response to determining that the visual image is of a person, darkening and decolorizing the visual image of the person displayed on the hardware display device such that the visual image becomes darker and more monochromatic as an age of the visual image increases.

19. The computer implemented method of claim 5, further comprising:

in response to determining that the visual image is of a building and that the visual image of the building is older than a predetermined value, tilting the visual image of the building when displayed on the hardware display device.

12. A non-transitory computer-usable recording medium embodying computer program code, the computer program code comprising computer executable instructions configured for:

displaying an image of a content on a web page;

acquiring a reference time point used as a criterion of an age of the content;

in response to determining that the content does not include text, determining what type of visual image displays the content on the web page; and

selectively adjusting a rendering of the visual image according to an age of the visual image and according to the type of visual image being displayed on the web page;

calculating, for each of multiple contents on the web page, the age of the content based on difference between a present time point and the reference time point;

in response to determining that a first content displayed on the web page is a depiction of a building, tilting the depiction of the building to indicate that an age of the first content has passed the reference time point;

in response to determining that a second content displayed on the web page is a depiction of a person, changing a coloring of the depiction of the person to indicate that an age of the second content has passed the reference time point; and

in response to determining that a third content displayed on the web page is a depiction of a scene that is neither a building nor a person, overlaying a second image over the depiction of the scene that is neither the building nor the person to indicate that an age of the third content has passed the reference time point.

13. The non-transitory computer-usable recording medium of claim 12, wherein:

the web page is defined as a tagged text in which content to be displayed is written in association with tags that indicate additional information of the content, and

wherein the reference time point used as the criterion of age of the content from the information written in association with each of the multiple contents in the web page.

14. The non-transitory computer-usable recording medium of claim 12, further comprising:

calculating, for each of the multiple contents, an age of the content based on a difference between a present time point and the reference time point; and

changing the image of the content having the expired reference time point to an image in which the age of the content is reflected by combining a predetermined image with the image of the content.

15. The non-transitory computer-usable recording medium of claim 12, wherein:

the image of the content having the expired reference time point changes to an image in which the age of the content is reflected by employing a predetermined filter on the image of the content to apply a visual effect on the image.

16. The non-transitory computer-usable recording medium of claim 12, wherein:

on the condition that the content having the expired reference time point includes text, the image of the content changes to an image in which the age of the content is reflected by narrowing line widths of characters included in the text.