Story generation methods, story generation apparatuses, and articles of manufacture

• US 8,812,538 B2
• Filed: 05/21/2010
• Issued: 08/19/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Wendy Muzatko
• Original Assignee: Wendy Muzatko
• Inventors: Muzatko, Wendy
• Primary Examiner(s): Mamillapalli, Pavan
• Application Number:
  US12/785,270
• Publication Number:
  US 20110191368A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,551 Days
• Field of Search: 707/769, 715/211
• US Class Current: 707/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting

Abstract

Story generation methods, story generation apparatuses, and articles of manufacture are described. According to one aspect, a story generation method includes displaying a user interface which is configured to assist a user with writing a story; accessing a plurality of words of the story inputted by the user interacting with the user interface; using at least one of the words of the story, selecting one of a plurality of different graphical images which corresponds to the at least one word of the story; and generating a plurality of pages of the story which include the words of the story, and wherein at least one of the pages includes the one graphical image which corresponds to the at least one word of the story.

Claims

1. A story generation method comprising:

displaying a user interface which is configured to assist a user with writing a story;

accessing a plurality of words of the story inputted by the user interacting with the user interface;

using at least one of the words of the story, selecting one of a plurality of different graphical images which corresponds to the at least one word of the story;

generating a plurality of pages of the story which include the words of the story, and wherein the generating one of the pages comprises generating the one of the pages to include the one graphical image which corresponds to the at least one word of the story which was inputted by the user at a first moment in time;

after the generating the one of the pages to include the one graphical image, changing the one graphical image on the one of the pages as a result of another of the words of the story being inputted by the user at a second moment in time after the first moment in time;

wherein the at least one word is a name of a character of the story and the one graphical image comprises different representations of the character of the story corresponding to respective ones of the at least one word of the story and the another of the words of the story; and

wherein the another of the words of the story specifies a characteristic of the one graphical image of the character, and the changing the one graphical image of the character comprises changing according to the specified characteristic, and the user can revise the specified characteristic after the changing and reviewing the one graphical image of the character.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising, using the name of the character, searching a database comprising the graphical images, and the selecting comprises selecting as a result of the name of the character matching one of a plurality of entries of the database, and wherein the one entry of the database comprises the one graphical image.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the changing is automatically performed by processing circuitry in the absence of user input which instructs the changing, and further comprising automatically inserting the one graphical image into the one of the pages of the story in the absence of user input which instructs the insertion.

4. The method of claim 1, before the selecting, further comprising:

presenting a query regarding the character to the user;

accessing a response from the user which corresponds to the query; and

generating the one graphical image of the character in accordance with the response.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the generating comprises generating the one of the pages of the story to include the one graphical image, the at least one word, and the another of the words of the story.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising inputting the another of the words in the absence of any query presented by the user interface to the user.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the changing comprises changing a facial expression of the character.

8. A story generation apparatus comprising:

a display configured to depict an interactive user interface which is configured to assist a user with writing a story;

processing circuitry configured to;

access a plurality of words of the story inputted by the user interacting with the user interface;

use at least one of the words of the story to select one of a plurality of different graphical images which corresponds to the at least one word of the story;

generate a plurality of pages of the story which include the words of the story, and wherein the generating one of the pages comprises generating the one of the pages to include the one graphical image which corresponds to the at least one word of the story which was inputted by the user at a first moment in time; and

after the generating the one of the pages to include the one graphical image, change the one graphical image on the one of the pages as a result of another of the words of the story being inputted by the user at a second moment in time after the first moment in time;

wherein the at least one word is a name of a character of the story and the one graphical image comprises different representations of the character of the story corresponding to respective ones of the at least one word of the story and the another of the words of the story; and

wherein the another of the words of the story specifies a characteristic of the one graphical image of the character, and the changing the one graphical image of the character comprises changing according to the specified characteristic, and the user can revise the specified characteristic after the changing and reviewing the one graphical image of the character.

9. An article of manufacture comprising:

at least one computer-readable non-transitory storage medium comprising programming stored thereon that is configured to cause processing circuitry to perform processing comprising;

controlling a display to depict an interactive user interface which is configured to assist a user with writing a story;

accessing a plurality of words of the story inputted by the user interacting with the user interface;

using at least one of the words of the story, selecting one of a plurality of different graphical images which corresponds to the at least one word of the story;

generating a plurality of pages of the story which include the words of the story, and wherein the generating one of the pages comprises generating the one of the pages to include the one graphical image which corresponds to the at least one word of the story which was inputted by the user at a first moment in time; and

after the generating the one of the pages to include the one graphical image, changing the one graphical image on the one of the pages as a result of another of the words of the story being inputted by the user at a second moment in time after the first moment in time;

wherein the at least one word is a name of a character of the story and the one graphical image comprises different representations of the character of the story corresponding to respective ones of the at least one word of the story and the another of the words of the story; and

wherein the another of the words of the story specifies a characteristic of the one graphical image of the character, and the changing the one graphical image of the character comprises changing according to the specified characteristic, and the user can revise the specified characteristic after the changing and reviewing the one graphical image of the character.

10. The article of claim 9 wherein the selecting comprises selecting the graphical image which corresponds to the character.