Grasping contents of electronic documents

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10055097-B2
Application number	US-201514624655-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 18, 2015
Priority date	Mar 10, 2014
Publication date	Aug 21, 2018
Grant date	Aug 21, 2018

Abstract

A change operation changing a displayed portion of an electronic document from a first portion to a second portion is detected. First and second ranges of displayable portions of the electronic document are determined. The first range includes the first portion of the document and the second range includes the second portion of the document. A character string appears at a first frequency in the first range, and appears at a second frequency in the second range. Change information is generated that relates the second appearance frequency to the first appearance frequency.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A device for displaying a character string to assist in grasping contents of an electronic document displayed on a display of the device, the display device having a processor and a non-transitory computer memory having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by the processor to cause the device to:
detect a change operation, based on an input from a user to the display device, to change a part of the electronic document displayed on the display device from a first part to a second part, the first part displayed by the display of the device:
determine a size of a part of the electronic document changed per unit time by the change operation is larger than a threshold value or less than or equal to the threshold value;
determine, in response to detection of the change operation, a first range of portions of the electronic document before receiving the input from the user to change to the second part of the electronic document and determine a second range of the electronic document in response to detection of the change operation and after receiving the input from the user, the first range and the second range having a first size when the size of a part of the electronic document changed per unit time by the change operation is larger than the threshold value, the first range and the second range having a second size when the size of a part of the electronic document changed per unit time by the change operation is less than or equal to the threshold value, the first size being larger than the second size,
wherein the first range includes a first portion of the document before the first part and a second portion of document after the first part and wherein the second range includes a first portion of the document before the second part and second portion of the document after the second part;
wherein the character string having a first appearance frequency in the first range, the character string having a second appearance frequency in the second range;
generate change information for the character string by increasing or decreasing a size of the character string displayed on the display device, the change information relating a difference between the second appearance frequency and the first appearance frequency to a determination of a display attribute of the character string in the second part; and
display the character string in the second part using the display attribute determined based on the change information.

2. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the program instructions are further executable by the processor to cause the device to: detect the change operation continuously the part of the electronic document displayed on the device; and continuously generate the change information for the character string.

3. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the program instructions are further executable by the processor to cause the device to: set a size of the second range to a third size when the size of a part of the electronic document changed per unit time by the change operation is larger than the threshold value; and set the size of the second range to a fourth size when the size of a part of the electronic document changed per unit time by the change operation is not larger than the threshold value, wherein the third size is larger than the fourth size.

4. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the program instructions are further executable by the processor to cause the device to generate the change information including display attributes of the character string in the second range, wherein the display attribute indicates whether the first appearance frequency is greater than or less than the second appearance frequency.

5. A device for assisting in grasping contents of an electronic document on a display device with the electronic document displayed thereon, the device having a processor and a non-transitory computer memory having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by the processor to cause the device to:
detect a change operation, based on an input from a user to the display device, to change a part of the electronic document displayed on the display device from a first part to a second part, the first part displayed by the display of the device:
determine a size of a part of the electronic document changed per unit time by the change operation is larger than a threshold value or less than or equal to the threshold value;
determine, in response to detection of the change operation, a first range of portions of the electronic document before receiving the input from the user to change to the second part of the electronic document and determine a second range of the electronic document in response to detection of the change operation and after receiving the input from the user, the first range and the second range having a first size when the size of a part of the electronic document changed per unit time by the change operation is larger than the threshold value, the first range and the second range having a second size when the size of a part of the electronic document changed per unit time by the change operation is less than or equal to the threshold value, the first size being larger than the second size,
wherein the first range includes a first portion of the document before the first part and a second portion of document after the first part and wherein the second range includes a first portion of the document before the second part and second portion of the document after the second part;
wherein the character string having a first appearance frequency in the first range, the character string having a second appearance frequency in the second range;
generate change information for the character string by increasing or decreasing a size of the character string displayed on the display device, the change information relating a difference between the second appearance frequency and the first appearance frequency to a determination of a display attribute of the character string in the second part; and
display the character string in the second part using the display attribute determined based on the change information.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Kurokawa Hiroshi
• Mizuno Takahisa
• Shioya Tomohiro
• Tamai Sayaka

Classifications

• G06F3/04855

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• G06F3/0483 Primary

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