Information output apparatus, method, and recording medium for displaying information on a video display

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9117314-B2
Application number	US-201213484344-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 31, 2012
Priority date	Mar 5, 2008
Publication date	Aug 25, 2015
Grant date	Aug 25, 2015

Abstract

The most-frequently-used font size on a Web page acquired from a server unit is determined. The font size is changed so that the font of the most-frequently-used font size (Sdominant) may take a preset optimum font size (Sopt). At the same time, the fonts of the remaining font sizes are changed as much (Sdiff=Sopt−Sdominant) as in the font size changing process.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A non-transitory computer program storage medium readable by a computer system and encoding a computer program for executing a computer process for displaying information on a video display, the computer process comprising:
presetting a specified font size, a minimum setting font size, and a maximum setting font size for the font sizes of text items included in display data, wherein the display data is a Web page having text that includes text items;
extracting the frequency of use for each of the font sizes of text items included in the display data,
determining a font size whose frequency of use is high among the frequencies of use of the font sizes,
setting a condition for uniformly merging the font size of text for each of the font sizes smaller than the font size with a high frequency of use to correspond to the individual font sizes in the range from the preset specified font size to the minimum setting font size,
setting a condition for uniformly merging the font size of text for each of the font sizes larger than the font size with a high frequency of use to correspond to the individual font sizes in the range from the preset specified font size to the maximum setting font size,
changing text of the font size with a high frequency of use to text of the preset specified font size,
changing the font size of text for each of the font sizes smaller than the font size with a high frequency of use according to the condition set by the changing of text of the font size with a high frequency of use,
changing the font size of text for each of the font sizes larger than the font size with a high frequency of use according to the condition set by the changing of the font size of text for each of the font sizes smaller than the font size with a high frequency of use; and
displaying, on the video display, both the text items whose font size has been changed from an original font size and text items whose font size has not been change from the original font size, wherein the text items are displayed in various sizes on the Web page having the text without losing a size balance of the text items,
wherein
the determining the font size whose frequency of use is high includes determining the font size with a high frequency of use among the frequencies of use of font sizes extracted by the extracting, the maximum font size, and minimum font size,
the setting the condition for uniformly merging the font size of text for each of the font sizes smaller than the font size includes dividing a value obtained by subtracting the minimum font size from the font size with a high frequency of use by a value obtained by subtracting the minimum setting font size from the specified font size preset by the presetting, applying a ceiling function to a result of the dividing, and setting the result of the dividing as the condition for the number of text items of the individual font sizes smaller than the font size with a high frequency of use to be merged to correspond to the font sizes in the range from the preset specified font size to the minimum setting font size,
the setting the condition for uniformly merging the font size of text for each of the font sizes larger than the font size includes dividing a value obtained by subtracting the font size with a high frequency of use from the maximum font size by a value obtained by subtracting the specified font size from the maximum setting font size preset by the presetting, applying the ceiling function to a result of the dividing and setting the result of the dividing as the condition for the number of text items of the individual font sizes larger than the font size with a high frequency of use to be merged to correspond to the font sizes in the range from the preset specified font size to the maximum setting font size,
the changing of the font size of text for each of the font sizes smaller that the font size with the high frequency of user further changes text items of the individual font sizes smaller than the font size with a high frequency of use to correspond to the font sizes in the range from the preset specified font size to the minimum setting font size according to the condition for the number of text items to be merged set by the first condition setting process, and
the changing of the font size of text for each of the font sizes larger that the font size with a high frequency of use further changes text items of the individual font sizes larger than the font size with a high frequency of use to correspond to the font sizes in the range from the preset specified font size to the maximum setting font size according to the condition for the number of text items to be merged set by the second condition setting process.

2. A method for displaying information on a video display, the method comprising:
presetting, by a system that includes a processor, a specified font size, a minimum setting font size, and a maximum setting font size for the font sizes of text items included in display data, wherein the display data is a Web page having text that includes text items;
extracting, by the system, the frequency of use for each of the font sizes of text items included in the display data,
determining, by the system, a font size whose frequency of use is high among the frequencies of use of the font sizes extracted by the extracting,
setting, by the system, a condition for uniformly merging the font size of text for each of the font sizes smaller than the font size with a high frequency of use to correspond to the individual font sizes in the range from the preset specified font size to the minimum setting font size,
setting, by the system, a condition for uniformly merging the font size of text for each of the font sizes larger than the font size with a high frequency of use to correspond to the individual font sizes in the range from the preset specified font size to the maximum setting font size,
changing, by the system, text of the font size with a high frequency of use to text of the preset specified font size,
changing, by the system, the font size of text for each of the font sizes smaller than the font size with a high frequency of use according to the condition set by the setting the condition for uniformly merging the font size of text for each of the font sizes smaller than the font size,
changing, by the system, the font size of text for each of the font sizes larger than the font size with a high frequency of use according to the condition set by the setting the condition for uniformly merging the font size of text for each of the font sizes larger than the font size; and
displaying, on the video display, both the text items whose font size has been changed from an original font size and text items whose font size has not been changed from the original font size, wherein the text items are displayed in various sizes on the Web page having the text without losing a size balance of the text items,
wherein
the determining the font size whose frequency of use is high among the frequencies of use further includes determining, by the system, the font size with a high frequency of use among the frequencies of use of font sizes extracted by the extracting the frequency of use for each of the font sizes of the text items included in the display data, the maximum font size, and minimum font size,
the setting the condition for uniformly merging the font size of text for each of the font sizes smaller than the font size with a high frequency of use includes dividing a value obtained by subtracting the minimum font size from the font size with a high frequency of use by a value obtained by subtracting the minimum setting font size from the specified font size preset by the presetting, applying a ceiling function to a result of the dividing, and setting the result of the dividing as the condition for the number of

Assignees

• Tomida Takahiro
• Casio Computer Co Ltd

Inventors

• Tomida Takahiro

Classifications

• G06T11/60 Primary

  Creating or editing images; Combining images with text · CPC title