Pagination Patents (Class 715/251)
  • Patent number: 8572476
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and a method may be provided for controlling an operation of the mobile terminal. This may include displaying a first webpage on a display module, and if a second webpage is chosen to be displayed, determining whether the second webpage is provided by the same website that provides the first webpage. If the second webpage is provided by the same website that provides the first webpage, the first and second webpages may be merged into a third webpage and the third webpage may be displayed on the display module. Therefore, a plurality of webpages provided by a same webpage may be displayed at a same time by merging the webpages into a single webpage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Il Byoung Yi, Sung Pil Yoon
  • Publication number: 20130268847
    Abstract: A system and method that displays pages of an e-book on a display of a mobile device, according to a user's input information related to the pages is provided. The page display method of a mobile device with a touch screen, includes displaying at least one page of an e-book on the touch screen, detecting a touch in a first corner area of one of the at least one displayed page, deforming the first corner area to a second corner area in response to the touch, detecting a first touch moving from the second corner area, and folding the displayed page according to the movement of the first touch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngri KIM, Sanghyup LEE, Shinjun LEE, Juyoun LEE
  • Patent number: 8539342
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a system for generating a presentation order from a document that has fixed presentation layout when rendered. Techniques include reconstructing structural information and logical ordering for fixed-layout documents. A document editor generates a presentation order, or a read order, for contents within a fixed-layout document. The document editor creates an initial sort order for areas of content within a document. The document editor then generates a presentation order based on graphical dimensions and graphical placement relationships among areas of content within a document. The resulting presentation order can be used to create a second document or second layout, or to add structural information to create reflowed or reflowable content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventor: Paton J. Lewis
  • Patent number: 8537408
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus performs layout processing on print data, performs a preview based on layout-processed print data, and stores the print data used in the preview into a print queue when actual print processing is performed, thus preventing the same print processing from being repeatedly performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideo Natori, Kenichiro Uotani
  • Patent number: 8539341
    Abstract: We describe a method of displaying a document page with a predetermined size using a display device having edges defining lateral dimensions not substantially larger than said predetermined size and having a central re-writable display portion and a non-re-writable border, said document page comprising a central, foreground portion bearing one or both of text and graphics, a background having a background color and at least one margin having said background color, the method comprising: inputting page data defining a page for display; processing said page data to crop margins of said page such that, when displayed on said re-writable display portion, said non-re-writable border gives the appearance of said cropped margins, said processing generating cropped page data; and outputting said cropped page data for display on said re-writable display portion of said display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Plastic Logic Limited
    Inventors: Duncan Barclay, Steven Farmer, Carl Hayton, Simon Joines, Anusha Nirmalananthan, Paul A. Cain, Barry Merrick
  • Publication number: 20130232407
    Abstract: Systems and methods for producing, reproducing, and maintaining electronic books are provided. In one aspect, a system (20) may include a book producing device (21) configured to create at least one page image (47) for an electronic book including reproducible content, where the page image (47) includes a selectable portion having a part of the reproducible content of the electronic book. In addition, the system (20) may also include an electronic book reproducing device (24). The electronic book reproducing device (24) may be configured to determine a target area (92) based on a selection by a user of the selectable portion of the page image (47), and, selectively reproduce, within the target area (92) and in a predetermined manner, the reproducible content and/or other data associated with the selectable portion of the page image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kensuke Onuma, Koji Fukui, Yuta Yamaguchi, Toshiyuki Katsumoto
  • Patent number: 8526036
    Abstract: Systems and methods consistent with some embodiments presented provide methods for print resource management. In some embodiments of methods for print resource management print data comprising PDL data may be parsed to identify reusable resources in the print data. The reusable resources may be converted to a common internal format and stored. In some embodiments, reusable resources may be rendered to obtain a rendered version of the reusable resource, which may be stored. In some embodiments, the stored rendered version or a rendered form of the stored formatted version of the reusable resource may be used in a bitmap image for a page whenever the reusable resource is referenced during the creation of the bitmap image for the page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Laboratory U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventors: Darrell Eugene Bellert, Eduard G. Bauboeck
  • Publication number: 20130227400
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an extraction unit configured to scan document data in a direction from a first page to a last page to extract a first page range required for reducing one page and to scan the document data from the last page in the first page range in a direction opposite to the direction of scanning the first page range to extract a second page range required for reducing one page, and a page reduction unit configured to execute page reduction processing by reducing a blank region included in a page in the second page range if a number of pages included in the second page range is smaller than a number of pages included in the first page range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
  • Patent number: 8516363
    Abstract: In an image processing apparatus, a plurality of images and a page allocation area including a plurality of sections are displayed. The allocation unit determines which one of the images is to be allocated to which one of the sections and allocates the images to the sections, and a preview image generating unit generates a preview image of the page allocation area based on allocation made by the allocation unit, and displays the preview image on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Sakuramata, Tetsuya Sakayori, Takashi Yano, Junichi Takami, Hiroko Mano, Takanori Nagahara, Iwao Saeki
  • Patent number: 8499236
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for presenting reflow objects of content on an output medium. In some embodiments, the content to be presented may be determined by rendering one or more reflow objects of content to an image file, the image file having a horizontal dimension that approximates the horizontal dimension of the output medium and a vertical dimension that exceeds the vertical dimension of the output medium, and causing a portion of the image file to be presented on the output medium, wherein the portion of the image file presented corresponds to a view window logically superimposed upon the image file. A request for content that is not within the view window may be received, the location of the view window may be adjusted based on the request, and the adjustment may result in changing the portion of the image file presented on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathan W. Keljo
  • Patent number: 8489984
    Abstract: An input of a layout of one or more components in a container component is received and a new cross platform layout of the one or more components in the container component is generated. The cross platform layout includes at least one automatically sized autopad and/or container autopad that defines spacing to properly position the one or more components within the container component. The size of the autopad and/or container autopad is determined upon execution of the cross platform layout on a software platform using a visual guideline for that software platform. In some embodiments, some or all of the components are automatically positioned in the cross platform layout such that a contents of each of the components, such as text, is laid out within the container component along the same baseline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Oracle America, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott R. Violet, Tomas Pavek, Jan Stola
  • Publication number: 20130174025
    Abstract: Visual comparison of document versions is described. In some implementations, versions of a document can be quickly displayed using a single user input. In some implementations, a displayed page of a version of the document can be replaced by a corresponding page of another version of the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventors: Keng Fai Lee, Wing Hung Chan, Ka Lok Li, Sidney Hok Nang Fong, Siu Lung Tam, Wang Chiu Chan, Pui Ki Chan, Oi Ying Angela Lee
  • Publication number: 20130167019
    Abstract: An electronic notebook device (100) disclosed includes: a state shifting section (11) for accepting deletion mode shift gesture information indicative of a gesture performed in a direction along, among the sides of a page displayed, a side on which the page is bound; and a page deleting section (14) for deleting page information for the currently display page in the case where after the state shifting section (11) has accepted the deletion mode shift gesture information, a deletion accepting section (13) has accepted gesture information indicative of a gesture performed in a direction away from the page binding side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Minoru Wadayama, Kohji Akasaka, Hiroshi Fukutomi
  • Publication number: 20130159844
    Abstract: A control unit of a personal computer (PC) 1 functions as a document data acquisition portion, an analysis portion, a page break processing portion, and an output portion. The document data acquisition portion acquires document data from a word processor or the like according to a data processing program stored in an HDD. The analysis portion analyzes characters constituting the acquired document data. When the analyzed characters indicate a first character, the page break processing portion performs page break processing at a position of the first character. The output portion outputs the document data that has undergone the page break processing to a printer driver portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
  • Patent number: 8457432
    Abstract: Various embodiments create a source image from a web page and then process the source image effective to remove left and/or right border areas so that a reduced-size web page image created from the source image has a better chance of capturing relevant content for a viewer. In at least some embodiments, image processing techniques are utilized to identify repeating patterns of pixels along left and/or right border areas of a source image. The image processing techniques can process individual rows of pixels looking for patterns of pixel color values. Identified patterns of pixel color values are noted and then subsequently used to remove regions of the source image in which repeating patterns occur. Having removed these regions from a source image, the source image can be reduced in a manner directed to improving information density contained in a reduced-size web page image created from the source image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Karim T. Farouki, Radu C. Margarint, Timothy R. Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20130139052
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of e-book technologies, and in particular, to a method and an apparatus for loading an EPub e-book into a reading device. A method for loading an EPub e-book provided herein includes: resolving a directory file of the EPub e-book to obtain directory index information of each chapter of the EPub e-book, and displaying a directory of the EPub e-book; resolving a chapter selected in the EPub e-book, and displaying content of the resolved chapter and a page number of a current page relative to the selected chapter; and obtaining number of pages of every other chapter in the EPub e-book, and displaying page number information according to the obtained number of pages of each chapter. The corresponding reading device and a system for sharing loading data of all chapters of an EPub e-book are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20130139051
    Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium storing a program readable by a computer of a mobile terminal including: a storage configured to store an image data set containing image data having order numbers; and a display. The program causes the computer to function as a display controller that controls displays a first image based on image data that is a selected one of the image data. The display controller, where images respectively based on the image data have a two-page-spread relationship, displays the first image and a second image consecutive to the first image in a two-page spread layout in which the first image and the second image are arranged respectively on one and the other of the right and left pages; and where the images do not have the two-page-spread relationship, displays the first image in a layout that differs from the two-page spread layout.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Inventor: Naoto SHIRAGA
  • Patent number: 8451489
    Abstract: A PDF document is repurposed to save paper and ink. Preprocessing is performed on the PDF document. The PDF document has a first quantity of pages of content and a first quantity of ink. Further, complexity analysis is performed on the PDF document. In addition, a document object model based on the PDF document is created. In addition, content re-layout is performed on the PDF document based on the content repurposing such that a printer prints the PDF document with the content in a transformed format that results in a second quantity of pages being printed without falling below a predetermined readability threshold and a second quantity of ink being utilized. The second quantity of pages is less than the first quantity of pages. The second quantity of ink is less than the first quantity of ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Kapil Arora, Naveen Goel, Amit Mittal, Hemant Virmani
  • Patent number: 8446620
    Abstract: In order to display the more detailed print status of an electronic document having a tree structure, information about the tree structure is added to a print command. Furthermore, for information management, the information about the tree structure is associated with a corresponding page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideki Honda
  • Patent number: 8446636
    Abstract: Disclosed is a variable printing system, which makes it possible to efficiently implement a variable printing, based on streamed variable print data. The variable printing system includes: the variable print data generating apparatus that creates variable print data in which an identifier, indicating an instruction for deleting a specific reusable object that will not be used in following pages, is embedded into a potion for describing page information including information in regard to the specific reusable object, and streams the above-created variable print data; and the variable printing control apparatus that receives the streamed variable print data to rasterized the concerned object, and synthesizes the rasterized data with each other so as to create image data for every page, and at the same time, conducts such the controlling operation to delete specific rasterized data of the specific reusable object, designated by the identifier, from the cache memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Hideyuki Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8438469
    Abstract: A method of embedding evaluations in a document is described. An identifier tag is embedded in the document in response to a first user action. The document may include a web page. The identifier tag includes a review and an identifier associated with an entity that is a subject of the review. A rating tag is embedded in the document in response to a second user action. The rating tag includes a rating value corresponding to a user-selected rating of the entity that is the subject of the review. The rating value may be selected from a set of pre-determined rating values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: James Kevin Scott, Jeff C. Reynar, Jeremy A. Hylton, Kushal B. Dave
  • Patent number: 8438476
    Abstract: A product creator system includes a business application and a distribution utility. The business application enables a user to specify and/or edit (via a user client) a document. The business application generates a packet that is transmitted to the distribution utility. The packet describes the document, such as a document of a particular type (where the document is based on variable content and/or variable layout), and a distribution method for the document. Distribution methods include print, ship, mail, fax, email, and save. The distribution utility generates and distributes the document (via an output device) based on the packet. The business application, which can be used with a variety of distribution utilities, includes a web front-end and a packet generator. The distribution utility, which can be used with a variety of business applications, includes control logic and a document processor. The document processor helps generate the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Uhlig LLC
    Inventors: Mark A. Uhlig, Kristina M. Hayes, Justin B. Hansen, Arthur S. French, II, Lauretta J. McMillen, Amy J. Geisler
  • Patent number: 8432563
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a dynamic re-configuration with a DFE imager and caching modules to optimize RIP performance by analyzing pages within the job that collect page with job heuristics and statistics. Enabling the functionality to assess the information, thereby re-configuring a digital printer's imager and caching module dynamically during the job RIP to achieve improved overall RIP performance. Accordingly, a system collects and assesses job statistics across multiple jobs to enable optimum performance over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Eric S. Barnes
  • Publication number: 20130080881
    Abstract: In some implementations, a device displays supplemental information in connection with a digital work. The supplemental information may include a visual representation that represents one or more occurrences of an object in the digital work. The visual representation may include an area representative of an expanse of the digital work. At least one marking is located in the area in correlation to a location of an occurrence of the object in the digital work. In some examples, the visual representation may include a plurality of markings representing multiple occurrences of the object in the digital work, with a first or leftmost marking positioned in the area in proportion to a first occurrence of the object in the digital work. A second or rightmost marking may be positioned in the area in proportion to a final occurrence of the object in the digital work.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Inventors: Joshua M. Goodspeed, Janna Hamaker, Adam J. Iser, Tom Killalea, Abhishek Patnia, Alla Taborisskaya
  • Publication number: 20130080882
    Abstract: A method for executing an application program is applied to an electronic device. A frame displayed by the electronic device includes a first icon, and the first icon corresponds to the application program. The method includes storing a first predetermined parameter corresponding to a first function of the application program; generating a first graph at a first location of the frame; dragging the first icon to overlap at least part of the first graph; comparing the first graph with the first predetermined parameter; starting the first function of the application program if the first graph matches the first predetermined parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Inventor: Yu-Hui Cho
  • Publication number: 20130061134
    Abstract: A storage device may store a page processing program that, when executed, causes an information processing apparatus to perform a series of steps. The steps may include acquiring information indicating pages to be printed on successive back and front sides of separate recording media, and associating, based on the acquired information, a top page of a first page group including the pages with a front side or a back side of a recording medium such that the pages is set to be printed on successive back and front sides of separate recording media. The steps may further include determining whether the top page has been associated with a back side of a recording medium and inserting a page at a top of the first page group in a case that the top page is determined to be associated with the back side of the recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirotoshi Maehira
  • Publication number: 20130031472
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes a display unit, a detecting unit, and a control unit. The display unit displays a publication. The detecting unit detects a plurality of objects that perform an operation of turning one or more pages of the publication. The control unit for determines a range of pages to be turned, based on a distance between the objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro UENO, Shigeki TANABE
  • Publication number: 20130031471
    Abstract: Disclosed are an electronic document rasterizing method and an electronic document rasterizing device. The method comprises a thumbnail image rasterizing step of calculating an initial resolution for rasterizing a thumbnail image of the electronic document page, and then carrying out rasterization with regard to the thumbnail image of the electronic document page; an electronic document page dividing step of dividing, based on a designated resolution and the size of a display area, the electronic document page into plural regional segments; a region-of-interest determining step of determining, in response of designation of a position of interest, a current region of interest in the plural regional segments; and a region-of-interest rasterizing step of determining at least one document segment belonging to the current region of interest, and then rasterizing the current region of interest by rasterizing the document segment belonging to the current region of interest based on the designated resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Wenhui Xu, Cheng Du, Fumihiro Hasegawa, Koichi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20130024767
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic book (E-book) terminal comprising a touch screen and configured to switch a screen corresponding to content includes a display for displaying a user input area set to support an application for screen switching, and display a screen where page switching is performed depending on a user's manipulation made in the user input area, an input recognizer for recognizing an action command corresponding to the manipulation made on the touch screen in the user input area displayed on the display, and a controller for detecting a start page, a moving direction, and a moving distance based on the action command recognized by the input recognizer. The controller configured to display a page-switching screen from the start page to a target page determined based on the moving direction and the moving distance, and displaying the target page upon completion of moving of the page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyeong-Min Nam
  • Publication number: 20130019166
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for automatically classifying images of pages of a source, such as a book, into classifications such as front cover, copyright page, table of contents, text, index, etc. In one embodiment, three phases are provided in the classification process. During a first phase of the classification process, a first classifier may be used to determine a preliminary classification of a page image based on single-page criteria. During a second phase of the classification process, a second classifier may be used to determine a final classification for the page image based on multiple-page and/or global criteria. During an optional third phase of classification, a verifier may be used to verify the final classification of the page image based on verification criteria. If automatic classification fails, the page image may be passed on to a human operator for manual classification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Inventors: Bradley Jeffery Behm, Brent Eric Wood
  • Publication number: 20130007603
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, techniques are described herein to assist a publisher to create fixed layout pages of an electronic publication. The techniques are useful for creating cookbooks, travel books, photography books, children's books, other “illustrated books”, or any other electronic publication where a fixed layout for at least some of the pages of the electronic publication is desirable. With the techniques, the publisher may embed fonts, select particular fonts and font sizes, assign visual content to fixed layout pages, and precisely position visual content at fixed positions on fixed layout pages. A scaling mechanism for an electronic reader device is also disclosed for scaling fixed layout pages to fit the size of a display screen of the reader device while maintaining the aspect ratio and assignment of visual content to fixed layout pages specified by the publisher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Casey M. Dougherty, David Makower, Craig Milito, Alan C. Cannistraro
  • Publication number: 20130007602
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, techniques are described herein to assist a publisher to create fixed layout pages of an electronic publication. The techniques are useful for creating cookbooks, travel books, photography books, children's books, other “illustrated books”, or any other electronic publication where a fixed layout for at least some of the pages of the electronic publication is desirable. With the techniques, the publisher may embed fonts, select particular fonts and font sizes, assign visual content to fixed layout pages, and precisely position visual content at fixed positions on fixed layout pages. A scaling mechanism for an electronic reader device is also disclosed for scaling fixed layout pages to fit the size of a display screen of the reader device while maintaining the aspect ratio and assignment of visual content to fixed layout pages specified by the publisher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Casey M. Dougherty, David Makower, Craig Milito, Alan C. Cannistraro
  • Publication number: 20120324344
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a designation unit configured to designate a number of pages, a calculation unit configured to calculate an enlargement ratio based on original data, the number of pages designated by the designation unit, and an area of a display unit, a size change unit configured to change a size of an object included in the original data based on the enlargement ratio calculated by the calculation unit, and a display unit configured to display the object whose size has been changed by the size change unit on the display unit on a page-by-page basis by using the number of pages designated by the designation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masakatsu Sakurai
  • Patent number: 8332749
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for creating a document is provided. The lower limit position on the last page of a table graphic pattern which constitutes a document is designated. The position and shape of the table graphic pattern are set. Data is input into the table graphic pattern. A table graphic pattern component on the last page of the table graphic pattern is deformed such that the table graphic pattern component on the last page is not located at a position lower than the lower limit position when inputting data into the table graphic pattern component on the last page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroki Koyano
  • Patent number: 8332750
    Abstract: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for resolving inter-page nodes in flow diagrams is presented. In one embodiment, an inter-page node in a flow diagram is identified. An inter-page node is a node laid out on a page break in a multi-page flow diagram. A set of candidate pages is formed. A bid for each page in a set of candidate pages is requested from each policy in a set of page break policies. A page is selected from the set of candidate pages based on bids received from the set of page break policies. A value of each bid indicates a level of suitability of each page in the set of candidate pages. The inter-page node located on the page break is moved to a new location on the selected page. The new location on the selected page is located off of all page breaks for the flow diagram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Omid Banyasad, Mark Andrew MacDonald, Siobhan Nearey, Rodrigo Trevizan Peretti, David Douglas Springgay
  • Patent number: 8325367
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automatically assigning items to printable media are disclosed. A computer readable medium is in communication with a computing device and includes programming instructions for electronically obtaining a first template that includes a plurality of first content items, each including a first content area. For each first content item, first content area properties and first content item properties are identified. A second template including a plurality of second content areas is electronically obtained. For each second content area, second content area properties, second content item properties and content rules are automatically identified. For each first content item, it may be determined whether a first content item corresponds to a second content area based on the rules. The first content item may be automatically assigned to the second content area. A representation of each assigned content item may be printed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Dale Ellen Gaucas, Kirk J. Ocke, Michael David Shepherd
  • Publication number: 20120304053
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for displaying content on an electronic book having a plurality of physically distinct displays configured to be turned by a user. A content page may be calculated for display on a display page with number Dm, different from the currently opened display page number Dn. The content page may be calculated based at least in part on a ratio between Dd and Dr, where Dd is a difference between Dm and Dn, and Dr is a number of display pages between the currently opened display page and a beginning or end of the available display pages formed by the plurality of displays of the electronic book.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tadashi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 8310713
    Abstract: The printer successively stores the objects contained in the PDF file as they are transmitted from the PC, and conducts the printing process for said specific page when it judges that all the objects necessary for displaying said page are stored. Also, when a memory overflow occurs, it successively prints out content objects contained in the constituent data of the PDF file stored in the RAM, while assigning identification names, and deletes the data for the content objects already printed out from the RAM so that additional constituent data of the PDF file can be received successively. It finally generates and prints out the table of contents based on the identification names of the content object and the information of the page object and the page list object. Thus, it is possible to form images directly receiving a document file such as a PDF file on a printer with a limited usable memory capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tadayuki Sugimoto, Masahiro Ozawa, Takenori Idehara
  • Patent number: 8291311
    Abstract: A system which converts a first Web display program designed for a first communication terminal apparatus to a second Web display program for a second communication terminal apparatus. The system of the present invention stores a segment list created by dividing the first Web display program into segments, assigning identification information to tags contained in the segments, and listing the identification information, stores a conversion condition created for the segments for changing a display setting described in the first Web display program to a display setting of the second Web display program, and stores a conversion program for causing a conversion process for converting the first Web display program to the second Web display program to be executed using he segment list and the conversion condition. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the conversion process is executed by the second communication terminal apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Showcase-TV Inc.
    Inventor: Toyoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20120246560
    Abstract: The system relates to identifying critical textual passages that influence the pagination of electronic documents such that the addition or removal of text to these critical passages will have the effect of shortening or lengthening the document
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: WRITE BROTHERS, INC.
    Inventors: Stephen Michael Greenfield, Christopher Neal Huntley
  • Publication number: 20120240036
    Abstract: To help a reader of an electronic document, e.g., an eBook, find his or her reading location following a repagination event, an electronic reader application executing on an electronic device displays a first portion of content of the electronic document, detects that the reader has performed a predetermined action that triggers repagination of the electronic document, and repaginating the electronic document to cause the reader application to display a second portion of content of the electronic document, the second portion including at least some of the first portion of content and at least some newly visible content of the electronic document, such that the newly visible content appears visually different, at least temporarily, from the first portion of content that remains visible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Joe R. Howard, Alan C. Cannistraro, Scott A. Grant, Timothy B. Martin
  • Patent number: 8264502
    Abstract: A document processing system for accurately and efficiently analyzing documents and methods for making and using same. Each incoming document includes at least one section of textual content and is provided in an electronic form or as a paper-based document that is converted into an electronic form. Since many categories of documents, such as legal and accounting documents, often include one or more common text sections with similar textual content, the document processing system compares the documents to identify and classify the common text sections. The document comparison can be further enhanced by dividing the document into document segments and comparing the document segments; whereas, the conversion of paper-based documents likewise can be improved by comparing the resultant electronic document with a library of standard phrases, sentences, and paragraphs. The document processing system thereby enables an image of the document to be manipulated, as desired, to facilitate its review.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Pricewaterhousecoopers LLP
    Inventors: Lever Wang, Glenn Ricart, Cynthia Ann Thompson, Keith Wishon, Sheldon Laube
  • Patent number: 8266252
    Abstract: A process for viewing a selected portion of a document on a mobile communication device without having to request multiple pages of the document contents containing document global properties applied to the selected part of the document, comprising marking pages of the document within a server, based on size required by the mobile device, associating properties and attributes of the selected portion with the pages, and transmitting the pages with the properties and attributes for display by the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Jianwei Oliver Yuan, Olav A. Sylthe
  • Patent number: 8255832
    Abstract: When an N-upped paper document was viewed by previewing, visibility thereof was poor because contents corresponding to N pages are displayed collectively. Expansion thereof for improving the visibility makes the operability poor. An image processing device of the present invention includes: a determining unit for determining whether or not image data corresponding to an inputted document is image data of an N-up document in which contents corresponding to N pages (N?2) are arranged in one page; a first thumbnail generating unit for generating a first thumbnail of 1-up that is a thumbnail of any of the N pages when the image data corresponding to the inputted document is determined to be the image data of the N-up document by the determining unit; and a display unit for preview-displaying the first thumbnail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuushi Sato
  • Patent number: 8243321
    Abstract: A data acquisition unit that acquires data from a server, a generation unit that generates a first document that has been laid out by merging the data into a template that describes layout information, a rendering unit that renders the first document that has been laid out to obtain a document for output, and a document association unit that associates a document set, the first document that has been laid out and the document for output are comprised. The rendering unit renders a second document that has been laid out obtained by editing the first document that has been laid out to obtain a second document for output, and the document association unit associates the document set, the second document that has been laid out and the second document for output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirokazu Oi
  • Publication number: 20120198330
    Abstract: The invention relates to systems and methods for providing electronic books. According to one embodiment, the invention provides an electronic book file converter system. The file converter system has an input for receiving an electronic book file in a first format. The first format file includes a text portion representing text of a printed book version. A page transition detector detects page transitions in the printed book version. A page transition marker inserts a page transition indicator in the first format file at each detected on. In that manner the converter system converts the first format file to a second format file. The page transition indicators in the second format file enable an electronic book reading device to paginate an electronic book in accordance with page numbers of the printed book version.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Inventors: Josh Koppel, John Lema
  • Patent number: 8214736
    Abstract: The system relates to identifying critical textual passages that influence the pagination of electronic documents such that the addition or removal of text to these critical passages will have the effect of shortening or lengthening the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Screenplay Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Michael Greenfield, Christopher Neal Huntley
  • Patent number: 8196030
    Abstract: A document processing system for accurately and efficiently analyzing documents and methods for making and using same. Each incoming document includes at least one section of textual content and is provided in an electronic form or as a paper-based document that is converted into an electronic form. Since many categories of documents, such as legal and accounting documents, often include one or more common text sections with similar textual content, the document processing system compares the documents to identify and classify the common text sections. The document comparison can be further enhanced by dividing the document into document segments and comparing the document segments; whereas, the conversion of paper-based documents likewise can be improved by comparing the resultant electronic document with a library of standard phrases, sentences, and paragraphs. The document processing system thereby enables an image of the document to be manipulated, as desired, to facilitate its review.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
    Inventors: Lever Wang, Glenn Ricart, Cynthia Ann Thompson, Keith Wishon, Sheldon Laube
  • Patent number: 8184128
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a data distribution system which is suitable to distribute data to a mobile terminal device and the like to cause the mobile terminal device and the like to display an image, and a method therefor. In response to a request from a mobile communication device (2) through a web page distribution server (5), a web server (12) distributes document data shown in FIG. 2 to the web page distribution server (5). The web page distribution server (5) creates an image of the distributed document data, and divides the created image into a plurality of areas to thereby create divided area data. In response to the request from the mobile communication device (2), the webpage distribution server (5) sequentially distributes such components of the created divided area data as are to be actually displayed, to the mobile communication device (2). The mobile communication device (2) sequentially displays the divided area data distributed from the web page distribution server (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.
    Inventor: Makoto Okita
  • Patent number: 8179555
    Abstract: A method of producing a customized document with a printing and finishing system includes registering a capability of the printing and finishing system, designing at least one intelligent template for the customized document based on the capability of the printing and finishing system, customizing the at least one intelligent template based on the capability of the printing and finishing system, including creating an intelligent document, and producing the customized document with the printing and finishing system based on the intelligent document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Rafael Antonio Martinez Ponce