Methods, Systems, and Computer Program Products for Navigating a Sequence of Illustrative Scenes within a Digital Production

Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer program products which enhance the use of digitized content by users are described. The methods, systems, and computer program products include causing portions of the content to be adjusted in size according to dimensions which would best facilitate electronic review of the content. The methods, systems, and computer program products include preparing illustrated content for navigation, specifying dimensions for areas within content collections such as pages and orders for viewing the areas, and correlating the specified dimensions and the specified order with instructions for rendering an enhanced view of the content areas. In some embodiments, the illustrated content comprises a digitized comic book.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11 / 527,095, filed Sep. 25, 2006, incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.COPYRIGHT NOTICE[0002]A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains material, which is subject to copyright protection. The copyright owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by anyone of the patent document or the patent disclosure, as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office patent files or records, but otherwise reserves all copyright rights whatsoever.REFERENCE TO COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTING APPENDIX[0003]A Computer Program Listing Appendix is submitted herewith as text files, the files of which are incorporated herein by reference. The filename, date, and size for the submitted files include:[0004]as-frame1.txt, 18 Dec. 2006, 8 KB;[0005]as-inits.txt, 18 Dec. 2006, 2 KB;[0006]as-loaders.txt, 18 Dec. 2006, 6 KB;[0007]normal_page_init.txt, 18 Dec. 2006, 1 KB...

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Problems solved by technology

One drawback from such an approach is that illustrated works such as comics often contain tremendous detail and color in the drawings as well as small text which may be difficult to see, much less appreciate, without dramatically enlarging the image through the software program processing the image.

This is made particularly difficult because the size, shape and positioning of panels on a comic book page vary from page to page, at the whim of the illustrator.

The need for the reader to continuously adjust and re-adjust the software settings and scroll around the page reduces the overall enjoyment of reading the content in digitized form.

The need to constantly re-adjust scaling settings while reading a digitized comic book significantly reduces the enjoyment of the digitized work as compared to the paper format.

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