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The present invention facilitates the specification and distribution of templated content materials by a content provider over an information exchange network such as the Internet. The present invention incorporates a system for managing inventories of graphical elements and their relationships to pre-defined page templates. A database capable of keeping track of users and their corresponding access privileges within the system is employed to monitor user activity. Ultimately, through the use of a software component delivered over the Internet for use within standard web browsers, end-users are able to populate templates under the constraints imposed by the rules of the manufacturers at the time of template design. These population elements which “fill in the blanks” of the pre-defined templates may be either of type IMAGE or TEXT. Image regions are populated by choosing from a subset of the entire image inventory, while TEXT types can be completely free form, with specific rules guiding justification, point size, font, and leading, or “fill in the blank” form with the same constraint rules as free form. Once the end user has met all of the criteria for a fully populated template, the system provides sophisticated means for downloading a high resolution file (such as a print-ready file or other file representation of the composed publication) which encapsulates all resources needed (layout, images, fonts, and constraint geometries) to fulfill the requirements of the publication. The downloaded file may be printed or published by electronic transfer, e.g., to a publisher for printing of the actual publication.

Web pages are displayed with a simultaneous overview and magnified view. An indicator can show the portion of the overview in the magnified view. Both views can be shown, one above the other, across the full width of the same screen. A user can select between such a split view and another view, including an overview-only view, a magnified-only view, and a view in which selected text is laid out to fit the width of the magnified view. Navigational input can directly move the layout in the magnified view or the cursor, and can scroll both the overview and magnified view. The magnified view can display text with antialiased fonts designed for its resolution. The magnified view can be made to function like a magnifying glass. The width of text in multicolumn layouts can be limited to fit the width of a view window, such as the magnified-view.

At least certain embodiments of the present disclosure include a method to identify top hits in search result based on learned user preferences. In one embodiment, an editor receives a user selection of a font to be used in a document when the user is composing the document using the editor. The editor invokes a font recommendation engine. Based on the font selected, the font recommendation engine automatically recommends a set of one or more fonts to the user according to a statistical model of font usage.

A user interface for parsing unstructured data using pattern recognition. The patterns used in parsing data are formed from regular expressions. The parsed data may be displayed in a first format and unmatched strings in the unstructured text may be displayed in a second format. A format may comprise a desired color, font or any other user interface parameter. In addition, the data that parses according to a pattern may be placed in a column associated with the pattern in a tabular user interface, for example a spreadsheet like Excel™. Associating a pattern with a position to display successful matches in allows for breaking unstructured text into pieces associated with a particular field or column. Modification of the patterns allows for more and more of the unstructured text to match the patterns and when the data has been parsed to the desired level, the data may be imported into a database.

Optical character recognition (OCR) for images such as a street scene image is generally a difficult problem because of the variety of fonts, styles, colors, sizes, orientations, occlusions and partial occlusions that can be observed in the textual content of such scenes. However, a database query can provide useful information that can assist the OCR process. For instance, a query to a digital mapping database can provide information such as one or more businesses in a vicinity, the street name, and a range of possible addresses. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, this mapping information is used as prior information or constraints for an OCR engine that is interpreting the corresponding street scene image, resulting in much greater accuracy of the digital map data provided to the user.

Methods and systems for displaying information related to securities to a user are provided. In an embodiment, a method may include storing securities quotes in a memory of a computer. The method may include receiving quote updates information. The received quote update information and the quotes stored in the memory of the computer may be compared via one or more criteria. For bid quotes, a first criterion may include determining if a quote stored in the memory of the computer is greater than the price of a quote update. For ask quotes, the first criterion may include determining if a quote stored in the memory of the computer is less than the price of a quote update. A second criterion may include determining if a timestamp associated with the quote update minus a timestamp associated with the quote stored in the memory of the computer is greater than a predetermined threshold time. If one or more of the criteria are met, the method may modify the quote in the memory of the computer. Modifying the quote may include, but is not limited to: changing a display color, changing a font style, inhibiting the quote from being displayed, and deleting the quote from the memory of the computer.

Methods and systems are provided for dynamically generating and displaying previews of documents or templates of interest to a user. As a user provides or selects customized designs or themes, including color themes, font types, images, and the like, previews of one or more documents or templates to which the user selected designs or themes are applied are dynamically generated and are displayed to allow the user to select an actual document or template for use.

A method is provided for displaying a page formed of discrete elements, such as a Web page, on different computing devices. The method converts the page into a semantic thumbnail, which preserves the overall appearance of the page and displays readable text segments that enable a user to identify main areas of the page. The semantic thumbnail is adaptable to different screen sizes and target font sizes. The method enlarges unreadable text segments in a miniature version of the page. The method also trims the enlarged text segments to fit the width of the semantic thumbnail by summarizing or cropping text in the enlarged text segments.

A method and system for publishing a plurality of books for user access includes selecting a plurality of books, converting each book from a layout or publication digital data form, by providing and applying a tool to detect characteristic features (such as layout, typeface, and hierarchical or organizational features such as chapter headings, captions, drawings and tables), and extracting text or data information of the book tagged with the features. This produces a searchable publishing database indexed by book structure such that a user may remotely, access the database, search desired text data, and view an image of a portion of the book with the desired data. A search engine may score search results based on their position in the hierarchy or other factors, determining degree of relevance of text or data information located by the search engine.

A style identifier is associated with each of a plurality of media clips stored in a database, based on a subjective evaluation of various characteristics of each media clip by an expert. The style represented by the style identifier corresponds to an impression on the expert regarding various qualities of the media clip and is not constrained by the subject of the media clip. Media clips with which style identifiers are associated can be any form of digital media, such as clip art files, sound files, photographs, animation files, fonts, etc. Also associated with each media clip in the database is an absolute ranking value for each of a plurality of different attributes based on a subjective evaluation of each media clip by an expert. A user can search the database for media clips associated with a specific style identifier and can sort the media clips that were identified by a search, based upon the absolute ranking value for a selected attribute. In one application of this invention, the database is maintained at a web site accessible over the Internet, and users can browse or search the database based upon a selected category, a keyword, or a style. The results of browsing or searching the database can be selectively sorted in regard to a selected attribute. Thus, with this invention, a user can more readily identify an appropriate media clip that is suitable for an intended use.

In various embodiments of the present invention, documents (such as PDF documents) are converted into HTML 5 (and CSS 3) formats and integrated into existing HTML 5 web pages in a manner that preserves the original fonts embedded within the documents. The fonts can also be integrated or embedded (e.g., via the standard HTML “iframe” tag) into other web pages. The original appearance of the source document is maintained, the text is preserved as searchable text, and the document is integrated into a web page that can be searched, zoomed, scrolled, printed, etc., utilizing standard web browser controls. As a result, a significantly increased “ad inventory” is enabled, wherein advertisements can be integrated between the individual pages (or even within a page) of the document. In addition, the resulting document (independent of its format) can be passively shared with desired members of a user's external social networks (as well as any social network within the host website), along with other activities and behavior performed by the user on the website hosting the document.

A method is provided for managing fonts in a radio communication terminal, which can receive fonts in order to render contents on a screen. One such method involves the use of the following elements in the terminal, namely: a font database that lists all of the fonts or font portions stored by the terminal and matches at least one management parameter with each of the fonts; and set of font management commands including at least one command, which is applied to a font portion and which belongs to the group containing at least a command for transmitting a font portion for storage in the terminal, a command for updating a font portion stored in the terminal and a command for deleting a font portion stored in the terminal.

A “Character-Level Font Linker” provides character-level linking of fonts via Unicode code-point to font mapping. A lookup table is used to identify glyph-level support for runs of particular characters on a Unicode code-point basis for relative to a set of available fonts. This lookup table enables automatic selection of one or more specific fonts for rendering one or more runs of characters comprising a text string. The lookup table is constructed offline by automatically evaluating glyphs comprising a set of common or default fonts. The table is then used for automatically selecting fonts for rendering text strings. Alternately, the lookup table is generated (or updated) locally to include some or all locally installed fonts. Finally, in another embodiment, if no supporting font is identified in the table for a particular character, the system automatically downloads the necessary glyph from one or more remote servers.

Online publishing tools, which provide browser-based publishing services available through the Internet for preparing content for publication, include a preview interface which generates and displays an accurate representation of the client's work, with proportionately correct size, font, format and positioning, as well as an edit interface which generates a less precise but editable version of the client's work. Preview files used for displaying previews on the preview interface, and which can incorporate edits made on the edit interface, include typesetting information, positioning information, hot zones information, images of text and links to omitted content. Some preview files provide preview information for less than the client's entire document that is being worked on. Interfaces are also used to move and modify sections of content contained in the body of the client's work, of any size, through simple drag and drop processes implemented on elements of a corresponding table of contents.

A method of, and system for, generating an image for use in monitoring interaction between a user and a computer is provided. The method includes generating random reference data wherein the reference data comprises a plurality of characters and randomly selecting a font from one of a plurality of fonts. Each font may comprise a plurality of font images and a font image may be retrieved for each character of the reference data. Thereafter the retrieved font images may be combined. In one embodiment, each font image includes a font background and a user identifiable character defined by removal of the font background so as to define the user identifiable character. In addition or instead, each font image may include a font background including a plurality of font patterns, and a user identifiable character defined by a concentration of the patterns so as to define the user identifiable character.

Methods, systems, and computer program products for presenting a plurality of options for selection. Each option is organized into either a category or a sub-category that is associated with a category. The association between categories and sub-categories is independent of time. Categories are displayed along one axis and sub-categories are displayed simultaneously along another orthogonal axis. The axis chosen for categories may depend on the direction that text associated with the categories is written. Categories and sub-categories are available for immediate selection, without first having to highlight or select any option. To account for a large number of options, categories and sub-categories may scroll as needed. The appearance of categories and sub-categories may be distinguished in some way, such as through colors, fonts, or borders.

Input texts, e.g., electronic text files containing a written work, are received by the invention. Selected visual characteristics of text, such as such as font case, font type, font size, font color, word spacing, and line spacing, are automatically applied to the text and are varied within the text to produce enhanced text. The variation may occur as frequently as character to character, or word to word, sentence to sentence, line to line, paragraph to paragraph, or some other frequency. The resulting enhanced text is visually different from the received text (provided the applied variations are not already present in the received text). The enhanced text is then visually displayed to a reader, as by providing it on a computer monitor or in printed form. The enhanced text, having more visible variety than the received text, is believed to result in greater reading speed, comprehension, and / or interest in people having certain types of reading deficiencies.

The invention discloses a font style migration method based on a conditional cycle consistency generative adversarial network, and the method specifically comprises the steps: building a source font data set and a target font data set, and carrying out the normalization processing along with the data sets; building a font style migration network structure, wherein a network is composed of a generator based on a conditional generative adversarial network and a residual network and a discrimination network based on PatchGAN; inputting source fonts and label pictures into the generator, and generating target style fonts; enabling the discriminator network to perform authenticity discrimination on the generated target font and the real target font corresponding to the generated target font, optimizing the Chinese character migration network by means of the idea of adversarial network training to achieve mutual mapping migration of two font styles, reduce manual interference in the font generation process, and improve the automation degree of font generation.

The object of the present invention is to render markup documents within the limits of resolutions smaller than the resolutions for which the documents were originally designed, in most cases without introducing horizontal scrolling, while keeping the original fonts, colors, design, and style. The object is achieved by finding and selecting only elements that are too big, shrinking them individually, and disallowing certain elements to grow table cells under specific circumstances.

Instead of accepting competing ads and using an arbitration function (e.g., an auction) to choose winning ads to be served with a document, sets of ads (perhaps having different characteristics) can be generated, and an arbitration function can be used to select the winning set of ads. Such arbitrations on sets of ads can consider how ads, search results, colors, positions, fonts, etc., all interact with each other and affect the usefulness of the sets of ads to advertisers, end users, document publishers, and / or an ad serving entity.

A method, system, and computer-readable medium are provided for applying a global formatting scheme to a chart in an electronic document. According to a system, a chart application program receives a selection of a chart object in the electronic document and a document theme. The document theme includes a combination of formatting schemes including a color scheme, a font scheme, and a style matrix. The chart application program then automatically applies the selected document theme to the selected chart object in the electronic document. In applying the selected document theme to the selected chart object, the chart application program automatically updates a number of properties of the chart object including color, font, line, effect, and fill. The chart application further enables a user to modify a selected chart style in the document theme by modifying the elements related to the selected chart style and saving the chart type of the selected chart object and the modified chart style as a custom chart template to a file. When a user opens the file, the chart application automatically updates an existing chart template gallery to include the custom chart template.

A user interface and method are provided for allowing text to be previewed in multiple fonts simultaneously. Text in fonts of different types and / or sizes may be previewed in a variety of formats in a single preview area. Formats include real time text entered by the user, paragraph, alphanumeric order and waterfall. The actual text in the paragraph, alphanumeric order and waterfall may be customized by the user.

The invention provides an identification method to identify Chinese printed formula, including analysis of typeface, character recognition and mathematical formula recognition three modules; typeface analysis module two-value pretreats BMP images, split out literal block, image block and list block using projection method combined with bottom-up typeface analysis algorithm, preserve image block and list block; Chinese character recognition module false merge rows against literal block, select segmentation parameters, extract characteristics and recognize Chinese characters, record the rejected results, combine adjacent rejected results in the same row in order to locate formula region; mathematical formula recognition is to extract,divide formula characters in the rejected character region, merger some characters and recognize; finally obtain the relationship between characters through structure analysis of formula characters, and output the final one-dimensional character strings. the identification effect of this invention is famous after test.

The invention relates to an inlaying method and device of digital watermarks in text documents. The method comprises the steps that electronic form text documents are converted to EMF documents, the converted initial EMF documents are opened, document header parameter information is used for setting up corresponding target EMF documents, all GDI functions and parameter information of the GDI functions in the initial EMF documents are all searched, whether the DGI functions are TEXTOUT is judged, if yes, all font information is read and watermark information is inlaid, and then the GDI functions are copied to the target EMF documents, if not, the DGI functions are directly copied to the target EMF documents, and after all the initial EMF documents are processed, all target EMF documents inlaid with the watermark information are subjected to the final output conversion operation. According to the method and device, the problem of watermark information inlaying of various electronic form text documents and paper text documents is solved, and safety monitoring and controlling, source tracing and content protection of important text documents are achieved.

Techniques for determining sentence based interactive topic-based summarization are provided. A text to be summarized is segmented. Discrete keyword, key-phrase, n-gram, sentence and other sentence constituent based summaries are generated based on statistical measures for each text segment. Interactive topic-based summaries are displayed with human sensible omitted text indicators such as alternate colors, fonts, sounds, tactile elements or other human sensible display characteristics useful in indicating omitted text. Individual and / or combinations of discrete keyword, key-phrase, n-gram, sentence, noun phrase and sentence constituent based summaries are dynamically displayed to provide an overview of topic and subtopic development within a text. A hierarchical and interactive display of texts based on the use of discrete sentence constituent based summaries which associates expansible and contractible displayed text provides contextualized access to an interactive topic-based text summary and to an original text.

A system, method and computer program product for visualization of context-based search results, including a plurality of neurons, the neurons being associated with words and documents; a plurality of connections between the neurons; a map that displays at least some of the neurons to a user, wherein the display of the neurons on the map corresponds to their relevance to a search query; a display of the links to the relevant documents; and means for changing positions of the neurons relative to each other based on input from the user. Changing a position of one neuron relative to other neurons also changes positions of other contextually relevant neurons, and displays different relevant documents. The map displays the neurons with their relevance identified by any of font type, color, transparency and font size. The map includes icons in proximity to the displayed word neurons for identifying those neurons as irrelevant. Links to the documents are obtained from a search engine having an input query. The map displays annotations and / or keywords to the documents next to the displayed documents.

A wordspotting system and method are disclosed. The method includes receiving a keyword and, for each of a set of typographical fonts, synthesizing a word image based on the keyword. A keyword model is trained based on the synthesized word images and the respective weights for each of the set of typographical fonts. Using the trained keyword model, handwritten word images of a collection of handwritten word images which match the keyword are identified. The weights allow a large set of fonts to be considered, with the weights indicating the relative relevance of each font for modeling a set of handwritten word images.