Textual Content Speed Player Animated Reading System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional readers face difficulty in transitioning to speed reading behavior due to deeply ingrained reading habits, requiring extensive time and practice to recondition their reading skills.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented system that presents text in an animated format, highlighting words or word groups and displaying pictorial representations to recondition readers by combining scanning and cognitive strategies, allowing them to focus on a central point and associate meaning with images, thereby bridging the gap between traditional and speed reading behaviors.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional reading strategy is used with eye repositioning and subvocalization, then reading comprehension is maintained, but reading speed is limited to less than 300 words per minute
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary system that presents text in an animated format with highlighted words and central expressions. This intermediary presentation mode acts as a bridge between traditional reading behavior and speed reading behavior, allowing readers to gradually transition without directly attempting to read at 3000 wpm from the start. The system mediates the transition by controlling the presentation pace and format.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameters of text presentation by displaying text in an animated format with dynamic highlighting and central expression display. This parameter change in presentation mode alters the reading experience from static text to dynamic visual presentation, facilitating the transition to speed reading behavior while maintaining comprehension.
2Productivity
If speed reading strategy is used with fixed eyes and picture recognition, then reading speed increases to 3000 words per minute, but traditional reading behavior must be completely reconditioned which requires extensive time and practice
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by pre-processing the text into an animated presentation format with highlighted words and central expressions before the reader attempts to read. This preliminary preparation of the text presentation reduces the cognitive load and facilitates faster adoption of speed reading techniques without requiring extensive reconditioning time.
Solution Approach 2:
The animated text presentation serves as an intermediary that bridges traditional and speed reading strategies. It allows readers to benefit from speed reading techniques while maintaining the familiarity of structured text presentation, thereby reducing the time required for behavior reconditioning.
3Measurement precision
If eyes are repositioned to project each word on the center of the retina, then word recognition accuracy is maintained, but reading speed is limited by the time required for each repositioning action
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts the essential function of word recognition from the traditional eye repositioning process. By displaying highlighted words and central expressions, the system separates the recognition function from the physical eye movement, allowing accurate recognition without the time-consuming repositioning actions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical eye repositioning system with a visual highlighting system. Instead of relying on physical eye movements to track and recognize words, the system uses dynamic highlighting and central expression display to guide attention, thereby maintaining recognition accuracy while eliminating the speed limitation imposed by mechanical eye repositioning.
4Loss of information
If subvocalization is used to imagine the sound of words, then meaning recognition is triggered, but reading speed is limited by the pace of internal speech
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts the meaning recognition function from the subvocalization process. By displaying highlighted words and central expressions visually, the system separates meaning recognition from internal speech, allowing readers to comprehend text without being limited by the pace of subvocalization.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the acoustic subvocalization mechanism with a visual attention mechanism. Instead of using internal speech to trigger meaning recognition, the system uses visual highlighting and central expression display to guide attention and trigger comprehension, thereby eliminating the speed limitation imposed by the pace of internal speech.
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AI summary
A computer program that plays a user's textual content in an animated format to increase reading speed via reconditioning reading behavior. The computer program: highlights a word being read and positions a copy in the center of the page so a reader can eliminate repositioning their eyes and still satisfy the common scanning strategy's need to have a word projected on the center of the retina while the reader is reconditioned by the highlighting progressing through the text to use the faster scanning strategy of changing the position on the retina being read with eyes fixed; presents a picture representing the word's meaning to recondition users to utilize the faster cognitive strategy of triggering recognition of meaning with a picture; highlights the word for a time calculated using syllables to create a presentation in sync with the natural timing of speech; can play/record a voice speaking the word for creating audible textual presentations enabling the non-reader to enjoy their textual content while learning printed language through context alone.