KR20090008747A - Method for reformating contents and recalculating number of pages of electronic book in case of a font size change, and apparatus applied to the same - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for reformatting contents and recalculating the number of pages of an electronic book in case of a font size change, and an apparatus applied to the same are provided to display pages that a user wants to read on a terminal screen without performing processes of reformatting contents or recalculating the page number whenever the user changes the setting about a text of the electronic book. An electronic book viewer terminal apparatus sets change of a text comprising an electronic book(S104). Page break information corresponding to a change of the text is distinguished from at least one page break information embedded in meta data in a container file comprising the electronic book(S106). Reformatting result data including the page break information and recalculating data of a page number are extracted(S108). An output screen of the electronic book reformed based on the reformatting result data and the recalculating data of the page number is displayed on a terminal screen(S112).

Description

FIELD OF REFORMATING CONTENTS AND RECALCULATING NUMBER OF PAGES OF ELECTRONIC BOOK IN CASE OF A FONT SIZE CHANGE, AND APPARATUS APPLIED TO THE SAME}

The present invention relates to a technique related to the execution of the viewer for an e-book, and more particularly, the e-book viewer terminal device whenever there is a user change setting (for example, a change in the size of the text) of the text of the e-book. Content reformatting and renumbering of pages by text change in an e-book to display the page the user wants to view on the terminal screen without delay in loading time due to content reformatting and recalculation of the number of pages It relates to a method for, and a terminal apparatus applied thereto.

The number of people using the Internet is increasing exponentially with the construction of information infrastructure and the improvement of communication environment, and it will continue to increase in the future.

In line with this trend, various commercial transactions are made possible through the Internet, and information can be provided. In addition to this network environment, various multimedia technologies become possible, and general books sold as paper books are also e-books. It is distributed through the Internet.

An electronic book (e-Book) refers to a file published in digital form without the use of paper media for the content of knowledge and information. Such an e-book can be used to read tram books. It can be viewed through a PC equipped with a program or a dedicated mobile phone, and such a device is sometimes called an e-book. In other words, it can refer to all software and hardware media including contents in a broad sense.

One particular field of information access includes electronic books, which are virtual devices that receive documents, publications, or reading materials downloaded from an information network. The user of the e-book can download and read the contents of documents, publications, or reading materials from the affiliated bookstore at the convenience of the user without having to purchase a print edition. When reading documents, publications, or reading materials, e-book users may wish to enlarge or reduce the page size of the reading material to their liking. Thus, it is highly desirable to include a view transition feature that allows a user to increase or decrease the visual representation of a page of reading material or the size of a page display image.

The method includes generating an ebook binary file that includes a plurality of book views, each of the plurality of book views indicative of reading material content of a font having a particular font point size. It contains the information needed to generate the page display image that it represents. The method further includes analyzing the e-book binary file and generating a page display image representing the content of the reading material.

To do the processing in this method, the text information may be text content, text style information, margin and indent definitions, text color information, and other information needed to generate a page display image for an electronic publication, document, or reading material. It may include.

In addition, the text information may include data regarding graphics or images provided on the page. Such graphic or image data may include authentication of the graphic or image and location information that specifies where the graphic or image is located on the page. The layout of the e-book binary file and the text information section stored in these files is as follows.

After the e-book binary file is created, the e-book binary file can be provided as input to the text rendering engine. The text rendering engine parses the ebook binary file and produces a page display view. As defined above, a page display view is a series of page display images consisting of electronic publications, documents, or reading material created using a set of view parameters. Here, the series of view parameters may include the point size of the base font or the dimensions of the display screen or part of the display screen of the e-book provided with the page display image.

The task of analyzing e-book source files and extracting and organizing textual information is required in the process of generating page display images from e-book source files.

As such, when the e-book user executes a view switching function for enlarging or reducing the size of the page according to the preference, the e-book viewer terminal device reformats the content in response to the corresponding view switching every time the function is executed. As the processing for retrieving the number of pages has to be developed, the user cannot view the e-book until the calculation work in the e-book viewer terminal device is completed.

Accordingly, the present invention was created to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide an e-book viewer terminal whenever there is a user's change setting (for example, a change in the size of the text) of the text constituting the e-book. In the e-book for realizing the page display view function that efficiently creates and converts the page that the user wants to view on the terminal screen without delay in loading time due to content reformatting and recalculation of the number of pages executed on the device. The present invention provides a method for reformatting content and recalculating the number of pages by changing the text, and an apparatus applied thereto.

E-book viewer terminal device of the present invention for achieving this purpose is a database unit for storing a container file of the e-book including at least one page classification information corresponding to a preset text change range as a metadata, the text A key input unit for executing a change to the key, and determining the page classification information among the at least one or more page classification information by changing the text set by the execution of the key input, the reformatting result data and the number of pages preset in the page classification information A page change setting unit for extracting the recalculation data of the page and a page reformatting unit for reformatting the e-book output screen based on the reformatting result data and the recalculation data of the number of pages and displaying the same on the terminal screen. Can be.

Therefore, in the present invention, the processing for content reforming and recalculation of the number of pages executed by the e-book viewer terminal device whenever there is a user's change setting (for example, a change in the size of the text) of the text forming the e-book. As the user displays the page to be viewed on the terminal screen without executing, the loading time delay due to the content reforming and reprocessing of the number of pages is minimized as well as the page that the user wants to view. The advantage is that you can implement the Page Display View feature that creates and switches efficiently.

In order to achieve the above object, a method for reformatting content and reproducing the number of pages by changing text in an e-book according to the first aspect of the present invention is provided for (a) an e-book that is being stored by an e-book viewer terminal device. Setting a change of text constituting the e-book based on a viewer execution of the e-book; (b) changing the text among at least one page classification information embedded as metadata in a container file forming the e-book; Determining page classification information corresponding to the step (c) extracting the reformatting result data and the renumbering data of the number of pages included in the page division information; and (d) resetting the reformatting result data and the number of pages. And displaying, on the terminal screen, an e-book output screen that is reshaped based on the calculated data.

Preferably, the step (a) is characterized in that for setting at least one change of the font change and the size change for the text constituting the e-book.

Preferably, the size change of the text is set to a specific size among a size selection width set based on a storage capacity embedded in the container file as metadata.

In addition, the e-book viewer terminal device according to a second aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, the container of the e-book having at least one page classification information corresponding to the preset text change range is embedded as a metadata; A database unit for storing a file, a key input unit for executing a change to the text, and a text change set by execution of a key input are used to determine corresponding page classification information among the at least one or more page division information, and the page classification information. A page change setting unit for extracting the reformatting result data and the recalculation data of the number of pages set in advance, and reformatting the e-book output screen based on the reformatting result data and the recalculation data of the number of pages and displaying them on the terminal screen. It includes a page reformatting unit for It is done.

Preferably, the text change range is at least one of a font change and a size change for the text constituting the e-book, and the size change for the text includes a storage capacity embedded as metadata in the container file. It is characterized in that it is set to a specific size among the width of the preset size selection based on.

Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the e-book viewer terminal device 100 according to the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings in detail as follows.

1 is a block diagram of an e-book viewer terminal device 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the e-book viewer terminal device includes a database unit 110, a key input unit 120, a page change setting unit 130, and a page reformatting unit 140.

In addition, the user's change setting for the text constituting the e-book may be a change for at least one of a font change and a size change. Hereinafter, an e-book output being displayed on the terminal screen by changing the size of the text as an example. The process of reformatting the screen will be described in detail.

The change of the size of the text refers to being set to a size specified by the user among a width of a preset size selection within a range not departing from a storage capacity embedded as metadata in a container file forming an e-book. As a result, since all page classification information corresponding to the text size that the user wants to set can be implemented and cannot be embedded in the container file as metadata, the width of the selection of the preset size can be set to any one of the maximum, middle, and minimum values. It is preferably implemented to select one.

The database unit 110 pre-stores at least one e-book, and the e-book is a container file that embeds at least one or more page classification information corresponding to the size selection width of the text as metadata, wherein the text size When the width of the selection is implemented as the maximum, the middle, and the minimum, the at least one or more page division information is also implemented in three respectively corresponding to the maximum, middle, and minimum.

The page change setting unit 130 determines the page classification information corresponding to the text size set by the user to execute the key input, and reformats the reformatting result data and the recalculation data of the number of pages preset in the page classification information. The extracted information is transferred to the page reformatting unit 140.

Accordingly, the page reformatting unit 140 executes the display by reforming the e-book output screen for replacing the e-book output screen on the terminal screen based on the received reformatting result data and the recalculation data of the number of pages. do.

Furthermore, the page identification information is implemented in XML (eXtensible Markup Language) format, and the format is as follows.

<page_list font = "size =">

<page no = "tagpos =" itempos = "> </ page>

</ page_list>

(However, font: font type designation, size: text size designation, no: page number designation, tagpos: tag position used at the start of a specific page, itempos: first appearing at the start of a specific page. Item location)

In addition, a specific page may be searched among a plurality of pages forming an e-book by performing XML parsing through the tagpos indicating a tag position for identifying a specific page in the container file.

In addition, the itempos is set to a relative position value within a tag to which an item implemented as text or an image belongs, and the itempos is valid in a tag having text implemented as a plurality of items and is implemented as a single item. Is set to no value.

Hereinafter, the operation of the e-book viewer terminal device 100 according to the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings in more detail as follows.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an operation process of the e-book viewer terminal 100 shown in FIG. 1. As shown in FIG. 2, the method for content reformatting and renumbering of pages by text change in an e-book may previously page content reformatting data and renumbering data of page number corresponding to text size change, respectively. Formed by the information to be stored in the container file constituting the e-book to be distributed in advance, and proceeds while executing the e-book viewer application through the e-book viewer terminal device 100 for storing the e-book distributed in this way ( S100).

Thereafter, the user sets the size change for the text constituting the e-book being executed through the service menu supported from the e-book viewer application (S102), whereby at the selection range for the text size to the maximum, medium and minimum A predetermined size is selected (S104).

If it is set to change the text of the maximum size in step S104, it is determined by extracting the page classification information corresponding to the maximum size (S106), the reformatting result data and the recalculation data of the number of pages previously stored as the determination result Extracts and deletes the e-book output screen being displayed on the terminal screen and reformates the e-book output screen to replace the display and executes the display (S108 to S112).

Although the above has been described with reference to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, those skilled in the art will be variously modified and changed within the scope of the invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention described in the claims below. I can understand that you can.

In addition, the present invention is to execute the page display view function for efficiently creating and switching the page that the user wants to view on the terminal screen without loading time delay, the possibility of commercialization or sales of the device is not only realistically It is an invention with industrial applicability, since it can be clarified.

1 is a block diagram of an e-book viewer terminal device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an operation process of the e-book viewer terminal device illustrated in FIG. 1.

<Description of Symbols for Main Parts of Drawings>

100: e-book viewer terminal 110: database unit

120: key input unit 130: page change setting unit

140: page reformatting unit

Claims (8)

(A) setting, by the e-book viewer terminal device, a change of text constituting the e-book based on the execution of the viewer for the pre-stored e-book; (B) determining page classification information corresponding to the change of the text among at least one or more page classification information embedded in the container file forming the e-book as metadata; (C) extracting reformatting result data and recalculation data of the number of pages included in the page division information; And (D) displaying the e-book output screen, which is reformed based on the reformatting result data and the recalculation data of the number of pages, on the terminal screen; Method for veterinary release. The method of claim 1, wherein step (a) And changing at least one of a font change and a size change for the text constituting the e-book. 3. The method of claim 2, wherein the size change for the text is For reformatting the content and renumbering the pages by changing the text in the e-book, the size is changed to a specific size among a size selection width set based on the storage capacity embedded as metadata in the container file. Way. The method of claim 1, wherein step (b) The page classification information <page_list font = "size ="> <page no = "tagpos =" itempos = "> </ page> </ page_list> (However, font: font type designation, size: text size designation, no: page number designation, tagpos: tag position used at the start of a specific page, itempos: first appearing at the start of a specific page. Item location) A method for reformatting content and renumbering pages by changing text in an e-book, which is implemented in an XML format. The method of claim 4, wherein the step (b) Reformatting the content and reproducing the number of pages by changing the text in the e-book, characterized in that XML parsing is performed through the tagpos indicating the tag position for identifying the specific page in the container file. Way. The method of claim 4, wherein the step (b) The itempos is set to a relative position value within a tag to which an item implemented as text or an image belongs, and the itempos is valid in a tag having text implemented as a plurality of items, and corresponding to an image implemented as a single item. A method for reformatting content and renumbering pages by changing text in an e-book characterized in that the value is set to no value. A database unit for storing a container file of an e-book including and embedding at least one page classification information corresponding to a preset text change range as metadata; A key input unit for executing a change to the text; A page change for determining corresponding page classification information among the at least one page classification information by changing the text set by execution of a key input, and extracting reformatting result data and recalculation data of the number of pages preset in the page classification information. Setting unit; And And a page reformatting unit for reforming the e-book output screen based on the reformatting result data and the recalculation data of the number of pages and displaying them on the terminal screen. The method of claim 7, wherein the text change range is At least one of a font change and a size change of the text constituting the e-book, wherein the size change of the text is selected from a width of a preset size selection based on storage capacity embedded in the container file as metadata. E-book viewer terminal device characterized in that it is set to a specific size.

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