WO2013190339A1 - Dispositif et procédé pour visualiser des documents électroniques - Google Patents

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WO2013190339A1
WO2013190339A1 PCT/HR2013/000007 HR2013000007W WO2013190339A1 WO 2013190339 A1 WO2013190339 A1 WO 2013190339A1 HR 2013000007 W HR2013000007 W HR 2013000007W WO 2013190339 A1 WO2013190339 A1 WO 2013190339A1
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  • the invention "device and method for electronic document viewing” relates to the devices and the methods for electronic document viewing.
  • This invention provides additional functionalities to devices for electronic document viewing, and devices for electronic document processing by its installation.
  • this invention provides programs for electronic documents viewing, and electronic document processing programs with additional functionality by means of installation of the described method into the program code which is carried out on the computer with the user's screen for display of the electronic document and the computer media reader, where the electronic document is entered.
  • Existing devices and methods for document viewing facilitate viewing of electronic documents on displays and navigation through electronic documents just like with paper documents and books, but they also facilitate some other methods, which are not available with paper documents and books.
  • the existing methods of navigation through electronic documents include: scrolling, graphical zooming, graphical speed-dependent automatic zooming, page thumbnails, bookmarks, hyperlinks, headings, go-to and similar.
  • Graphical zooming of electronic documents includes zoom-in and zoom-out functionality. Graphical zoom-in shows more detail. Graphical zoom-out shows less detail and a larger area of an electronic document. In the case when it concerns textual electronic documents, graphical zooming is usually achieved by changing of the font size.
  • Existing devices and methods of electronic document viewing do not facilitate zooming of the content or selection of parts of the electronic document content based on the criterion of importance of parts of the electronic document. Apart from this, they do not facilitate the viewing of only the parts of an electronic document selected by its importance. Furthermore, they do not enable navigation, printing, selection, search and other functions through the electronic document on only the parts of the electronic document selected by their importance.
  • SOLUTION SOUGHT It is necessary to facilitate that the devices and methods for electronic document viewing, by using information about the importance or classification of each particular part of the electronic document, enable the user to select all or only specific parts of the electronic document.
  • the selected parts of the electronic document are “active content” of the electronic document at that point. Only “active content” of the electronic document is shown on the user's screen, and not the whole electronic document content.
  • the printing, selection, search and navigation functions within the document act only upon the "active content” of the electronic content and not on the whole electronic document.
  • Active content is a subset of the whole content. In that way, the user is enabled to work on a shorter document, thus increasing the efficiency and speed of some operations, such as search. What is more, the user is able to print a shorter version of the document, containing only the content which is important to him at that point.
  • the subjects of the invention are device and the method for viewing electronic documents, marked in such a way as to have a working mode "active view”.
  • electronic document “active content” is used, which is dynamically formed as a subset of the whole electronic document.
  • the user can switch on or off the "active view” working mode, or it can be arranged for "active view” to be permanently switched on.
  • each part of the document to a particular "importance level” is determined by means of loading of the "importance level” from the document if the level is inscribed in the electronic document, or it is determined on the basis of the existing document formatting, where the "importance level” does not exist in the electronic document.
  • Each of the importance levels can be either active or inactive, depending on the user's selection.
  • Electronic document "active content” consists of electronic document parts which belong to active levels at that moment.
  • the invention can be installed in devices and programs for electronic document viewing, as well as in devices and programs for electronic document processing.
  • Devices for electronic document viewing or processing show the electronic document on the user's device screen.
  • Programs for electronic document viewing or processing show the electronic document on the screen of the computer on which they are being used.
  • Importance levels in each particular document represent the user's selection.
  • the importance of document parts can also be considered as classification of electronic document parts.
  • Selection of active levels in an electronic document is made by the zooming of the content and selection of the content, for which it is essential that all parts of the electronic document also have information about to which particular importance level they belong.
  • the term of content zooming in this invention represents the zooming of electronic document content based on the importance of electronic document parts. It is not important here whether graphic zooming is also carried out. In describing and clarifying of this patent, it is supposed that graphic zooming is not carried out. Of course, in practical realization of the invention, it is also possible to combine graphic zooming with content zooming.
  • level 1 the highest possible level in the document.
  • level 3 can have a name "definitions of important notions”. The user or the manufacturer can define the number of levels.
  • Information about the importance of a particular part of an electronic document is either additional information inscribed in the electronic document as "importance level", or the existing information about formatting of electronic document parts are used for determination of the "importance levels”.
  • Information about the importance of the content can be unchangeable or changeable by the user who views the electronic document.
  • the information about the importance of a particular part of an electronic document is additional information inscribed into the electronic document, it means that, for already existing types of document, e.g. doc, docx, pdf or Kindle book format, the internal format of inscription of the electronic document must be modified by means of adding information concerning the importance of a part of the electronic document.
  • the information must be at the level of the smallest information in the electronic document. In a textual electronic document, as a rule, it is a character.
  • a device or program which uses the information about the importance inscribed in an electronic document has the possibility of reading that information and optionally also a possibility of inscription of that information.
  • an electronic document which has built-in information about levels can have a possibility of allowing or disallowing changes and inscription of importance level data in order to allow or disallow a change to the importance levels inscribed in that electronic document.
  • the device or program must ban changing of information about importance levels if it is disallowed for that document.
  • the electronic document format needs to contain or electronic document standard format should be modified in such a way as to contain: data about importance "importance level" at the level of the smallest information in the document
  • the electronic document standard format in this invention designates a document format which in its format does not have above the listed information.
  • the electronic document modified format in this invention designates a document format which in its format has the data "importance level” and, optionally, also "importance level names” and “allow importance level change”.
  • Some of the existing devices and programs for viewing or processing of electronic documents in a standard format have information about electronic document formatting which can be used as information about importance upon realization of this invention. Should existing information about formatting be used, it is essential to facilitate joining of formatting with importance levels.
  • This joining of formatting with importance levels is saved as parameters for device or program use.
  • the parameters can be defined in advance by the manufacturer either in the device or in the program, or the user can freely define, enter and save. For example, it is possible to, in the device or in the program, define in advance that text marked with a yellow color has the importance of level 1, that text marked with a green color has the importance of level 2, and that all the remaining text has the importance of level 3.
  • This joining of formatting and styles with the importance levels is saved as parameters for device or program use.
  • the user or the manufacturer can define the number of importance levels, joining of formatting with importance levels and determine the default level for content for which there is no defined joining. By zooming and level selection, active importance levels are defined, thus also the "active content" of an electronic document.
  • the functions for zooming and for level selection influence the amount of the "active content" in the way that they activate or deactivate a specific importance level.
  • electronic document parts which belong to that level constitute a part of the document "active content”. For example, if an electronic document has levels 1, 2, 3 and 4 and the levels 1 and 2 are active, then only the parts of an electronic document which belong to the levels 1 and 2, constitute the "active content”.
  • the electronic document "active content” and not the whole content is shown on the display.
  • the functions for printing, selection, search and navigation are adjusted in the way that they only act upon the "active content" of an electronic document.
  • Zooming of the content and selection of electronic document content is carried out with the afore-listed functions, installed in the program or device.
  • zooming the content of an electronic document which contains information about the importance of document parts, the following functions are possible: “zoom-in”, “zoom-out”, “level-down” and “level-up”.
  • the function "zoom-in” increases the number of active importance levels, i.e. increases the quantity of the "active content". Apart from the importance levels which are already active, the function "zoom-in” activates also the highest inactive level, which is lower than the active ones. For example, if level 1 is the highest level and levels 1 and 2 are currently active, after the function "zoom-in", levels 1, 2 and 3 will be active.
  • the function "zoom-out” decreases the number of active importance levels, i.e. decreases the quantity of the "active content”. Out of active importance levels, the function "zoom-out” deactivates the lowest level. For example, if level 1 is the highest level and currently levels 1, 2 and 3 are active, after the function "zoom-out", levels 1 and 2 will be active.
  • the function "level-down” leaves the same number of levels active, but deactivates the highest out of active importance levels and activates the highest inactive importance level which is lower out of the active ones. For example, if level 1 is the highest level and currently levels 2 and 3 are shown, after the function "level-down", levels 3 and 4 will be active.
  • the function "level-up” leaves the same number of levels active, but deactivates the lowest out of active importance levels and activates the lowest inactive level, which is higher out of the active ones. For example, if level 1 is the highest level and currently levels 2 and 3 are active, after the function "level-up", levels 1 and 2 will be active.
  • the function "activate-level” works in such a way as to activate the selected level.
  • the function "deactivate-level” works in such a way as to deactivate the selected level.
  • the functions "activate-level” and “deactivate-level” enable the user to activate and thus show only the desired selected importance levels within an electronic document. For example, it enables the user to, out of levels 1, 2, 3 and 4, to activate and show on display, for example, levels 1 and 4, or any other combination on the user's screen.
  • the function "show-importance”, on the electronic document shows the importance of each particular part shown on the user's screen. Showing of the importance of a particular part is achieved by additional formatting of the parts of an electronic document.
  • the function "hide-importance”, on the electronic document hides the importance of each particular part shown on the user's screen, by not applying additional formatting.
  • a device or a program which uses information about importance, inscribed in an electronic document i.e. which uses a modified format, having implemented functions "show- importance” and "hide-importance”, has a possibility to define the parameter of formatting for the visual illustration of each importance level.
  • the method of formatting for the visual illustration can be defined in advance in device or a program by the manufacturer, or the user can define it. The user or the manufacturer can, for each particular level, define the method of formatting of a part of an electronic document which belongs to that level.
  • Figure 1 shows the appearance of the user display described in example 1.
  • the invention “device and method for electronic document viewing” can be installed in devices and programs for viewing of electronic documents, as well as in devices and programs for electronic document processing.
  • EXAMPLE 1 example of installation of the invention in portable device for viewing of electronic documents with a modified format Following this, there are two more examples of possible use:
  • EXAMPLE 2 example of installation of the invention in a portable device for viewing of electronic documents with a standard format
  • Example 1 is an example of installation of the invention in a portable device for viewing of electronic documents with a modified format.
  • the device can work with electronic documents in a modified format, that is the document format contains "importance level”, " level importance names” and "allow importance level change"
  • the device has the working mode "active view"
  • the device can read information about the importance of a part of an electronic document
  • the device can enter into the electronic document the information about the importance of a part of an electronic document - the device has a factory installed number of importance levels parameters
  • the device has factory installed settings for text formatting for display of each importance level
  • the device can read from the document "allow level importance changes" of a part of an electronic document
  • the device dynamically creates "active content" as a subset of the whole document, based on each particular part of an electronic document belonging to a specific importance level and on currently active "importance levels"
  • the device only shows the electronic document "active content" on the user's screen and not the whole document content.
  • the invention is realized using the following changes in the book format and content with installed importance tags, which can be purchased for the reader:
  • the device in this case a portable document reader, has the following factory installed parameters:
  • level formatting method - the device marks the levels using colors:
  • Figure 1 shows the appearance of the device user display 10, the area for showing of the electronic document 11, and the toolbar 12. At the bottom of the screen, under the document, the toolbarl2 for activation of the functions described in this patent is shown.
  • the icon “importance illustration” 13 serves to show the importance level of a part of the document by means of additional formatting on the display.
  • the functionalities "show-importance” and “hide-importance” are realized.
  • the icon and the document view are changed.
  • the icon When the icon is active, the electronic document levels are shown on the display by means of additional text formatting.
  • the icon When the icon is inactive , the electronic document levels are not shown on the display.
  • the icons 14 "search magnifying glass” and “checkmark” 15 serve for selection of one of the two methods of active level selection. At any moment, only one of the icons 14 and 15 can be active. By pressing with finger on one of the icons 14 or 15, the touched icon becomes active and the other icon becomes inactive.
  • the icon 14 is active, the level selection is made by the zooming of the content, i.e. by the functions: “zoom-in” and “zoom-out”, “level-down” and "level-up”.
  • the zooming functions are activated using the touch screen and two-finger movement.
  • the icon 15 is active on the toolbar, the selection of active levels is possible for each level separately, by which the functions "activate-level” and “deactivate-level” are realized.
  • the level activation and deactivation is made using the functions "zoom-in”, “zoom-out”, “level-down” and “level-up”.
  • the icons "level active” 16, 17, 18 and 19 show whether the level is active or not. Each icon represents one level: icon 16 "level 1 active”, icon 17 “level 2 active”, icon 18 "level 3 active", icon 19 "level 4 active”. If a level is active, the corresponding icon is active. If a level is inactive, the corresponding icon is inactive. When the icon 15 is active, then the level activation and deactivation are made using the functions "activate-level” and "deactivate-level".
  • each icon represents one level: icon 16 "level 1 active”, icon 17 “level 2 active”, icon 18 "level 3 active”, icon 19 "level 4 active”. If a level is active, the corresponding icon is active. If a level is inactive, the corresponding icon is inactive.
  • the color display facilitates that icons 16, 17, 18 and 19 are in color, of the same color as the text of a particular level. For example: level 1 - icon 16 - yellow color, etc. This makes work easier for the user.
  • Example 2 is an example of the installation of the invention into a portable device for viewing of electronic documents with a standard format.
  • a standard electronic document format is used, i.e. electronic documents do not have an internal inscription format modified in a way which would facilitate inscription of information about the importance of a part of the electronic document.
  • the device allocates the importance level on the basis of formatting and the installed parameters of joining of formatting and levels
  • the device dynamically creates "active content” as a subset of the whole document, based on each particular part of an electronic document belonging to a specific importance level and on the basis of currently active "importance levels"
  • the device shows only the electronic document "active content” on the user screen and not the whole document content
  • Example 3 is an example of the installation of the invention into the document processing program on the computer with standard format. Let us presume that a reader studies from a book in paper form. As the reader reads the book, he uses yellow highlighter to mark the most important definitions and concepts. Upon his/her second reading, for example, in order to revise and memorize the material, the reader pages the book, reading only the parts highlighted in yellow. Only in the event that he needs to check additional explanations and/or examples, the reader also reads the remaining text, next to the yellow highlighted text.
  • the invention described in this document enables the reader to, in a considerably easier, faster and more efficient way have the insight into the highlighted text, i.e. the text which is important to him/her and to, much easier and more efficiently, navigate through the document in search for an important definition.
  • the invention is realized by installment of the following functionalities into the program:
  • the user can enter and save the parameter number of importance levels
  • the user can enter and save the parameter default level for the electronic document content, for which a defined joining of formatting with levels does not exist
  • the program determines to which "importance level" each electronic document part belongs on the basis of the existing formatting of that part of the document and on the basis of joining of formatting with levels.
  • the document part for which the joining formatting-level exists belongs to that joined level.
  • the document part for which there is no joining formatting-level belongs to the default level.
  • the program dynamically creates "active content” as a subset of the whole document, based on each particular part of an electronic document belonging to a specific importance level and on currently active "importance levels"
  • the program shows only the electronic document "active content” on the user screen and not the whole document content
  • the reader wishes to read only the highlighted parts and, only if necessary, the remaining text. In order to realize this, the reader should do the following:
  • the user After the user has highlighted important parts of the electronic document in the manner quoted in the example, the user felt the need to find an explanation and a definition for a specific term which he knows is contained somewhere in the electronic document. For example, the user is looking for the text "search method definition". In order to find it, the user opens the electronic document, activates levels 1, 2, and 3 with the "zoom-out” function, thus reducing the "active content” in relation to the whole content, finds the required definition using the function of computer or manual text search and reads it. In the event that he/she needs additional information, he/she uses the function "zoom-in", increases the "active content” and displays the rest of the text surrounding the definition.
  • a panel for active level selection is installed into the user interface in order to enable him/her a simple and well laid out level activation for selection of active levels.
  • the panel contains a list of all levels and has the possibility to activate and deactivate each of the levels by means of a check box by the name of each level.

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L'invention « Dispositif et procédé pour visualiser des documents électroniques » concerne des dispositifs et des procédés permettant la visualisation de documents électroniques. L'invention permet à l'utilisateur de déterminer de façon dynamique quelles parties du document électronique qu'il est en train de visualiser ou traiter, constituent un contenu actif. Seul le contenu actif est affiché à l'écran. De plus, des fonctions telles que l'impression, la sélection, la recherche et la navigation dans le document fonctionnent uniquement sur la partie active du document électronique et pas sur l'intégralité du document électronique. L'invention peut être installée sur des dispositifs et des programmes d'affichage de documents électroniques, ainsi que sur des dispositifs et des programmes de traitement de documents électroniques. L'invention peut être également être mise en oeuvre avec des documents électroniques existants tels que : des documents Microsoft Word, des documents Adobe PDF, des livres Kindle, etc. dans un format standard ou dans un format modifié. Lorsqu'il n'est pas possible ou économique de modifier le format existant de l'inscription du document électronique, il est possible de mettre en oeuvre cette invention avec le format standard, mais avec une fonctionnalité et une flexibilité légèrement inférieures.
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