Methods and systems for incrementally changing text representation
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsBenjamin B. Bederson, Lance E. Good, Mark J. Stefik
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Abstract
To reduce required display space, a text segment is reduced in size by successively eliminating portions of the text segment in an animated fashion. The reduction is thus visually represented in a way that maintains recognizability of the text segment, even if the final representation of the text does not carry a full meaning and/or is not independently comprehensible, because of the impression left in the mind of the user by the animated reduction of the text segment. The reduction may include reducing a size of text of the text segment and/or a spacing between characters of the text segment.
Claims14
A method of incrementally changing text representation, comprising:
- obtaining a text segment;
- and
- reducing space occupied by the text segment by successively eliminating portions of the text segment, the reduction being displayed using animation.
An incremental text change representation system, comprising:
- a controller that reduces space occupied by the text segment on a display device by successively eliminating portions of the text segment, the reduction being displayed on the display device using animation.
The method he letters are reduced by at least one of eliminating vowels, replacing the word with a predetermined abbreviation, replacing the word with a stem, replacing the word with an idiosyncratic spelling of the word, and eliminating double letters.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.