US 2017/0365083 A1 · AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING AND DISPLAYING OBJECTS OF INTEREST IN A GRAPHIC NOVEL

Abstract

Locations and presentation orders of objects of interest (e.g., speech bubbles) in digital graphic novel content are identified such that expanded versions of the objects of interest can be presented to a reader. Specifically, digital graphic novel content is received and locations of interest regions (e.g., rectangular text regions of speech bubbles) in the content are identified by applying a machine-learned model to the content. Locations and presentation orders of objects of interest in the digital graphic novel content are identified based on the identified locations of the interest regions. The digital graphic novel content and presentation metadata including the locations and presentation orders of the objects of interest are provided to a reading device such that expanded versions of the objects of interest are presented to the user in accordance with the presentation metadata.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method of providing digital graphic novel content to a reading device, the method comprising:

receiving digital graphic novel content;
identifying locations of a plurality of interest regions of the digital graphic novel content by applying a model to the digital graphic novel content;
identifying locations and presentation orders of a plurality of objects of interest in the digital graphic novel content based on the identified locations of the plurality of interest regions;
creating presentation metadata for the digital graphic novel content indicating the identified locations and presentation orders of the plurality of objects of interest;
and
providing the digital graphic novel content and the presentation metadata to the reading device for presentation of expanded versions of the plurality of objects of interest in accordance with the presentation metadata.

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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing executable computer program instructions for providing digital graphic novel content to a reading device, the computer program instructions comprising:

receiving digital graphic novel content;
identifying locations of a plurality of interest regions of the digital graphic novel content by applying a model to the digital graphic novel content;
identifying locations and presentation orders of a plurality of objects of interest in the digital graphic novel content based on the identified locations of the plurality of interest regions;
creating presentation metadata for the digital graphic novel content indicating the identified locations and presentation orders of the plurality of objects of interest;
and
providing the digital graphic novel content and the presentation metadata to the reading device for presentation of expanded versions of the plurality of objects of interest in accordance with the presentation metadata.

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A server for providing digital graphic novel content to a reading device, comprising:

a processor for executing computer program instructions;
and
a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer program instructions executable to perform steps comprising:
receiving digital graphic novel content;
identifying locations of a plurality of interest regions of the digital graphic novel content by applying a model to the digital graphic novel content;
identifying locations and presentation orders of a plurality of objects of interest in the digital graphic novel content based on the identified locations of the plurality of interest regions;
creating presentation metadata for the digital graphic novel content indicating the identified locations and presentation orders of the plurality of objects of interest;
and
providing the digital graphic novel content and the presentation metadata to the reading device for presentation of expanded versions of the plurality of objects of interest in accordance with the presentation metadata.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Automatically identifying and displaying objects of interest in a graphic novel

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Automatically identifying and displaying objects of interest in a graphic novel

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Abstract

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