Reading method and apparatus
AssigneeBrightpage Technologies Ltd
InventorHoward Farnoush Freemantle MOSHTAEL-OSKUI
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Abstract
A method (100) of displaying a document to a user on a display screen, the document comprising text, wherein the method comprises: displaying (110) an overview of a portion of the document on the display screen; subsequently, sequentially displaying (120), in a predetermined position of the display screen, consecutive units of a selected text portion of the overview of the portion of the document; and simultaneously to displaying a displayed unit of the consecutive units of the selected text portion, displaying (130) context comprising textual context of the displayed unit of the consecutive units.
Claims20
A controller for a display device configured to cause the display device to display a document to a user, the controller comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- a non-transitory computer readable memory storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the controller to:
- display an overview of a portion of the document on a display screen of the display device, the document comprising text;
- subsequently, sequentially display, in a predetermined position of the display screen, consecutive units of a selected text portion of the overview of the portion of the document;
- and
- simultaneously to display of a displayed unit of the consecutive units of the selected text portion, display context comprising textual context of the displayed unit of the consecutive units.
A controller for a display device to cause the display device to display a document to a user, the controller comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- a non-transitory computer readable memory storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the controller to:
- sequentially display, in a predetermined position of a display screen of the display device, consecutive units of a selected text portion of the document;
- and
- display each unit of the consecutive units of the selected text portion for a display period determined, for each unit, in dependence on one or more parameters, separate from a length of the displayed unit, the one or more parameters comprising, at least one of:
- a document formatting parameter associated with at least one of:
- punctuation of the document, one or more paragraphs of the document, one or more headings of the document, text formatting of the document, a layout of the document and metadata of the document, and
- a unit comprehension parameter associated with at least one of:
- natural language processing techniques, a meaning of the unit to be displayed, a readability score of the document, one or more symbols of the unit to be displayed, one or more variables of the unit to be displayed compared to the other units of the document and statistics of the selected text portion.
A controller for a display device to cause the display device to display a document to a user, the controller comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- a non-transitory computer readable memory storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the controller to:
- sequentially display, in a predetermined position of the display screen, consecutive units of a selected text portion of the document;
- and
- in response to a first user input:
- interrupt the sequential display of the consecutive units of the selected text portion of the document in the predetermined position of the display screen,
- determine a first unit in dependence on a factor associated with the user, wherein the first unit is a unit previously displayed on the display screen at a time before the first user input, and
- sequentially display the consecutive units of the selected text portion, beginning from the first unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.