System to facilitate reading a document
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsJamey Graham, David G. Stork
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Abstract
An automatic reading assistance application for documents available in electronic form. An automatic annotator is provided which finds concepts of interest and keywords. The operation of the annotator is personalizable for a particular user. The annotator is also capable of improving its performance overtime by both automatic and manual feedback. The annotator is usable with any electronic document. Another available feature is a thumbnail image of all or part of a multi-page document wherein a currently displayed section of the document is highlighted in the thumbnail image. Movement of the highlighted area in the thumbnail image is then synchronized with scrolling through the document.
Claims23
A computer-implemented method for annotating an electronically stored document comprising:
- storing first information identifying a plurality of concepts and one or more keywords associated with each concept in said plurality of concepts;
- receiving user input indicating selection of a set of one or more concepts from said plurality of concepts;
- identifying, from said first information, one or more keywords associated with each concept in said set of concepts;
- searching said electronic document to identify locations of said keywords associated with concepts in said set of concepts in said electronic document;
- displaying said electronic document with visual indications of said identified locations;
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- displaying a relevance indicator for each concept in said set of concepts, said relevance indicator indicating relevance of said document to said concept.
A computer program product for annotating an electronically stored document comprising:
- code for storing first information identifying a plurality of concepts and one or more keywords associated with each concept in said plurality of concepts;
- code for receiving user input indicating selection of a set of one or more concepts from said plurality of concepts;
- code for identifying, from said first information, one or more keywords associated with each concept in said set of concepts;
- code for searching said electronic document to identify locations of said keywords associated with concepts in said set of concepts in said electronic document;
- code for displaying said electronic document with visual indications of said identified locations;
- code for displaying a relevance indicator for each concept in said set of concepts, said relevance indicator indicating relevance of said document to said concept;
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- a computer-readable storage medium for storing the codes.
A computer system comprising:
- a processor;
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- a computer-readable storage medium configured to store first information identifying a plurality of concepts and one or more keywords associated with each concept in said plurality of concepts, and configured to store code to be executed by said processor, said code comprising:
- code for receiving user input indicating selection of a set of one or more concepts from said plurality of concepts;
- code for identifying, from said first information, one or more keywords associated with concepts in said set of concepts;
- code for searching an electronic document to identify locations of said keywords associated with concepts in said set of concepts;
- code for displaying said electronic document with visual indications of said identified locations;
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- code for displaying relevance indicators for said concepts in said set of concepts, said relevance indicators indicating relevance of said document to said concepts in said set of concepts.
A computer-implemented method for annotating an electronically stored document comprising:
- storing first information identifying one or more keywords associated with a concept of interest;
- receiving user input indicating selection of said concept of interest;
- analyzing said electronic document to identify locations in said electronic document of said one or more keywords associated with said concept of interest;
- displaying said electronic document with visual indications of said identified locations;
- displaying a marginal notation identifying said locations whose relevance level to said concept of interest exceeds a threshold relevance level value;
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- displaying a relevance indicator for said concept of interest, said relevance indicator indicating relevance of said document to said concept of interest.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.