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US 8,943,408 B2Granted
Text image review process
AssigneeAdobe Systems Incorporated
InventorsRoey Horns, Michael Burbidge
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Abstract
Techniques that facilitate review of bitmapped representations of text in a file are described. In some embodiments, one or more signals representative of cursor movements over a bitmapped representation of text in a bitmap image may be received. One or more selected text elements may be determined based on the cursor movements. Determining may include searching a data structure, separate from the bitmap image, which includes information regarding text element locations corresponding to the bitmapped text representation in the bitmap image. A portion of the bitmapped representation of text corresponding to the determined selected text elements may be highlighted.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving one or more signals representative of cursor movements over a bitmapped representation of text in a bitmap image, wherein the cursor movements are applied directly to the bitmap image;
- determining one or more selected text elements based on the cursor movements, wherein said determining includes searching a data structure that includes information regarding text element locations corresponding to the bitmapped text representation in the bitmap image, wherein the data structure is separately stored from the bitmap image, and wherein the data structure is generated upon creation of the bitmap image;
- in response to the cursor movements applied directly to the bitmap image, highlighting at least a portion of the bitmapped representation of text corresponding to the determined one or more selected text elements.
An apparatus, having a hardware processor or memory, is configured to:
- receive one or more signals representative of cursor movements over a bitmapped representation of text in a bitmap image, wherein the cursor movements are applied directly to the bitmap image;
- and
- determine one or more selected text elements based on the cursor movements, wherein said determining includes searching a data structure that includes information regarding text element locations corresponding to the bitmapped text representation in the bitmap image, wherein the data structure is separately stored from the bitmap image, and wherein the data structure is generated upon creation of the bitmap image;
- highlight at least a portion of the bitmapped representation of text corresponding to the determined one or more selected text elements in response to the cursor movements applied directly to the bitmap image.
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An article, having one or more non-transitory storage medium, comprising:
- machine-readable instructions stored thereon which, if executed by a special purpose computing device having one or more hardware processors or memories, are enable said special purpose computing device to:
- receive one or more signals representative of cursor movements over a bitmapped representation of text in a bitmap image, wherein the cursor movements are applied directly to the bitmap image;
- determine one or more selected text elements based on the cursor movements, wherein said determining includes searching a data structure that includes information regarding text element locations corresponding to the bitmapped text representation in the bitmap image, wherein the data structure is separately stored from the bitmap image, and wherein the data structure is generated upon creation of the bitmap image;
- in response to the cursor movements applied directly to the bitmap image, highlight at least a portion of the bitmapped representation of text corresponding to the determined one or more selected text elements.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a user-input device configured to generate a signal representative of cursor movements over a bitmapped representation of text displayed in an image, wherein the cursor movements are applied directly to the image;
- a display configured to render said image from a bitmapped representation of said image including said text;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- determine one or more selected text elements based on the cursor movements applied directly to the image, wherein said determining includes searching a data structure that includes information regarding text element locations corresponding to the bitmapped text representation in the image, wherein the data structure is separately stored from the image, and wherein the data structure is generated upon creation of the image;
- in response to the cursor movements applied directly to the image, highlight at least a portion of the bitmapped representation of text corresponding to the determined one or more selected text elements.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving one or more signals representative of a selection of a cursor at a location over an image generated from signals representing a bitmapped representation of said image stored in a memory, wherein the selection of the cursor at the location is applied directly to the image;
- and
- determining whether said location is in a predefined region of said generated image based, at least in part, on information maintained in an extensible markup language (XML) document, wherein said XML document is maintained separately from said bitmapped representation of said image stored in said memory, and wherein the XML document is generated upon creation of the image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.