55 results about "Page break" patented technology

A system and method for paginating objects, such as graphical images, within a predefined space, such as a viewable or printed page, is provided. The system and method includes substantially evenly distributing graphical images on a selected number of pages. Alternately, the system and method may determine remainders based on supplied numbers of graphical images per page and total number of pages, and redetermine and reassign depending upon the remainders, or may employ a page layout technique using scoring to establish a best layout for available graphical images and assign graphical images to pages using the page layout technique, or may determine pagination based on expected viewing conditions. The system and method may also receive specific hard page breaks establishing chapters and compute soft page breaks based on certain criteria.

In one aspect of the present invention, page breaks are identified in the following manner. A set of ink data and a document description are processed by a variety of scoring methods, each of which generates a score for each possible insertion point in the ink. These scores are combined to produce a ranked list of hypothesized page breaks for the corresponding ink data. This ranked list is then used either to insert page breaks automatically using a predefined threshold to determine a cut-off in the list; or to present, on-line, to a human for verification / approval; or a mixture of the two based on two thresholds: one for automatic insertion and the other for human verification. It is to be understood not all scoring methods need be used, that is, one or more of the scoring methods may be used as needed.

Dynamic pagination for electronic documents, such as electronic books, is disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method first processes a document made up of at least text, as a number of segments. Second, the method determines a number of page breaks within a predetermined segment. This segment, for example, may be entered into the memory of a viewing device, such as an electronic book device. Third, the method renders a predetermined page within the predetermined segment, and finally displays the predetermined page. For example, the page can be displayed on a display device such as a flat-panel display of an electronic book device.

A web browser application program provides graphical print techniques, which allow the user to control how a web page is presented. The data processing system, under instruction of a program, responds to an instruction by the user to present a selected portion of a first document by creating a new document from the first document including the header, trailer, and the selected portion. The data processing system responds to an instruction by the user to change the font size of a selected portion of the first document by creating a copy of the first document and modifying or inserting font tags within the copy of the document. The data processing system responds to an instruction by the user to present the first document with page break indicators by creating a copy of the first document and inserting page break indicators within the copy to be presented to the user. The graphical print techniques may also be used together.

This invention relates to a document processing apparatus which edits document data which can define a desired section using an original page as a unit of definition. Whether a page break is designated at the section break of the section is determined. If the page break is designated, a blank original page is inserted at the end of a section before the section break so as to lay out the first original page of a section after the section break at the start of a new surface of a print sheet when original pages are laid out in accordance with a designated layout.

A method of creating a printable representation of data elements as displayed in a browser, including a set of frames. The method includes determining an optimal height distance X of each frame of the set of frames, wherein the frame can be printed without a page break. The method further includes retrieving from a data source a first set of data rows, from a row 1 to a row N, wherein each row further comprises a set of data elements; determining a row height for each row of the first set of data rows, based in part, on a set of device display configuration indicia; and determining a row M from the first set of data rows, wherein a summation of the row height of the row 1 to the row M is smaller than X, and a summation of the row height of the row 1 to a row M+1 is larger than X. The method also includes discarding from the row M+1 to the row N; rendering the row 1 to the row M in the browser frame; and, if necessary, retrieving a second set of data rows beginning with the row M+1.

An album creating apparatus is provided, for creating an album by automatically moving the position of the main object in a page when the main object is overlapped with a fold of the album. The album creating apparatus according to an aspect of the invention includes: an image storage section; an image classification section that classifies a plurality of images into each facing page in an album; an image layout section that lays out the images classified by the image classification section into each facing page in the album; a boundary position storage section that stores the position of the page break of the facing page; a boundary judgment section that judges whether the main object in the image laid out by the image layout section is overlapped with the page break; and a main object moving section that moves the position of the main object such that the main object is not overlapped with the page break.

On-line or computer based document generation and consumption has become as common, or more so, than paper based document generation and consumption. With the move away from paper there is no longer the physical restriction of the paper on which a document may be printed. It is still desirable, however, to break documents into readable pages. We allow a selection of logical page breaks at locations that are deemed convenient, also allow for selection of approximate page dimensions for pages within each logical section. Because these pages are approximate, pagination is less computationally expensive than fixed pagination. Moreover, many of the appearance problems that plague fixed pagination dissolve.

A page-break creating method for use with a computer system is disclosed. The computer system is in communication with a printing device. After a document to be printed is selected, in response to a print command from the computer system, it is discriminated whether there is at least one graph included in image data of the document. Then, the region of the at least one graph is located if there is at least one graph included in the image data of the document. Then, the region of at least one text paragraph included in the image data of the document is located. Afterward, a page-break setting is created according to the regions of the at least one graph and the at least one text paragraph by inserting a page break in the image data of the document such that no graph or text paragraph is divided into separable one on different pages.

The “Idiom Identifier” converts an original text document to a “neutral” form containing no punctuation, no capital letters, and having only a single space between each word. Neutral form text also removes hidden markup such as line breaks, paragraph breaks or page breaks. The Idiom Identifier performs an enhanced text search to locate idioms listed in a library file. The Idiom Identifier marks each identified idiom in a marked-up copy of the original text document. A reader can click on the marked-up idiom to see a definition of the idiom.

A method and system for publishing a plurality of books for user access to information includes selecting a plurality of books, converting each book from a publisher's digital form, e.g., by training a tool to detect characteristic features (such as layout, typeface, and hierarchical or organizational features such as chapter headings, captions, drawings and tables), and extracting text or data information of the book tagged with the features. This produces a searchable library database arranged, for example, as an xml database indexed by book structure such that a user may remotely, over the internet or other network, access the database, search desired content, and view an image of a portion of the book with the desired data. The system includes a user registration module to identify an authorized user, and may maintain a personal bookshelf for the user. A search engine may score search results based on their position in the hierarchy or other factors, determining degree of relevance of text or data information located by the search engine. The other factors may include position of located search data in the hierarchy, identification of search data in the user's personal library or in a prior search by the user, or degree of match of data identified in the search. An interface with a commercially available search engine may operate to adapt the search. When provided a search query by a user, it may search for an exact match and score hits for relevance, and in the event an exact match is not found, operate to expand the query and return hits in order of rank together with an indication of the expanded search. The user may thus ascertain a degree of likely relevance of returned text or data information. The relational database may include hyperlinks to section headings and related data passages, such that a user accessing a page of a book may immediately view related data and context of a page. The relational database is indexed by logical subunits of the book such that expanded searches for Boolean combinations or proximity of elements span page breaks of book text to identify all instances of the desired search data. The search engine may expand a search if all hits have low ranking, and may suppress hits of low ranking when the search produces hits of high ranking. In further embodiments, the search engine may search tables, drawings and formulae of the converted book file.

An apparatus and method for controlling printing including setting a print attribute to a specific page or a specific page range in a print job, permitting an application to produce print data, analyzing the print data and searching for a page break code in a case where the application is permitted to produce the print data and the print attribute in the print job is set, and inserting, into the print data, a print attribute command to specify the print attribute, wherein the print attribute command is inserted according to the result of the search for the page break code.

A method and a file format transformation system (FFTS) for transforming marked-up content in a first file format (FFF) to a second file format (SFF) that enables automated browser based pagination are provided. The FFTS reflows marked-up content of the FFF into a continuous page. The FFTS generates and appends tags to spaces and block elements identified in the reflown marked-up content of the FFF. For each space and block element, the FFTS determines and tags line breaks in the reflown marked-up content. For each line break, the FFTS identifies, tags, and positions anchored floats and footnotes on a current page based on space availability. The FFTS positions page breaks in the continuous page based on a configurable page height and the line breaks. The FFTS groups the marked-up content, inserts pagination elements and renders the grouped marked-up content in the SFF based on a selected level of reversibility.

A method of printing an indication of defective printing can print a defective printing mark indicating that printing was not completed normally on a printout containing unprinted or missing dots. When printing one page of print data on recording paper is completed but before a paper discharge command indicating a page break (step ST3) is executed, the operation printing the one page of print data is interrupted and whether or not ink droplets are being discharged normally from the ink nozzles of the inkjet head is detected. If the ink droplets are not being discharged normally, the recording paper is conveyed in reverse direction and print data for the defective printing mark is printed on the recording paper as part of the interrupt process. Therefore, if the recording paper contains unprinted (missing) dots, a defective printing mark is printed on the recording paper and printing the one page of print data then ends.

The purpose of this application is to provide a method and device for backing up data. Specifically, read and detect whether the page of the data file has a page break problem; and lock the page with the page break problem into a readable and unmodifiable state, and re-read and copy the page to the backup set, and then release the page Locks the read-only, non-modifiable state of the page. Compared with the prior art, the method and device for backing up data described in the present application reads and detects whether a page of a data file has a page break problem, and uses a preemptive method to lock the page with the page break problem to be readable and unmodifiable. state to temporarily prevent subsequent data from continuing the writing process to the page. After the page quickly completes the writing process of the current data, the page is re-read and copied to the page in the backup set, so as to solve the problem well. The problem of page breakage in the backup process is eliminated, and the backup success rate is greatly improved.

A page flip mechanism and method for a handheld device. According to an embodiment, the page flip mechanism is configured to work in conjunction with a pointing device on the handheld device to flip or advance a document page by page. According to an embodiment, the page flip mechanism is configured to display the document based on page breaks in the document. According to another embodiment, the page flip mechanism is configured to display the document based on page boundaries corresponding to the display area. According to another aspect, the page flip mechanism is configured for a page select mode of operation. According to another aspect, the page flip mechanism is configured for a zoom mode of operation.

An electronic display device includes a page data acquisition section which acquires page data including display data and text data, a display data buffer, a write processing section which writes the display data into the display data buffer, a display processing section which displays an image on a display section, and a sound generation section which generates text read-out sound. The display processing section switches display processing between a page batch display process for displaying an image of a given page on the display section and a page split display process for displaying an image of a lower portion of a given page in an upper area of the display section and displaying an image of an upper portion of a subsequent page in a lower area of the display section, based on page break determination information included in the text data and the progress of the text read-out process.

A system and method for processing YCbCr video data stored in a paged memory with reduced page breaks. A method is disclosed for retrieving YCbCr planar video data in 4:2:0 format from paged memory. A page of the paged memory containing Y data is accessed; Y data corresponding to M pixels of video data is then retrieved, where M is a value greater than or equal to two. The retrieved Y data is then stored in a shift register. Similar steps are taken to access, retrieve and store Cb and Cr data. Within the shift register, the Y, Cb, and Cr data is stored as sets of planar video data. The Y, Cb, and Cr data is retrieved from the shift register as a series of pixel data for generating pixels on a video display unit.

It is an object of this invention to provide a user-legible print result in consecutively printing a plurality of pages of images. To this end, it is checked whether there is continuity between data to be printed at the lower end portion of a page and data to be printed at the upper end portion of the next page. If there is continuity, a page break is inserted before the data at the lower end portion of the page, and an image of the data at the lower end portion is printed on the next page. Controlling a printing method in this manner makes it possible to prevent character split due to printing across pages and provide a user-legible print result.

A personal computer acquires the number of pages L to be laid in one surface of a medium specified by a user, thereby acquiring a page number K to be considered to be a page break for one copy. A counter is incremented every time print data corresponding to one page are transmitted to a printer. When the value of the counter has exceeded the page-break page number K, recording of a top page of the next copy on the same recording paper is prevented by inserting a blank page, so long as the counter does not assume a multiple of the page number L.

Methods, devices and systems are described for implementing interactive modification of spacing constraints of genealogical charts. The method includes displaying, on a display device of a computer system, a user interface for displaying one or more genealogical charts including one or more nodes. The user interface includes a horizontal slider and a vertical slider for manipulating the one or more geological charts' size. The one or more geological charts include page breaks representing a number of pages. The method further includes receiving, from an input device of the computer system, manipulation input for one or more of the vertical slider or the horizontal slider. Then, in response to receiving the manipulation input, providing real-time graphical feedback representing the manipulation in the display of the one or more genealogical charts. The real-time graphical feedback includes expanding and / or contracting the one or more genealogical charts such that the number of page for the one or more geological charts is automatically increased or decreased to accommodate the size of the one or more geological charts.

A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for resolving inter-page nodes in flow diagrams is presented. In one embodiment, an inter-page node in a flow diagram is identified. An inter-page node is a node laid out on a page break in a multi-page flow diagram. A set of candidate pages is formed. A bid for each page in a set of candidate pages is requested from each policy in a set of page break policies. A page is selected from the set of candidate pages based on bids received from the set of page break policies. A value of each bid indicates a level of suitability of each page in the set of candidate pages. The inter-page node located on the page break is moved to a new location on the selected page. The new location on the selected page is located off of all page breaks for the flow diagram.

A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for resolving inter-page nodes in flow diagrams is presented. In one embodiment, an inter-page node in a flow diagram is identified. An inter-page node is a node laid out on a page break in a multi-page flow diagram. A set of candidate pages is formed. A bid for each page in a set of candidate pages is requested from each policy in a set of page break policies. A page is selected from the set of candidate pages based on bids received from the set of page break policies. A value of each bid indicates a level of suitability of each page in the set of candidate pages. The inter-page node located on the page break is moved to a new location on the selected page. The new location on the selected page is located off of all page breaks for the flow diagram.

It is an object of this invention to provide a user-legible print result in consecutively printing a plurality of pages of images. To this end, it is checked whether there is continuity between data to be printed at the lower end portion of a page and data to be printed at the upper end portion of the next page. If there is continuity, a page break is inserted before the data at the lower end portion of the page, and an image of the data at the lower end portion is printed on the next page. Controlling a printing method in this manner makes it possible to prevent character split due to printing across pages and provide a user-legible print result.

To select an element block from an element tree obtained by analyzing a structured document and arrange the element block into a page in a simple and appropriate manner. First, a pointer for referring to a next previous element block is provided. Secondly, page-break processing corresponding to the type of contents of the element block is performed.

A method for dividing pages and an electronic display device are provided. The method for dividing pages includes the following steps. An edit page is started on the display screen, and a length of an editable area is increased in the edit page when the edit page is pulled down. The edit page receives a paging operation to generate at least one page break in at least one position of the edit page. When the at least one page break is generated, the edit page is divided into at least two separate pages according to the at least one page break, and the separate pages are respectively saved as different files. The method for dividing pages is more convenient and user-friendly for the user operating a data editing operation of the electronic display device.

In one aspect of the present invention, page breaks are identified in the following manner. A set of ink data and a document description are processed by a variety of scoring methods, each of which generates a score for each possible insertion point in the ink. These scores are combined to produce a ranked list of hypothesized page breaks for the corresponding ink data. This ranked list is then used either to insert page breaks automatically using a predefined threshold to determine a cut-off in the list; or to present, on-line, to a human for verification / approval; or a mixture of the two based on two thresholds: one for automatic insertion and the other for human verification. It is to be understood not all scoring methods need be used, that is, one or more of the scoring methods may be used as needed.