Methods and systems for incrementally changing text representation
US7650562B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Feb 21, 2003 |
| Grant date | Jan 19, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 17, 2025 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F40/106
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
To reduce required display space, a text segment is reduced in size by successively eliminating portions of the text segment in an animated fashion. The reduction is thus visually represented in a way that maintains recognizability of the text segment, even if the final representation of the text does not carry a full meaning and/or is not independently comprehensible, because of the impression left in the mind of the user by the animated reduction of the text segment. The reduction may include reducing a size of text of the text segment and/or a spacing between characters of the text segment.
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