Method to automatically determine the thumbnail of a document
US8046717B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 8, 2007 |
| Grant date | Oct 25, 2011 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 6, 2028 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06Q10/00
- WIPO fieldIT methods for management
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and method for automatically generating the most relevant thumbnail of a document. Every page of a multi-page document is analyzed for rich content. Based on this analysis, a score is assigned to every page of the document depending on certain parameters such as the amount of rich content and number of occurrences of rich content on each page. The page with the highest score is identified and this page is selected as the thumbnail of the document.
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