P2i Limited

Infosis Group Ltd.

Nicholas Geen

Mischka Hughes

Michael William Dudleston Jones

Michael William Jones

Anthony Warner

A computerized information display system extracts text data, lists of keywords, story rankings in order of story importance, and image maps identifying the location of stories from an input of publication files from a publisher. The system can generate a simultaneous display of a page image in which a story appears side-by-side with the text for the story when a particular story is selected, in order to allow a viewer can read the text while referring to the page image for visual cues about the text passage. The viewer can select a story from a displayed list of stories ranked in order of importance relative to other stories appearing on a page. The story rankings are derived based upon comparing one or more story importance indicators: location of the story on the page; size of type font of a headline associated with the story; size of type font associated with the story text; and size of text content for the story. The viewer can navigate to the text for a story on a displayed page by clicking in the story area on the page which is linked by image maps to the corresponding text passage. The viewer can also navigate to a text passage and page image by clicking on a keyword from a list of keywords extracted from the text input from the publisher. These computerized contextual display and image navigation tools allow the viewer a highly interactive experience with the publication. They allow a publication to be converted to electronically viewable form frequently, e.g., several times per day, and in a more user friendly form than the original printed copy.

Publication file conversion and display

An information display system uses data comprising graphical images of pages of a publication and text data. The images comprise images of both text and non-text matter, where the text matter includes a plurality of predefined passages of text, and the text data comprises the plurality of predefined passages of text. A display is provided to simultaneously display at least a part of a page of the image and a selected predefined passage of text. A user operable selector is provided to enable a user to select a portion of the page of the image displayed by the display whereby the display simultaneously displays the selected predefined passage of text as well as the page of the image.

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Nicholas Geen