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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2015
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Stanton Todd Marcum, Seattle, WA (US);
Michael Patrick Bacus, Seattle, WA (US);
Timothy Thomas Gray, Seattle, WA (US);
AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Devices, systems and methods are disclosed for emphasizing particular text in reflowable content. Primary text, such as keywords or sentences related to a most recent input, and secondary text, such as row(s) of text including the keywords and/or sentences, are determined. The primary text may be emphasized using a first effect and the secondary text may be emphasized using a second effect, while an opacity of non-emphasized text may be reduced. Content is displayed initially with the first effect, the second effect and the reduced opacity, and an animation sequence removes the first effect and the second effect and increases the opacity in intervals until the content is displayed uniformly. Thus content that is of interest to a reader (such as a previous reading location) may be emphasized when a screen refreshes with reflowed content.