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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2010
João Batista Sousade Oliveira, Porto Alegre, BR;
Isabel H. Manssour, Porto Alegre, BR;
Ricardo Farias B. Piccoli, Canoas, BR;
Alexandre K. Seki, Viamao, BR;
Mauricio S. Klein, Nova Santa Rita, BR;
João Batista Sousade Oliveira, Porto Alegre, BR;
Isabel H. Manssour, Porto Alegre, BR;
Ricardo Farias B. Piccoli, Canoas, BR;
Alexandre K. Seki, Viamao, BR;
Mauricio S. Klein, Nova Santa Rita, BR;
Abstract
The present disclosure includes a system and method for automatic page layout. One automatic page layout method includes dividing a plurality of ordered graphical items into groups, and bisecting a space into regions having a reading order corresponding to an order of the ordered graphical items, each region corresponding to one of the groups and being sized according to a first layout characteristic of the ordered graphical items of the region's corresponding group in proportion to a second layout characteristic of the plurality of ordered graphical items. An output is caused in which each region has been filled with that region's associated group of ordered graphical items.