RU2575699C2 - Comparison of panoptically visualised documents - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: physics.

SUBSTANCE: claimed system comprises the mechanism of comparison and the mechanism of configuration built in the latter or coupled therewith. Said mechanism of comparison can compare two or more document components, each including the appropriate medium content and associated metadata on appropriate component of the document.

EFFECT: configuration of panoptically ordered visual representation of document components or the result of their comparison with the configuration pattern and with related metadata, possibility of passing data to the configuration.

15 cl, 24 dwg

Description

Technical field

The present invention relates, in general, to panoptic visualization of documents, and in particular to panoptic visualization of documents or their components in a manner that reflects the logical relationships between documents / components according to their structure.

State of the art

Printed topic information is often printed on many pages because the information does not fit on a separate page and / or is more efficiently presented through multiple pages. Multiple pages may belong to the same source or multiple sources. For example, aircraft technical drawings can be printed so that different parts of the same circuit can be located on different pages. Drawings of one assembly of an aircraft may be contained in one library or source, while drawings of another assembly may be contained in a second library or source.

The printed information can also be printed so that one document contains one level of detail of the object, while another document contains a different level of detail of the same object. For example, an aircraft outline may be printed so that the glider of that aircraft is visible in the drawing. Another diagram of the same aircraft can be printed so that the aircraft is hidden and the interior of the aircraft is presented. Thus, a specialist can use different schemes to study different information about the same object.

Another example is the wiring diagrams, which are often printed on many pages, because the graphic and textual information presented on the wiring diagram is too large to fit on one page. Thus, a specialist can repeatedly change documents in order to fully study the information about the wiring system.

Documents such as flow charts, technical drawings, wiring diagrams, and other suitable types of documents can be used for aircraft maintenance. Documents are created for viewing in printed form. However, such documents are usually stored electronically and viewed on the display of the data processing system. As a result, a specialist views various documents that may be on various types of media. This type of scan may be longer than required to obtain aircraft information.

Documents relating to complex systems, such as an aircraft, can therefore contain a large amount of information regarding a complex system and their components, subsystems and parts, relationships and relationships between the corresponding elements of a complex system. The complexity of the system and the large amount of information often necessary to describe the system can lead to an increase not only in the time required to study the documents, but also to an increase in difficulty in understanding a complex system and their elements. The user may need time not only to review documents containing a large amount of information, but it may also take time to overcome the difficulty in studying information in order to understand in what way a complex system and its elements relate to each other.

Thus, a method and apparatus can be claimed that take into account at least some of the problems described above, and possibly other problems.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Illustrative embodiments of the present invention, in General, relate to a system for comparing panoptically visualized documents and the corresponding method and computer-readable storage medium. In accordance with exemplary embodiments, the media content of a document collection can be panoptically arranged so that it reflects the logical relationships between the content, which can, in turn, reflect the relationships between objects or their elements depicted by the content. In more detail, for example, media content can be distinctive, or in other words comparative, and its difference (or comparison) can be panoptically visualized in a layout that provides the ability to quickly highlight and show relationships, differences, etc. in media content. Streamlining can provide the user with the opportunity to see the comparison individually and in a way that promotes a better understanding of content that might otherwise be difficult to understand. For a complex system, such as an aircraft, including many components, subsystems and parts, ordering can not only shorten the time needed to review documents containing a large amount of information, but can also shorten the time needed and facilitate the study of information to understand the order in which a complex system and their elements relate to each other. This can even be more clearly expressed in relation to the technical prints of a complex system, where in another way you can spend an unacceptable amount of time or encounter difficulties in studying prints for understanding the depicted elements of the system. Exemplary embodiments may therefore reduce difficulties and time to study even the largest array of information contained in some documents.

One aspect of exemplary embodiments is a system including a comparison mechanism and a composition mechanism that is either part of a comparison mechanism or associated with a comparison mechanism. The comparison mechanism is configured to directly compare two or more document components (source pages), each of which includes corresponding media content and each of which has associated metadata providing information about the corresponding document component. The layout mechanism is configured to create a layout of a panoptically ordered visual representation of document components or the result of their comparison (comparison result page) in accordance with the layout diagram and associated metadata. The comparison mechanism is also configured to communicate with the layout.

In one example, the comparison mechanism may be configured to directly compare one document component with one or more of the other components of the document, and the layout mechanism may be configured to create a layout including one component of the document in a row with one or more of the other components. document. In a further example, the comparison mechanism may be configured to directly compare many of the same components of a document with many other components of a document. In this additional example, the layout mechanism may be configured to create a first layout of some components of a document, a second layout of other components of a document, and a layout including a first layout arranged in a row with the second layout.

In another example, the comparison mechanism may be configured to directly compare one document component with one or more of the other components of the document. In this example, the document comparing mechanism may be further configured to generate a component of the comparison result obtained by comparing the components of the first document and one or more components of the second document. Comparison of the document component may include overlapping media content of the first document component of the media content of one or more of the other components of the document. The layout mechanism may also be configured to create a layout including comparing a document component.

In a further example, the comparison mechanism may be configured to directly compare many of the same components of a document with many other components of a document. In this additional example, the comparison mechanism in the document may be configured to generate a plurality of comparisons obtained by comparing the first components of the document with the corresponding one or more of the other components of the document, and the layout mechanism may be configured to generate a layout including comparing the components of the document.

In one example, each of the document components or their comparisons may be in a state that includes visual representations at appropriate resolutions of the corresponding document component or comparison, and the associated metadata may provide information indicating at least the size of the visual representation of the comparison result in the layout. In this example, the layout mechanism may be configured to retrieve each document component or comparison result for a visual presentation with a resolution that matches the size specified by the information provided in the associated metadata.

Further, for example, visual representations for each of the components of a document or a comparison result can be visual representations at appropriate resolutions for the zoom levels of the document component or comparison result, together with visual representations divided by zoom levels into a progressively increasing number of tiles, each of which covers spatial area of the visual representation at the appropriate zoom level. In this more detailed example, the layout mechanism may be configured to retrieve the tiles of the visual presentation of each of the components of the document or the comparison result at a resolution that matches the size indicated by the information provided in the associated metadata.

Other aspects of illustrative embodiments are a method and a computer-readable storage medium for comparing documents for panoptic visualization. The features, functions and advantages described herein may be achieved independently in various illustrative embodiments, or may be combined in other illustrative embodiments, further details of which can be identified from the following description and drawings.

Brief Description of the Drawings

After describing exemplary embodiments of the present invention in general terms, the accompanying drawings are considered, which are not necessarily drawn to scale and include:

figure 1 is an image of a panoptic imaging system in accordance with an illustrative embodiment;

figure 2 is an image of a collection system of panoptically visualized documents in accordance with one illustrative embodiment;

figure 3 is an image of a layout system of a panoptically visualized document in accordance with one illustrative embodiment;

4 is a view of a navigation system of a panoptically rendered document in accordance with one illustrative embodiment;

5 is an image of a comparison system of panoptically visualized documents in accordance with one illustrative embodiment;

6-17 are simplified images of examples of suitable layout schemes in accordance with illustrative embodiments;

18-24 are images of illustrative page layouts that can be displayed on a GUI having a predetermined visible area and controlled by a user in accordance with an illustrative embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed description

Some embodiments of the present invention are described more fully below with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which not all are shown, but only some embodiments of the invention. Of course, various illustrative embodiments can be implemented in various forms and are not restrictive for the embodiments set forth herein; more specifically, these exemplary embodiments have been presented so that the invention is complete and comprehensive and that these options fully convey the scope of the present invention to those skilled in the art. For example, unless otherwise indicated, the description of something following the first, second, etc., should not be construed as containing a specific order. Also, something described as being higher up in the text of something else (unless otherwise indicated) may instead be lower in the text, and vice versa; and likewise, something described as being to the left of the text from something else may instead be to the right of the text, and vice versa. The same reference numbers correspond to the same elements throughout the text.

Illustrative embodiments of the present invention relate to panoptic visualization of documents, in general, and to panoptic visualization of documents or its document components in a manner that reflects the logical relationships between documents / components, in particular. The exemplary embodiments are mainly described with reference to the aerospace field of application. However, it should be understood that the embodiments provided by way of example can be used in a number of other fields of application both in the aerospace industry and outside it.

FIG. 1 illustrates a panoptic imaging system 100 according to exemplary embodiments of the present invention. The system may include any number of different subsystems (each subsystem is a separate system) for the implementation of one or more functions or operations in accordance with one or more electronic documents. As shown, for example, the system may include a document collection system 102, a document composition system 104, a document navigation system 106 and / or a document comparison system 108. Although a document collection system, a document composition system, a document navigation system and / or a document comparison system are shown as part of a panoptic visualization system, one or more of them can instead be isolated from the panoptic visualization system, but be associated with it. It should also be understood that one or more subsystems can function or operate as a separate system independently of other subsystems. And yet, it should be understood that the panoptic visualization system may include one or more additional or alternative subsystems from those shown in FIG.

As described herein, an electronic document (or simply a document) can be any electronic media content capable of being visualized in electronic and / or printed form. The media content of a document may include one or more of text, graphic, or other visual content, such as photo images, video images, or the like. A document can consist of a number of different types of documents in which the type of document can be specified by one or more characteristics of the document, such as its format, media content or similar characteristics. Examples of suitable document types include auto-generated documents (e.g. CAD, CATDrawing, CATPart, CATProduct, CATProcess, cgr, DWG, DXF, DWF, etc.), text documents (e.g. ANS, ASC, DOC, DOCX, HTML, PDF, RTF, TXT, WPD, etc.), presentation documents (e.g. PDP, PPT, etc.), graphic documents (e.g. BMP, GIF, JPEG, JP2, PNG, PSD, PSP, RAW, TIFF, etc.), video documents (e.g., AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, WMV, etc.) or similar. Other examples of suitable types of documents include individual regulatory documents (e.g. court decisions, case notes, patents, etc.) or collections thereof, books, articles, web pages, screenshots, maintenance bulletins, technological diagrams, warranties, technical drawings, wiring diagrams or the like. Still examples of suitable types of documents include data files, such as technical design data, wiring data, diagnostic data, business data, or the like.

A document may be composed of one or more constituent components of a document, which may be the layout of their media content, for example, between the main break points. The components of a document may depend on the type of document and may include, for example, electronic pages, slides, diagrams, drawings, photo images, video images, or the like. A component of a document is usually called a "page", although it does not have to be an electronic page because it may include other types of components. In cases where the document includes only one component, the document and its component may be the same.

As described herein, reference may be made to a document formed from constituent pages. However, it should be understood that illustrative embodiments can be equally applied to a group (collection) of documents formed from constituent documents, which may or may not also be formed from constituent pages. Thus, functions performed in relation to a document can be equally implemented in relation to a group of documents, and functions performed in relation to a page can be equally implemented in relation to a constituent document.

Each page can be formed in the form of data from which its visual representation (or rather its media content) can be obtained in electronic and / or printed (or printed) form. The visual presentation of a page is usually called simply a page or “image”, although the page does not have to include a photo image, as it may contain other types of media content.

The page may include media content that contains one or more objects, and include one or more elements that reflect, or otherwise form, the object (s). Therefore, it can sometimes be said that the page depicts its object (s) and / or element (s) of its object (s). For example, a page may contain an aircraft as its object and include an image of a glider or interior or parts of an image of a glider or interior of an aircraft as an element (s), or a page may contain an image of a glider or interior as its object and include parts of the image of a glider or interior as elements. As another example, a page may contain an aircraft dashboard as its object and includes dashboard devices as elements.

Typically, documents and / or pages thereof, according to exemplary embodiments, may have one or more logical relationships with each other. Further, according to the following more detailed description, the document collection system 102 as part of the panoptic visualization system 100 can be basically configured to receive documents and collect pages according to these logical relationships with the pages collected as a collection of documents for panoptic visualization (collection of panoptically visualized documents) . The document composition system 104 may be generally configured to obtain layouts of panoptically ordered, logically related pages of collections of panoptically visualized documents, such as a collection obtained by a document collection system. The document navigation system 106 may be generally configured to select and provide navigation option (s) for moving a visual presentation of the layout of the panoptically ordered, logically linked pages of a collection of panoptically visualized documents, such as the layout obtained by the document layout system. The visual representation of a layout is generally called simply layout.

The document comparing system 108 can generally be configured to specify conditions for comparing two or more pages of one or more documents (the pages being compared are sometimes referred to as “source pages”), the pages of which are assembled or can be assembled into a collection of panoptically visualized documents. In particular, the document comparison system can set the conditions for comparing at least one page of the first source with at least one page of the second source and can set the conditions for comparison in different ways. In one example, a document comparison system may be configured to directly present the page (s) of a first source next to the page (s) of a second source. In another example, a document comparison system may be configured to obtain and set conditions for presenting the results of comparison (s) of the page (or pages) of the first source and the corresponding page (or pages) of the second source.

In the exemplary embodiments of the present invention, it is therefore possible to collect the pages of the document (s) according to the logical relationships between the pages, these relationships in one example as applied to a complex system, such as an aircraft, may reflect structural relationships between its elements. Pages can be panoptically ordered in a way that reflects logical relationships and, in various examples, structural relationships. Streamlining can provide the user with the opportunity to see the pages individually and in a way that promotes a better understanding of relationships that might otherwise be difficult to understand. For example, in a complex system, ordering can not only reduce the time required to review documents containing a large amount of information, but can also reduce the time needed and facilitate the study of information to understand how the complex system and its elements relate to each other.

Next, FIGS. 2, 3, 4, and 5 are illustrated, which illustrate more specific examples of a suitable document collection system, a document composition system, a document navigation system, and a document comparison system, respectively, according to exemplary embodiments of the present invention.

2 shows a document collection system 200 according to one exemplary embodiment. As shown, the document collection system may include a document analyzer 202 configured to receive one or more electronic documents and break them down into a plurality of component pages (document components), each of which includes corresponding media content. Documents can be obtained from any number of different sources. For example, documents may be obtained from a data warehouse, such as a data file storage, database storage, cloud storage, or other digital data source.

The document analyzer 202 may be configured to split documents in any way. In one example, a document analyzer can be arranged to break down documents according to the type of documents (for example, automatically designed documents, presentation documents, graphic documents, video documents, regulatory documents, books, articles, web pages, flowcharts, technical drawings, wiring diagrams, etc.). Therefore, the document analyzer can also be configured to determine the type of documents, for example, based on a document format, business rules, or through user data.

The document collection system 200 may also include a colligator 204 connected to a document analyzer 202 and configured to link pages. In this sense, page linking may include (for each of one or more pages of a plurality) a collator configured to identify one or more links between a page and one or more different pages of a plurality. The relationship (s) in one example can be identified in accordance with the documents, the type of documents and / or media content of the page and another page (or pages). In yet another example, the relationship (s) can be specified in accordance with one or more business rules, logic, or the like. This link (s) may establish one or more logical relationships between the page and the other page (s).

In one example, a link can be identified between pages within a common document (components of the same document). In one example, a link can be identified between pages adjacent to each other in a predetermined sequence, such as a time sequence, a spatial sequence, or an ordinal sequence in a general document or collection of documents. In some cases, the link can be identified in accordance with the object (s) or element (s) of the pages. For example, a link may be identified between pages having a common object or common element. In one example, a link can be identified between pages, among which an element of one (page) is an object of another (element-object) or among which an object of one (page) is an element of another (object-element).

In one example, a link may be identified between pages linked through a parent-child relationship. In one example, a link can be identified between pages in cases in which one of the pages includes a link to another page or a link to it in its media content. In this sense, the court decision may include a link to another court decision (for example, in the body of the court decision or in a footnote, note or similar element), or the page may include a hyperlink to another page. And in yet another example, a link can be identified between pages using user data indicating a link between pages.

In addition to identifying the link (s) between pages, colligator 204 can also be configured to retrieve, create, or otherwise provide each of one or more metadata pages associated with that page. The metadata associated with a page can provide any number of different units of information about this page. For example, metadata associated with a page may provide information defining the relationship (s) between this page and other page (s). This information may include the names or other identifiers of another page (or pages) associated with the page, and may also include an indication of the logical relationship (s) established by the relationship (s) between them (for example, a shared common document, object and / or element, adjacency, element-object, object-element, parent-child, link / link, specific user, etc.).

In addition to the link (s), the associated page metadata may include one or more other units of page information. For example, metadata may provide information related to a document for which the page is a component, such as the name or other identifier of the document and / or author, size and / or time of creation or last modification of the document. Also, for example, metadata can provide information about one or more content restrictions that apply or should be applied to the page, such as access restriction, restriction of editing or modification, and / or encryption of the page.

Metadata may also provide information about the media content of the page. This information may include, for example, the identification of the object (s) and / or page element (s), the segment of the page including one or more elements, and / or the level of detail of one or more elements on the page. In some cases, the link between pages having a common object, element, or related to element-object or object-element can be derived from metadata defining the corresponding object (s) and / or element (s) of documents. In these cases, a description of the object (s) and / or page element (s) may be sufficient for information identifying the corresponding link (s) between the pages.

In one example, page linking may further include a colligator 204 configured to identify one or more layout schemes of at least some pages. In this example, the associated metadata extracted, created, or otherwise provided by the collator for a certain page may further include information indicating the layout of the corresponding page in each of one or more layout schemes. For an appropriate layout scheme, they may include, for example, an indication of the size, location and / or depth (z-order) of the page (or more specifically its visual presentation). The layout scheme (s) may be identified and the size, location and / or depth may be indicated in any way, for example, in accordance with one or more business rules, logic diagrams, or similar methods.

Examples of suitable layout schemes (sometimes called presentation styles) include brick wall, partial brick wall, hierarchical layout, shape, centrifugal layout, top-down / triangulated layout, centrifugal triangulated layout, size-dominant layout, with overlapping a fragment, with a hierarchy in depth, with a loading form, a mesh layout, a multimedia / static-dynamic layout, or the like. Other examples may include combinations of several of the above layout schemes. Each of a plurality of examples of layout schemes will now be described in detail.

In one example, the page size in the layout may be specified as an absolute size or a relative size, each of which can be specified in different ways. In some cases, the page size may relate to the size in pixels and, therefore, may provide the number of pixels on the page, or page resolution in pixels. In one example, the absolute page size can be specified by the dimensions of the height and width (for example, N × M pixels). In another example, the page size can be specified as a relative size based on the size of another or more other pages with which this page is logically linked. For example, the relative size can be set in different ways, such as percentages, part or multiple of another page (or pages), or the relative size can be set simply by indicating less than, greater than or equal to the size of the other page (or pages). In pages linked through a parent-child relationship, for example, the size of the child page can be specified as half the size of its parent. In any case, when the size is relative, the size of the corresponding other page (or pages) can be specified in its associated metadata and can be specified as an absolute or relative size based on the size of other pages.

Similarly to the size, in one example, the location (sometimes referred to as the position) of the page in the layout scheme can be indicated as an absolute location or relative location, but one way or another, can be specified in different ways. Similarly, the page depth in the layout diagram can be indicated as absolute depth or relative depth, each of which can be specified in different ways. For example, the absolute location of the page can be set in the x, y coordinates of the coordinate system, which covers the layout scheme, and the absolute depth can be set in the z coordinates of the coordinate system. In another example, the relative location of the page can be specified in x, y coordinates relative to a point or another page (or pages) in the layout. In another example, the relative location can be set simply by pointing above, below, to the left or right of a point or another page (or pages) in the layout diagram. Similarly, in one example, the relative depth can be set simply by specifying the page in front of or behind the other page (or pages) in the layout diagram. In any case, when the location and / or depth are relative, the location and / or depth of the corresponding other page (or pages) can be specified in its associated metadata and can be specified as absolute or relative values of the location and / or depth.

Colligator 204 may be configured to link pages to metadata as a collection of panoptically visualized documents and link the collection to any of a variety of other purposes. In one example, the collator may be configured to link pages and metadata to a corresponding data store 206, 208 for subsequent retrieval. The data warehouse may be combined with the document collection system 200 or may be located separately from this system, but interact with it. Pages and metadata can be formatted and saved in any way possible, and thus their data store can be any of many different types. Examples of suitable types of data storage include data file storage, a database, cloud storage, or the like.

In various examples, before storing the pages in the corresponding data storage 206, the pages can be compressed or processed in another way to facilitate storage and retrieval. As shown, for example, the system may include a tyler 210 connected to the collator, and through which the collator communicates with the pages. The tyler can be configured to create (for each of one or more pages) visual representations of the page with a resolution corresponding to the page zoom levels. As described in this document, a page (or rather its visual presentation) at each zoom level can be generally called a "fragment of the image" and can sometimes be mistaken for a separate version or copy of the page. However, as indicated above, the image fragment of the page does not have to include a photo image, since the page may include other types of media content.

In addition to or instead of creating fragments of the image of the page, the tyler 210 may be configured to divide the fragments of the image by zoom levels into a progressively increasing number of tiles, each of which covers the spatial zone of the image fragment in the corresponding zoom level. This can help to extract, pan and / or zoom the page, as shown below. Then the tyler can be further configured to link tiles of fragments of the image of the pages, for example, with the storage page. However, before communicating with tiles, the tyler can be further configured to compress tiles if necessary.

In one more specific example, Tyler 210 may be configured to create multiple page resolution values corresponding to zoom levels hierarchically from the upper zoom level through one or more intermediate zoom levels to the base zoom level. Each zoom level includes a fragment of the image of the entire page, but at different resolutions; and fragments of the page image at different zoom levels can have the same natural aspect ratio (the ratio of the image width to its height). In one example, the upper zoom level (level 0) may include a fragment of the image of the entire page at its lowest resolution, one or more intermediate zoom levels may include a fragment of the image of the entire page at progressively increasing resolutions (level 1 is located directly below level 0 , level 2 directly below level 1, etc.) and the basic zoom level (level L) may include a fragment of the image of the entire page at its highest (or full) resolution NII.

Each fragment of the page image can be obtained in any of the possible ways. In one example, one of the image fragments may be received by the tyler 210, for example, a full resolution image fragment. Then the tyler can be configured to create other fragments of images at lower resolutions, for example by decimating a fragment of the image in full resolution.

As indicated, the tyler 210 can be configured to decompose image fragments into zoom levels into a progressively increasing number of tiles, each of which covers the spatial area of the image fragment at the corresponding zoom level. Tiles can have a fixed size (resolution) within and across the zoom levels and, accordingly, a fragment of an image made up of a larger number of tiles can generally have a higher resolution than a fragment of an image made up of a smaller number of tiles. Therefore, each zoom level can be considered a higher zoom level relative to any zoom level located above it (in this case, the image fragment at this zoom level has a higher resolution than the image fragment at any zoom level located above it). Similarly, each zoom level can be considered a lower zoom level relative to any zoom level located below it (in this case, the image fragment at this zoom level has a lower resolution than the image fragment at any zoom level located below it).

In one example, the resolution of a fragment of an image at each zoom level can be equal to half the resolution of the zoom level located directly below it and double the resolution of the zoom level located directly above it (resolutions increase or decrease with a factor of two). In this example, the indicated number of tiles at the scaling level l can be set by tl = t0 × 4l, where l = 0, 1, 2, ... L, and t0 represents the specified number of tiles at the upper scaling level (level 0). In a more specific example, including four zoom levels 0, 1, 2, and 3 (L = 3) and in which the upper zoom level of the image fragment is composed of 1 tile (t0 = 1), the first intermediate zoom level (level 1) of the image fragment can be composed of 4 tiles, the second intermediate zoom level (level 2) of the image fragment can be composed of 16 tiles, and the main zoom level (level 3) of the image fragment can be composed of 64 tiles.

In one example, a page covered with a number of tiles at a single zoom level can be covered by increasing or decreasing the number of tiles at higher or lower zoom levels, respectively, thereby increasing or decreasing the page resolution. Similarly, a page area covered by one tile at one zoom level can be covered by several (for example, four) tiles at an adjacent higher zoom level, thereby increasing the resolution of the corresponding page zone. And also the page area covered by multiple tiles at the same zoom level can be covered by one tile at an adjacent lower zoom level, thereby reducing the resolution of the corresponding page zone.

In one example, a page (or its zone) at a specific resolution can be displayed by means of a tile (s) covering the page at a zoom level corresponding to a specific resolution. Page enlargement can be accomplished by replacing the displayed tile (s) with an increased number of tiles covering the page at a higher zoom level. Similarly, page reduction can be accomplished by replacing the displayed tiles with a reduced number of tiles (or one tile) covering the page at a lower zoom level. Also, since the page can be split into tiles, in cases where the segment, and not the whole page, is visible in the graphical user interface (GUI) in which the page is displayed, only the tiles covering the visible segment of the page can be extracted and displayed .

In the various examples described below in more detail, this page and metadata stored in the repositories 206 and 208, and one or more of the systems: a document analyzer 202, colligator 204 or tyler 210 can be included in a document comparison system, such as comparison system 108 documents or otherwise connected to it. The document comparison system may accept a request to provide source pages of one or more documents for comparison. The request may relate to the document (s), pages and / or metadata not yet processed through any one or more of one of the systems: analyzer, colligator or document tyler. In an optimal embodiment, the document comparison system may, as a result of the request, at least, among other things, call the appropriate analyzer, colligator and / or document tyler to process the document (s), pages and metadata in the manner described above. In one example, a document comparison system can also compare (s) the first page of the source (s) and the corresponding second page of the source (s), with the result of each comparison in various examples being a page (page with the result of comparison) similar to the corresponding pages source. The document comparison system may call the appropriate analyzer, colligator and / or document tyler to process the comparison page (s), for example, as described above. The document comparison system can then save the final collection of panoptically visualized documents and the included or separate page (s) of the comparison result and associated metadata in the corresponding data store.

FIG. 3 illustrates a document composition system 300 in accordance with one illustrative embodiment. As indicated above, the document composition system 300 is one example of a document composition system 104 as part of the panoptic imaging system 100 of FIG. A document layout system can generally be configured to create layouts of panoptically ordered, logically related pages from a collection of panoptically visualized documents. This collection may be, for example, a collection created by the document collection system 102, or more specifically, in one example, the document collection system 200 of FIG. 2.

As shown in FIG. 3, a document composition system 300 may include a search engine 302, a query interface, or the like, configured to receive a request for media content and identify one or more pages including the requested media content. The identified page may be from a collection of panoptically visualized documents having a plurality of pages, each of which includes corresponding media content and has associated metadata providing information about the corresponding page. Pages and metadata can be stored in respective data storages 304, 306, which in one example may coincide with the corresponding data storages 206, 208 shown in FIG.

The search engine 302 may be configured to identify the page (or pages) in various ways, for example based on the associated metadata of the pages of the collection. For example, the query may include a keyword that is appropriate or otherwise relevant to the object or element of the page (or pages) of the collection. Then, upon request, the search engine may be configured to search the metadata repository 306 for related metadata of one or more pages, including media content that is relevant or relevant to the request.

The document composition system 300 may also include a layout engine 308, a layout generator, or the like connected to the search engine 302 and configured to select a layout scheme (presentation style) from a variety of layout schemes for panoptically arranged multiple pages including an identifiable page. Layout schemes can be maintained in appropriate repositories such as file storage, database storage, cloud storage or the like, and can be formatted and saved in any other way depending on the respective storage.

Layout schemes may include any layout schemes for panoptic page ordering. As indicated above and further discussed below, examples of suitable layout schemes include a brick wall, a partial brick wall, a hierarchical layout, a shape, a centrifugal layout, a top-down / triangulated layout, a centrifugal triangulated layout, a dominated layout size, with overlapping fragment, with hierarchy in depth, with the form of loading, mesh layout, multimedia / static-dynamic layout or similar. Other examples may include combinations of several of the above layout schemes.

The arrangement engine 308 may be configured to select a layout scheme in any manner. In one example, the layout mechanism may be configured to select a layout scheme in accordance with the associated metadata of the identified page. The search engine 302 may therefore be configured to associate the associated metadata of the identifiable page with a layout engine, which, in turn, may be configured to select a layout scheme according to corresponding associated metadata.

As described above, the associated page metadata can provide information about the type of document for which the page is a component and / or information about the media content of the page. Further, in one example, the layout engine 308 may be configured to select a layout scheme in accordance with the type of document for which the identified page is a component (e.g., an automatically designed document, presentations, a graphic document, a video document, a regulatory document, a book, article, web page, flow chart (s), technical drawing (s), wiring diagram (s), etc.). In another example, the layout mechanism may be configured to select a layout scheme in accordance with the media content of the identified page, such as one or more of its objects and / or elements.

As also described above, the associated page metadata may include information identifying the relationship (s) between the page and the other collection page (s). Therefore, the layout engine 308 is also configured to retrieve the identified page and another page (or pages) identified in accordance with the associated metadata for the identified page. These pages can be extracted from the corresponding data warehouse 304.

The arrangement engine 308 may be configured to arrange the layout of the extracted pages, pan-optically ordered according to the selected layout scheme, the extracted pages and associated metadata. Then, in addition to page retrieval, the linking mechanism in one example may also be configured to receive related metadata, for example, from the corresponding data store 306. The layout mechanism may also be configured to communicate the layout, for example, with a GUI in which the layout may be displayed, or with a printer to obtain a layout printout.

As suggested, the layout can specify the panoptic ordering of the extracted pages in accordance with the selected layout scheme. In the layout scheme, each page can have a specific size, location and / or depth (ordering by Z). The size, location and / or depth of each layout page can be absolute or specified relative to another page (or pages) of the layout and can be specified, or otherwise determined in different ways. In one example, dimensions, locations, and / or depths may be indicated, or otherwise determined, from a description of a layout scheme selected from a variety of schemes. Additionally or alternatively, for example, the associated metadata of each layout page may provide information indicating its size, location and / or depth (ordering by Z) in the layout, as discussed above. In these examples, the layout engine 308 may be configured to create a layout in accordance with the sizes, locations, and / or depths indicated by the selected layout scheme and / or associated metadata of the layout pages.

The aspect ratios of the pages can be their natural aspect ratios. In some cases, however, the layout scheme may indicate, or otherwise specify, for each of one or more pages, an aspect ratio different from the natural aspect ratio of the corresponding page. In these cases, the layout engine 308 may be configured to further create a layout in accordance with various, unnatural proportions (s) of the sides of the page (or pages).

In yet another example, one or more layout pages may be in a configuration including visual representations (e.g., fragments of an image) at appropriate resolutions. For each of these pages, the layout engine 308 may be configured to retrieve the page for visual presentation with a resolution that exactly or nearly exactly matches the size indicated by the selected layout and / or related metadata. This may include, for example, extracting a fragment of a page image with or near the appropriate resolution.

The layout created by the layout engine 308 can be dynamically created in accordance with the selected layout scheme so that a different page layout can be implemented by changing the selected layout scheme. The different layout can also be implemented in other ways, for example, methods based on the associated metadata of the layout pages or one or more time factors. In one example, the layout mechanism may therefore be made with the additional possibility of receiving a request for providing various panoptic schemes of the extracted pages. In this example, the layout mechanism may be configured to select various layout schemes from a plurality of layout schemes upon receipt of a request. The layout mechanism may also be configured to create various layouts of the extracted pages. This may include a layout engine configured to panoptic reorder the extracted pages according to a different layout scheme, as well as the extracted pages and the associated metadata of the extracted pages.

In the various examples described in more detail below, the page and metadata corresponding to the repositories 304, 306, and the layout engine 308 may be included in or linked to a document comparison system, such as a document comparison system 108. In these examples, a document comparison system may invoke a layout mechanism to select a layout scheme and generate a layout of the first page of the source (s) and the second page of the source (s) for comparison, for example, in the same or similar manner as described above or in another way described herein . In one example, a document comparison system may invoke a layout mechanism to generate a layout including the page (s) of the first source next to the page (s) of the second source. In another example, a document comparison system may invoke a layout mechanism to generate a page layout (or pages) of a comparison result obtained by a document comparison system with each page of a comparison result of a first source page and a corresponding second source page.

As indicated above, layout schemes can include any type of layout for panoptically ordered pages. In layout schemes, the logical relation (s) established by the link (s) between the pages can be expressed by arranging the pages either by location or by depth (ordering by Z), or by both options at the same time. In one example, logical relationships can be expressed by the proximity of pages to each other at their locations and / or at their relative depths. In addition, one or more layout schemes may define or imply a navigation path between documents linked to each other, and / or a loading form for loading layout pages created according to respective layout schemes. 6-17 are further discussed, where examples of suitable layout schemes are simplified. As shown above, these examples include a brick wall, a partial brick wall, a hierarchical layout, a shape, a centrifugal layout, a top-down / triangulated layout, a centrifugal triangulated layout, a size-dominant layout with overlapping fragment , with a hierarchy in depth, with the form of loading, mesh layout, multimedia / static-dynamic layout or similar.

FIG. 6 shows a brick wall arrangement 600 in accordance with one illustrative embodiment in which pages 602 can be arranged in one or more rows and in one or more columns. As shown, the brick wall layout model can be characterized by sequentially arranging pages one after another with an appropriate size and / or aspect ratio along one or more rows and / or columns. This type of layout scheme can be used for the usual search of results. In one example, the layout scheme can provide horizontal chapter orientation and vertical orientation along progressively increasing page lengths.

Although this is not shown separately, the partial brick wall layout may be taken into account as an expanded version of the brick wall layout 600. The partial brick wall layout model may be characterized by clusters of pages, which likewise may be the same in size and / or aspect ratio at least within the respective clusters. In this layout scheme, clusters can be linked through related metadata of the respective pages, such as through their media content, author, creation time, last modification, or the like.

7 shows a hierarchical layout diagram 700 in accordance with one illustrative embodiment in which pages can be arranged according to a hierarchy of location and / or size. A hierarchical relationship between pages (hierarchically linked pages) can be specified through the metadata associated with them in different ways. For example, a hierarchical relationship may be indicated by a parent-child relationship between pages. In another example, a hierarchical relationship may be indicated by an element-object or object-element relationship in which the element of one page higher in the hierarchy can be the object (s) of another page (or pages) of a lower hierarchy, and in which at least some of the corresponding other page (s) may be at the same hierarchy level. In this example, the object of one page may be a main image, and the object (s) of another page (s) may be a detailed image of the element (s) of the main image. In yet another example, a hierarchical relationship may be indicated by a relationship in which one page higher in the hierarchy includes link (s) or link (s) (e.g., quote, hyperlink, etc.) with another document (s) less hierarchy and in which at least some corresponding other document (s) may be at the same hierarchy level.

In one example of a hierarchical arrangement 700, pages of a higher hierarchy may be located above pages of a lower hierarchy (top to bottom) and / or may be larger than pages of a lower hierarchy. Pages in this layout may not be limited in size or aspect ratio. Pages of a higher hierarchy may dominate pages of a lower hierarchy, and pages of a lower hierarchy may be limited in the direction of the X axis by the width of the pages of a higher hierarchy.

In particular, for example, the tallest page 702 in the hierarchy can be located on top and can be sized to fit the full resolution of the page and its natural aspect ratio. The next highest page (s) 704 in the hierarchy can be located directly below the highest page with a size smaller than this same page, and with an aspect ratio that limits the next highest page (s) together to the width of the highest page. This pattern can be repeated for the third-highest page (s) 706 in the hierarchy, below the corresponding one of the following highest pages, for the fourth highest page (s) 708 in the hierarchy, and so on. This layout scheme may, in one example, provide a separate page with linked pages located beneath it, linked to from a corresponding page.

FIG. 8 is a view of a layout diagram 800 in accordance with one illustrative embodiment in which the diagram mimics the physical structure of a page, such as an aircraft or United States geography. In one example, pages 802 may be located within the boundaries of the visual representation 804 of the physical structure (two or three-dimensional representation), where the location of the page (s) may coincide with the ratio of its media content in the structure. For example, pages associated with the wingtip area of an aircraft (for example, by means of an object or element) may be located in the corresponding visual presentation area of the aircraft. In another example, pages related to court decisions of various states of the United States may be located in areas of visual representation of the United States that coincide with the states in which these decisions are made.

In the layout model 800, in some cases, one or more subsets of pages can be located in clusters 806 of the corresponding zones of the visual representation of the physical structure. In these cases, each of the clusters can be located in accordance with other layout schemes both in terms of location and page size of the cluster.

FIG. 9 shows a centrifugal arrangement 900 in accordance with one illustrative embodiment. This layout may have a dominant centrally located main page 902, such as a page identified by a search engine (e.g., search engine 302) that searches for media content. Pages 904 associated with the main page (e.g., hierarchically linked) may be 360 degrees around the main page. Pages in this layout may not be limited in size or aspect ratio. In one example, this layout scheme may show that the main page is linked to previous (top), subsequent (lower), and current (side) pages. An example of this type of layout can be a collection of documents or web pages that have cross-hyperlinks to pages that are a branch of the document tree that leads to the center, to the main page.

10, a top-down / triangulated arrangement diagram 1000 is shown in accordance with one illustrative embodiment. This layout may be similar to a combination of the brick wall layout 600 and the hierarchical layout 700 and may be described as hierarchically linked pages 1002 arranged from top to bottom. Like the brick wall layout, the pages in this layout may be limited by the size and / or aspect ratio of at least within the pages at the same level of the hierarchy, which may indicate the importance of the pages relative to each other. Similarly to the hierarchical layout scheme in one example, pages of a higher hierarchy may be located above (in the direction of the Y axis) page of a lower hierarchy, but unlike the hierarchical layout scheme, the widths of the lower pages may not be limited to higher pages in the direction of the X axis. In one of the top-down / triangulated examples, the layout scheme can provide a separate page as a node in the graph tree of related pages.

11 shows a centrifugal triangulated layout circuit 1100 in accordance with one illustrative embodiment. This arrangement may be characterized by a dominant centrally located main page 1102, similar to a centrifugal arrangement 900. In a centrifugal triangulated layout, pages 1104 associated with the main page (e.g., hierarchically linked) may be located above and / or below the main page. Also similar to a centrifugal layout page, a centrifugal triangulated layout page may not be limited in size or aspect ratio. A centrifugal triangulated layout may indicate that the main page is related to the previous (upper) and subsequent (lower) pages. An example of this type of layout can be a collection of documents or web pages that are linked by hyperlinks along with the top pages, which are a branch of the document tree that leads to the center, i.e. to the main page, and the bottom pages leading from the main page.

12 shows a dominant size layout diagram 1200 in accordance with one illustrative embodiment. This arrangement may be similar to the centrifugal arrangement 900. In this sense, a dominant size layout may have a dominant centrally located main page 1102 and pages 1104 connected to the main page (e.g., hierarchically linked) and arranged around the main page in 360 degree ordering. This layout scheme, however, may include more than one main page, which may be of the same size or different sizes, for example with the two pages 1202a, 1202b shown in the drawing. Pages in this layout may not be limited in size or aspect ratio. The page size in this layout may convey the weight or correspondence of the pages relative to each other. An example of this type of arrangement may be a collection of wiring diagrams that have associated link (s) or link (s) along all four axes of at least the main circuitry. Graphic / schematic wiring diagrams with links and links may themselves include relationships to additional circuits.

FIG. 13 shows a fragment overlap arrangement 1300 in accordance with one illustrative embodiment. This layout scheme is characterized by maintaining a hierarchical relationship between the pages in depth (ordering in Z), along which they are located. In one example, the page 1302 of a higher hierarchy may overlap another page 1304 of a lower hierarchy, which in turn may overlap another page 1306 of an even lower hierarchy. In this layout, pages having one or more common elements or other media content may overlap 1308 so that the common element (s) or other media content can be at least partially located one below the other through the pages.

Navigating a layout (or more specifically its visual presentation) may include zooming in or out. An increase in the layout scale of the “overlap fragment” layout scheme 1300 may include an increase in the size and, in some cases, one example, resolution of the layout pages. According to this layout scheme, however, increasing the layout scale may also include blocking the overlying page so that one or more overlapping pages (or rather, their overlapping segments) at the bottom of the layout can appear in the field of view. Conversely, reducing the layout scale may also include showing a blocked overlapping page so that the corresponding page appears in the field of view and one or more overlapped pages (or rather, their overlapped segments) go out of view. In one example, blocking a page may include increasing the transparency of the page (or decreasing its opacity) while increasing the size, and displaying the page may include increasing the opacity of the page (or decreasing its transparency) while decreasing the size.

In one example, as shown in FIG. 13, in a fragment overlapping layout diagram 1300 including pages 1302, 1304, 1306, page 1302 may be blocked as soon as the user zooms in on the layout. In addition, at some point during the enlargement, the corresponding page may no longer be visible, so that the layout includes only pages 1304, 1306. The enlargement can continue further, blocking the page 1304 until it disappears, and at that moment the layout includes only page 1306 itself. In these cases, the blocked pages may remain in the layout, or the layout engine 308 may be configured to remove them from the layout.

The discussion of the example in FIG. 13 is continued, in which only page 1306 is visible, and pages 1302, 1304 are obstructed, page 1304 may be shown overlapping page 1306 as soon as the user zooms out. At a certain point during the reduction, the corresponding page may be visible, so that the layout includes both pages 1304, 1306. The zoom out can continue, leading to the page 1302 showing until it is fully displayed, and at that moment the layout includes pages 1302, 1304, 1306 itself. In these cases, the overlapped pages (or their overlapped segments) may remain in the layout, or the layout engine 308 may be configured to remove them from the layout.

On Fig shows a diagram 1400 layout with a hierarchy in depth in accordance with one illustrative embodiment. This layout scheme is similar to the layout scheme 1300 with overlapping fragment in that the hierarchical relationship between pages can be maintained by their depth (ordering in Z). In this layout scheme, however, an overlapped page (e.g., a lower hierarchy) can be sized and positioned to fit perfectly with an overlapping page (e.g., a higher hierarchy).

Similar to fragment overlap layout scheme 1300, navigation in depth master layout diagram 1400 may include zooming in or out of the layout, which may further include blocking or displaying the overlapping page relative to the overlapped page. In the example shown in FIG. 14, layout navigation including pages 1402, 1404, 1406 may include blocking the overlapping page as soon as the user zooms in on the layout. Conversely, layout navigation may include showing a cover page as soon as the user zooms out the layout. In this sense, the implementation of the zoom function of the layout scheme with a hierarchy in depth of any number of pages can be similar to the implementation of page scaling, including any number of image fragments.

On Fig shows a diagram 1500 layout with a download form in accordance with one illustrative embodiments. This layout scheme may be similar to some other layout schemes (e.g., centrifugal, centrifugal triangulated), including the dominant, centrally located main page 1502 and pages 1504 connected to the main page (e.g. hierarchically linked) and arranged around, above and / or below it. Pages in this layout may not be limited in size or aspect ratio. The layout scheme with the download form may be characterized by the sequence of loading the layout (or more specifically its visual presentation). In this layout scheme, non-primary pages may be loaded first, followed by the main page.

An example layout scheme with a download form may be a plurality of media content pages linked in time, where pages of an older media content may be loaded in front of the main page of the latest media content. The sequence of media content in this context may relate to the temporal aspect of the object (s) or element (s) of media content. For example, pages (for example, pages 1504) with information preceding a court decision may be loaded before the court decision itself (for example, pages 1502). In another example, the sequence of media content may relate to the time the content was created, as in the case of downloading the initial draft of the document and one or more changes or corrections to the document (for example, pages 1504) before the final or current version of the document (for example, page 1502).

On Fig shows a mesh circuit 1600 layout in accordance with one illustrative embodiments. The layout honeycomb can be characterized by arranging the pages 1602 in a three-dimensional (3D) environment, for example a cellular 3D structure, such as a truncated icosahedron 1604. For example, each page can be created by a set of x, y, z coordinates with known corresponding orts. In addition, each page can be placed in the layout in accordance with the observation point. This layout scheme can be visually represented in three dimensions or can be converted into a corresponding two-dimensional (2D) layout, such as a transformed truncated icosahedron 1606.

17 shows a multimedia / static-dynamic layout circuit 1700 in accordance with one illustrative embodiment. This layout scheme may be a subset of one or more other layout schemes in which layout pages may include pages of mixed types of media. For example, this layout scheme may include one or more than one static ("S") page, for example in the case of text content or a still image, and one or more than one dynamic ("D") page, for example in the case of a video image. 17 shows an example of a multimedia / static-dynamic layout scheme with ordered multimedia content in an arrangement similar to the dominant size layout scheme 1200. As shown above, this arrangement may include dominant, centrally located main pages 1702a, 1702b and pages 1704 related to main pages (e.g., hierarchically connected) located around them.

Next, FIG. 4 is again considered, where a document navigation system 400 is shown in accordance with one illustrative embodiment. As indicated above, the document navigation system 400 may be one example of a document navigation system 106 as part of the panoptic imaging system 100 of FIG. A document navigation system can generally be configured to select and provide a navigation option (s) for moving layouts of panoptically ordered, logically related pages of a collection of panoptically visualized documents. In one example, it may include a collection obtained by a document collection system 102 (e.g., a document collection system 200). Additionally or alternatively, for example, it may include a layout created by the document composition system 104 (e.g., the document composition system 300).

As shown in FIG. 4, the document navigation system 400 may include a navigation mechanism 402 configured to accept the layout of the pages (document components) of a collection of pan-visualized documents. A collection can have many pages, each of which includes corresponding media content and has associated metadata providing information about the corresponding page. The layout may include panoptic ordering of the visual representations of the layout pages in accordance with the associated metadata of the respective pages.

The navigation mechanism 402 may also be configured to select one or more navigation options from a plurality of navigation options to move a layout in which navigation options can be selected according to related metadata for the layout pages. Navigation options can be specified in the appropriate data warehouse, such as data file storage, database storage, cloud storage or the like, and formatted and saved in any way depending on the corresponding data storage. Similarly, the metadata of the layout pages can be stored in the corresponding data store 404, which in one example may correspond to any of the data stores 208, 306, or both. The navigation mechanism may also be configured to transmit data to selected navigation options, such as a GUI, in which selected navigation options can be presented along with the layout.

In one example, the navigation mechanism 402 may be configured to select navigation options according to the type of document (s) whose layout pages are constituent,

which may be indicated in the linked page metadata. In one example, the navigation mechanism may be configured to select navigation options according to the media content of the layout pages, such as their object (s) and / or element (s), which may also be indicated in the associated metadata. Examples of suitable navigational layout options include command tools (e.g. pan, rotate, zoom, block / show, reset, etc.), annotation tools (e.g., chronological sequence / control point, leader, etc.). ), linking tools (hyperlink, quick link, hot spot, etc.), navigation path tools (for example, tracing, recording, etc.), metadata tools (for example, search, filter, frame, etc. ), page tools (e.g. poi a filter, calling the command, activation, size, location, dominance, logical relationship (s), etc.), the change pattern layout, co-navigation, hyper-hypo navigation, printing or the like.

Associated layout page metadata can explicitly or implicitly affect selected navigation options. In one example, associated metadata can be retrieved to directly influence the navigation options selected by the navigation engine 402. Additionally or alternatively, for example, related page metadata can affect the layout of these pages, for example, by influencing the selected layout scheme, according to which this layout can be created. In particular, for example, the layout of the pages can be created in accordance with the layout selected in accordance with the type of document (s) of the pages and / or media content of the pages. The layout may also affect the navigation options selected through the navigation mechanism. In the case of related metadata, either explicitly or implicitly affecting the selected navigation options, it can be said that the navigation mechanism selects the navigation options in accordance with the associated metadata of the layout pages.

The document navigation system 400 may also include a requesting interface 404 connected to the navigation mechanism 402 and configured to receive the request in accordance with one or more selected navigation options. The requesting interface may be configured to transmit the request to the navigation engine. The navigation mechanism may, in turn, be further configured to configure a visual representation of the layout upon request and in accordance with the request and upon transmission of the setting, for example, to the aforementioned GUI. In one example, the navigation mechanism may be configured to customize the visual presentation without adjusting the layout itself. In another example, the navigation mechanism may be configured to customize the visual presentation, including setting the layout.

As suggested above, the selected navigation options may be affected by the layout and / or its pages or, in one more specific example, the related metadata of the layout pages. In addition, in some cases, the layout of various pages can lead to the selection of one or more different navigation options. For example, it is believed that the navigation mechanism 402 can receive the layout of the first pages and the independent layout of the second pages at different times, with each layout including a panoptic arrangement of the respective pages. In this example, the navigation engine may select the first navigation options for the first layout and the second navigation options for the second layout. The first and second pages may include one or more common pages, and, in one example, may also include one or more different pages. In this example, the first and second layouts may be different at least due to the fact that the first and second pages include one or more different pages. In turn, the first and second navigation options selected by the navigation mechanism may include one or more different navigation options, and although the first and second navigation options are similar to the first and second pages, they may include one or more general navigation options .

In the various examples described in more detail below, the navigation mechanism 402 and the metadata storage 404 may be included in or linked to a document comparison system, such as a document comparison system 108. In these examples, a document comparison system may trigger a navigation mechanism to select a navigation option (s) and / or receive a request to make a layout setting and make this setting, as well as communicate with the setting, for example, in the same way as described above, or similar or in another way presented in this document.

The navigation mechanism 402 may be configured to select any number of different navigation options for page layout. Many layouts created in accordance with many different layout schemes and including pages of many different types of documents may include command tools such as pan, rotate, scale, block / display, the original state, or the like. In some cases, the segment, and not the entire layout, may be visible in the GUI in which the layout is depicted. This can be, for example, in cases where the layout size is larger than the visible area of the GUI (sometimes called the "field of view"), or in cases where the layout represents pages in a 3D environment (for example, in the case of a mesh layout scheme). In these cases, the navigation options may include panning and / or rotation to move the layout. The layout may include one or more pages included in the field of view, and additionally or alternatively include one or more pages emerging from the field of view. Layout pages in or out of view can be retrieved and displayed, while pages out of or out of view can be removed from the display. In addition, in cases in which only the page segment is in the field of view or enters the field of view and in which the pages are divided into tiles, only those tiles covering the visible segment of the page can be retrieved and displayed.

Command tools may also include zooming in and out of the layout and thus their pages, and may include zooming in or out of the layout. This increase or decrease in layout size may, in turn, include an increase or decrease in size (s) and, in some cases, one example, resolution (s) of its pages.

In one example, layout pages may include fragments of an image at appropriate resolutions of the page zoom levels. In this example, the layout may include, for each corresponding page, a fragment of the image of this page at a resolution that exactly or almost exactly matches the size indicated by the selected layout scheme and / or related metadata. In addition, an increase in the layout can be accomplished by replacing the image fragments of the pages with their corresponding image fragments with a higher level of scaling and, thereby, increased resolution. Conversely, a layout reduction can be accomplished by replacing the image portions of the pages with their corresponding image fragments with a lower level of scaling and, thus, a reduced resolution.

In various examples, scaling (zooming in or out) of a page or layout can be done in finer increments than are provided by the page zoom levels or one or more layout pages. The scaling of the page (as a separate or as part of the layout) can be reduced to an increment related to the fragment of the image of the page displayed on the screen, another fragment of the image of the page exactly or almost exactly corresponds to the enlarged / reduced page size. In these cases, for example, scaling can be performed by replacing a fragment of a page image with a corresponding fragment of a page image at a higher / lower resolution. In other cases, however, scaling can be reduced in increments pertaining to a portion of the image of the page being displayed, the same portion of the image of the page is still as close as possible to the enlarged / reduced page size. In these cases, for example, scaling can be performed by increasing the size of the image fragment of the page without replacing the image fragment with another fragment at a higher / lower resolution.

In another example, the page can not only include the corresponding image fragments, but image fragments at different zoom levels can be divided into progressively increasing number of tiles, each of which covers the spatial zone of the image fragment at the corresponding zoom level. In this example, the layout increase can be done by replacing the displayed tile (s) of its pages with an increased number of tiles covering the pages at a higher zoom level (s). Conversely, layout reduction can be accomplished by replacing the displayed tiles with one tile or a reduced number of tiles covering pages at a lower zoom level (s). Similar to panning the layout, increasing or decreasing the layout may include one or more pages of the layout included in the field of view, and may additionally or alternatively include one or more pages out of the field of view. These pages can be processed in a manner similar to panning the layout, but at a higher or lower zoom level (s).

In addition to increasing or decreasing the size / resolution of layout pages for one or more layouts, the zoom option may imply another or more other navigation options to further affect one or more pages. For example, fragment overlap layout diagram 1300 and master detail depth layout diagram 1400 may include block / show options in which overlapping pages can be hidden or shown relative to overlapped pages during enlargement and reduction, such as in the method described above with reference to FIGS. 13 and 14. However, it should be understood that the “block / show” options can be used to block or display one or more layout pages regardless of the zoom options and not The dependence of the pages overlapping.

The number of navigation options including the command tools described above can affect the adjustment of the visual layout. The reset option may therefore enable the user to return the visual representation to the initial state from the adjusted state.

Navigation options may include commentary tools such as chronological sequence / cue point, callout, or the like. These tools can provide the user with the ability to add layout comments and can be selected for a single layout from various layout schemes, including pages from many different types of documents. The chronological sequence / cue point option in various examples can in particular be applied to pages that are logically linked to each other in a time sequence. In one example, a “chronological sequence / key point” may affect a visualization added to a layout that can link layout pages as control points in a chronological sequence.

Navigation options may include linking tools such as a hyperlink, quick link, hot spot, or similar. According to the hyperlink option, one or more pages (each source) may include link (s) or link (s) to another page (s) or media content of another page (or pages) (page (s) or media content that is ( ))). The landing page (s) or media content may be in the same layout or in the same collection of panoptically visualized documents, but it may not be in the same layout. The target may even include page (s) or media content not in the same collection of panoptically visualized documents.

The hyperlink option may enable the source page to include content embedded in its media content that is linked to another or several other pages. In particular, sometimes it is called a hot call. The hyperlink option may also allow the user to navigate from the source page to one or more landing pages linked to the corresponding source page. In this sense, a hyperlink can be represented in any way: through text, a graphic image, or in a similar way. For example, the media content of one page can be formatted as a hyperlink to another page or the media content of another page. In particular, for example, an element depicted on one page can be formatted as a hyperlink to another page that also depicts an element, or more precisely, an element depicted on another page. This type of hyperlink is sometimes called an access point.

In addition to or instead of the foregoing, for example, navigation options may include navigation path tools such as tracking, recording, or the like. The navigation path in accordance with exemplary embodiments may be defined in any of a variety of different ways. In one example, the navigation path can be set by means of a sequence of user steps when panning, rotating, scaling and / or reinstalling the layout of one or several of its pages, navigating from one page to another or to media content (hyperlink), or influencing the layout setting (or rather on its visual representation) in another way. Navigation path tools can provide the ability to track and / or record a navigation path following a user, thereby creating a navigation history.

The navigation options of one example may include metadata tools, such as search, filter, insertion, or the like, that can work with related metadata for layout pages. Search and filter options can provide the user with the ability to search for a related layout for specific metadata or a filter for related metadata to include or exclude specific metadata. The insert option may provide the ability to insert specific metadata into a visual representation of the layout, for example, as a footnote that includes specific metadata associated with the page (s) for which the associated metadata includes specific metadata.

Navigation options may include page tools such as search, filter, check mark, activation, size, location, dominance, logical relation (s) or the like. Similar to metadata tools, search and filter options can enable the user to search for layout pages for a specific page (or pages) or specific media content. In this sense, search and filter options may imply related metadata for layout pages.

The checkmark option may provide the ability to apply one or more special effects on one or more pages to draw the user's attention to that page (s) in the layout. A special effect can be any effect from many different effects. Examples of suitable special effects include an opaque or translucent border of a noticeable color (e.g., yellow) around the page (or pages), an opaque or translucent visual object or figure smaller than the page (s) and overlapping it (them), or a translucent visual object or figure the same or larger than the page (s) and overlapping it (them) or similar to them. Examples of other suitable visual effects include an increase in the size of the page (or pages), animation applied to the page (s), or similar effects.

The special effect (s) can be triggered in any way, as well as the page (s) to which this effect (s) is applied. For example, a special effect (s) may be triggered to show a selection of one or more pages. In this example, the special effect (s) can be extended to the selected page (s). In this example, additionally or alternatively, the visual effect (s) can be extended to page (s) that have a specific logical relationship with the selected page (s) (for example, communication with a common document, object and / or element, adjacency, element-object, object- element, parent-child, link / link, specific user, etc.). In another example, the visual effect (s) can be extended to the page (s) to show the navigation path that the user has followed.

The activation option can be, in particular, applied to dynamic pages and can enable the user to initiate the activity of one or more pages, for example, through playback or another control method (for example, rewind, fast forward, level, mute, etc. .) video content that may be included in such page (s).

Size, location, and dominance options may provide the user with the option to resize or otherwise rebuild one or more layout pages, which may result in a different layout. These options can be applied to a number of different layouts for different layout schemes, including pages of many different types of documents. In one example, however, the dominance option can be, in particular, applied to layouts in accordance with a diagram including a dominant page layout, such as a hierarchical, dominant size, loading form, centrifugal, centrifugally triangulated, multimedia / static dynamic or similar to them.

The logical relationship option (s) may allow the user to add, delete, or otherwise change one or more logical relationships between pages, which may, in turn, lead to a change in page layout. These changes may or may not affect everything: from page layout navigation to the related metadata of those pages and any other similarly related pages. Thus, in one example, the changes may be temporary in the sense that they are applied only to the layout of the pages that are currently visually presented. In another example, the changes may be longer in the sense that they lead to corresponding changes in the associated page metadata, which can not only lead to a change in the current layout presented, but also other layouts created by including the corresponding pages.

Additional examples of navigation options may include layout changes, co-navigation, hyper-hypo navigation, listing, or the like. The option to change the layout scheme may allow the user to change the layout scheme, in accordance with which its visual representation is created. This option may result in a different layout by rearranging the pages according to a different layout. The joint navigation option may provide the opportunity for users of different instances of the same system to collaborate on page layout navigation, which could be created by one of the systems, but at the same time visually represented by both systems. The hyper-hypo navigation option may provide the ability to navigate between unique layout structures or other pages that may not be part of the same collection of panoptically visualized documents as between pages of this layout (hyper navigation), and / or the ability to navigate with a separate layout structure that changes as a result of that navigation (hypo navigation). Finally, the print option may allow the user to direct the visual presentation layout to the printer for printing.

Next, FIG. 5 is shown, which shows a document comparison system 500 in accordance with one illustrative embodiment. The document comparison system may be one example of a document comparison system 108 as part of the panoptic visualization system 100 of FIG. The document comparison system can be generally configured to directly compare two or more pages (source pages) of one or more documents that are or may be assembled as a collection of panoptically visualized documents. In one example, it may include a collection of a document collection system 102 (e.g., a document collection system 200). Additionally or alternatively, for example, it may include a collection whose layout the document composition system 104 creates (for example, the document composition system 300), and / or it may include a collection whose layout the navigation system 106 selects and provides it with navigation options by document (e.g., document navigation system 400).

As shown in FIG. 5, the document comparison system 500 may include repositories 502, 504 of page and metadata, respectively, and a comparison mechanism 506. The corresponding data repository may be configured to store a collection of panoptically visualized documents having multiple pages, each of which includes includes relevant media content and has associated metadata providing information about the corresponding page. In one example, repositories 502, 504 of pages and metadata, respectively, can be repositories 206, 208 shown in FIG. Again, in one example, repositories 304, 306 pages and metadata, respectively, shown in FIG. 3, can be repositories 206, 208.

The comparison mechanism 506 may be configured to receive a request to provide a result of comparing one or more pages of a first source with one or more pages of a second source of one or more documents. For example, a document comparison system may accept a request to provide a result of comparing one page of a first source with one or more pages of a second source. In another example, a document comparison system may accept a request to provide a result of comparing two or more pages of a first source with corresponding two or more pages of a second source. In this example, the pages of the first source may be located in the layout of the first source, and similarly, the pages of the second source may be located in the layout of the second source. The document comparison system in this example may therefore accept a request for a result of comparing page layouts of the first and second source of one or more documents.

In one example, the comparison engine may accept this request to provide a comparison result from the document collection system 102 (e.g., the document collection system 200). The request in this example may include page (s) of the first source, page (s) of the second source and their associated metadata, while at least the pages of the first and second source may be compressed or otherwise processed by a document collection system, such as described above.

In other examples, the comparison mechanism 506 may include or otherwise be connected to one or more document analyzers, colligators or tylers, such as a document analyzer 202, colligator 204 or a timer 210 of the document collection system 200. In one example, a request for a comparison result may include the document (s) received by the document parser, or in another example, it may include pages from the document parser in the collider. In another example, a request for a comparison result may include pages and metadata from the collator to the tyler. The comparison mechanism in these examples can call the appropriate document analyzer, colligator and / or tyler to process the document (s), pages and metadata in order to obtain a collection of panoptically visualized documents.

The comparison mechanism 506 may be configured to determine a comparison method, for example, based on a specified number of pages of a user data source or the like. In this sense, the comparison mechanism can conduct direct comparisons in different ways. For example, the comparison mechanism may be configured to directly present the page (s) of the first source next to the page (s) of the second source. In another example, the comparison mechanism may be configured to generate and visually compare the page (s) of the first source (s) and the corresponding page (s) of the second source.

In the example including the comparison result page (s), the comparison mechanism 506 may call the corresponding document analyzer 202, colligator 204 and / or tyler 210 to process each page of the comparison result, and this page and its resulting related metadata can be included in the collection panoptically visualized documents or isolated from it, including the corresponding pages of the first and second source. The comparison mechanism can store pages (including source pages) and metadata of a collection of panoptically visualized documents, as well as an included or a separate page (or pages) of the comparison result and metadata in the corresponding storages 502, 504. In one example, therefore, the page (s) of the result comparisons can be stored in the corresponding page repository, and its / their metadata can be stored in the corresponding metadata repository.

Comparison mechanism 506 may be configured to compare pages of the first and second source in any of a variety of different ways. In various examples, the comparison mechanism may be configured to compare the media content of the pages in accordance with any number of different, known algorithms for comparing data or comparing files that may result in a comparison page. For example, the comparison mechanism may be configured to compare several source code files, while related software implementations in several different modules may be shown side by side. Examples of selecting modules for comparison can be performed in different ways, for example, using methods based on the divergence of text and comparison algorithms, analysis of functional points, or similar.

In a more specific example, the comparison mechanism 506 may be arranged to position the image of the page of the first source (image of the first source) over the image of the corresponding page of the second source (image of the second source). The comparison result page may therefore include images of the first and second source with an image of the first source on top of the image of the second source. In this example, the comparison mechanism may be configured to modify the image of the first source to assign a certain transparency level to the corresponding image or its segment (for example, the background behind the visible media content) so that the image of the second source can be seen at the bottom. In addition, the comparison mechanism may be configured to modify the media content of any of the two images of the first or second source, or both together, so that their media content can be more easily distinguished. For example, the comparison mechanism may be configured to change the color, line weight, line type, or similar elements of the media content of either of the two images or both together so that the corresponding media content has different, distinguishable colors, line weights, line types, or the like.

For source pages in which collider 204 has identified links and retrieved, created, or otherwise provided related metadata, generating a comparison result page may also include a comparison engine 506 configured to create comparison metadata for pages of the first and second source that may lead to metadata. linked to the corresponding comparison page. For source pages in which the collator has not yet identified the links and has not retrieved, created, or otherwise provided the associated metadata, the comparison mechanism may call the collator to identify the links and retrieved, created, or otherwise provided metadata for the comparison page. In one example, links and metadata can be identified and extracted, created, or otherwise proposed, respectively, based on the source pages. In particular, the collator can be configured to identify links for the comparison page in accordance with the document (s), the type of document (s) and / or media content of the source pages and any other pages that may be associated with them in the same way as described above. Similarly, the collator can be configured to retrieve, create, or otherwise provide metadata for the pages of the comparison result, which includes identifiable links, information about the source pages or their media content, and the like, as described above. Additionally or alternatively, metadata may include comparison information. Comparison information may include, for example, the name or other identifier of the comparison page and / or author, the size and / or time the comparison was created, information about one or more content restrictions that apply or should be used for comparison, and the like.

For source pages in which Tyler 210 created image fragments and / or split image fragments into tiles (and / or compressed tiles), the comparison mechanism 506 can be configured to create a comparison result page from image fragments or their tiles, with the resulting page Comparison includes corresponding image fragments and tiles (and can be compressed). For source pages in which the tyler has not yet created image fragments or has not broken image fragments into tiles (or compressed tiles), the comparison mechanism can be configured to create a comparison page from source pages. The comparison mechanism can then call a tyler to create image fragments for the comparison result page and break the image fragments into tiles (possibly compressed tiles) as described above.

As part of the request for comparison, or independently of it, the comparison mechanism 506 of the document comparison system 500 may accept the request for the result of comparing the page (s) of the first source and the page (s) of the second source. The comparison mechanism may include a composition mechanism or may be connected in another way to a composition mechanism, such as a composition mechanism 308 of a document composition subsystem 300. The layout mechanism can be configured to select the layout scheme and create the layout of the page (s) of the first source, page (s) of the second source and / or page (s) of the result of their comparison with any other logically linked pages (or without them), panoptically ordered , in the same way, or in almost the same way as in the above. In one example, the layout mechanism may be configured to create a layout that includes the first page (s) of the source next to the page (s) of the second source. In another example, the layout mechanism may be configured to create a page layout (s) of the result of comparing the page (s) of the first source and the page (s) of the second source.

The layout mechanism may be configured to arrange the page (s) of the comparison result in accordance with the selected layout scheme. Similarly, the layout mechanism can be configured to create a layout with adjacent page (s) of the first and second source in accordance with the selected layout scheme. In a more specific example, the layout mechanism may be configured to create the layout of the first source for the pages of the first source in accordance with the selected layout scheme. Similarly, the layout mechanism may be configured to arrange the layout of the second source for the pages of the second source in accordance with the selected layout scheme. The layout mechanism may also create a layout including the layout of the first source next to the layout of the second source.

In one example, in which the comparison result page (s) and / or the source page (s) includes image fragments, the comparison engine 506 may link related metadata from the metadata store 504 to the layout engine prior to requesting the provision of the page (s) from the repository of 502 pages. The layout mechanism may also be configured to identify the fragment (s) of the image of the page (s) that matches or nearly matches the size (s) indicated by the selected layout scheme and / or associated metadata, and may directly or otherwise call the comparison mechanism to request the identifiable fragment (s) of the image from the page store to create the layout.

The comparison mechanism 506 can be configured to link the layout of the page (s) of the first source, page (s) of the second source and / or page (s) of the result of their comparison, and possibly any other logically related pages. For example, the comparison mechanism may be configured to associate a layout with a GUI in which the layout can be displayed (for example, simultaneously displayed). Additionally or alternatively, for example, the comparison mechanism may be configured to communicate the layout with the printer to produce a printout including the layout.

In one example, the comparison engine 506 may further include a navigation mechanism or is otherwise connected to a navigation mechanism, such as a navigation mechanism 402 of a document navigation system 400. In this example, the corresponding navigation mechanism may be configured to select one or more navigation options from a plurality of options for navigating the layout created by the layout mechanism included in or connected to the comparison mechanism. The navigation mechanism may also be configured to receive a request in accordance with one or more selected navigation options, to adjust the layout (and / or metadata records) as a result and in accordance with the request, and to communicate with the regulatory device. In this example, a comparison mechanism or navigation mechanism may receive a request directly or through a suitable requesting interface (e.g., requesting interface 404).

Navigation options can be selected in different ways, the same as described above, or similar. The comparison engine 506 may also be configured to transmit data to selected navigation options, such as a GUI, in which selected navigation options can be presented along with the layout. Selected navigation options may include any one or more of the options described above.

To further illustrate demonstration embodiments of the present invention, FIGS. 18-24 depicting typical layouts of pages that can be displayed in a GUI having a predetermined visible area and which can be moved by a user, in accordance with an illustrative embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 18-20 show an example layout in accordance with the hierarchical diagram 700 depicted in the GUI with a predefined visible area 1800 for representing the layout. As shown, the layout in accordance with the hierarchical layout may include multiple pages 1802, each of which, in one example, may be a fragment of the image of the page with the appropriate resolution. Different fragments of the page image may have different layout resolutions: page 1804

has a higher resolution than pages 1806, which in turn have a higher resolution than pages 1808, which in turn have a higher resolution than pages 1810.

Pages in the layout can be arranged and / or sorted by size in accordance with the logical relationship (s) between the pages. In the example shown, pages 1802 are technical drawings of an aircraft and may have an element-object relationship. More specifically, for example, the page element (s) at the hierarchy level can be the object (s) of pages hierarchically located below it, while the object (s), in one example, being an additional fragment, refers to the element (s).

In particular, for example, page 1804 may depict a glider view of an entire aircraft. Pages 1806 may depict the bow compartment, chassis, window, engine assembly, and tail assembly. Pages 1808 may depict additional details about the content of the corresponding page objects 1806, and pages 1810 may depict additional details about the content of the corresponding page objects 1808. However, in the visible area 1800, pages 1808, 1810 can be presented with a resolution in which only the user recognizes their media content. partially or not recognized at all. Of course, in other exemplary embodiments, pages 1808 and / or pages 1810 may be provided with sufficient resolution to interpret essentially all of their media content.

The GUI may represent one or more selected navigation options for navigating page layouts 1802. In this demo, the panoramic and zoom options can be presented as controls 1812 to move and / or enlarge pages in the visible area 1800 to focus on a segment 1814 layouts. In other words, the user can use the aforementioned controls to move and / or scale the layout to fill a larger segment of the GUI visible area with some layout segment. On Fig shows an example of the result of navigation layout in this way.

As shown in FIG. 19, as soon as the user engages the controls 1812 to focus on the layout segment 1814, the page size 1804-1810 may increase and this increase, in one example, may include replacing fragments of the image of pages 1804-1808 with the corresponding fragments of a higher resolution image. The resolution of the image fragments may enable the user to interpret essentially all of the presented media content. From this point of view, however, pages 1810 may not be presented with sufficient resolution for interpretation by the user, because the size of the respective pages may not be increased to the level of replacement with the next image fragment. This means that even after increasing the size of the image, the size can still very accurately approximate the same image fragment, so as not to lead to its replacement by the next image fragment with a higher resolution. In this demo, the user can again use the controls 1812 to move and / or resize the image to focus on an already smaller layout segment 1902.

One example of a result of navigating a layout to focus on a segment 1902 is shown in FIG. In one example, the visible area 2000 of the GUI may be resized to more fully represent the focused segment of the layout. As soon as the user engages the controls 1812 to focus on the layout segment 1902, the page size 1804-1810 may increase and this increase, in one example, may further include replacing the image portions of the page 1810 with the corresponding higher resolution image fragments. The media content on page 1810 may now be sufficient for user interpretation. In one example, in which only the page segment 1804 is inside the visible area of the GUI and in which the corresponding page is divided into tiles, only those tiles covering the visible segment of the corresponding page can be retrieved and displayed.

21 shows an example layout in accordance with a brick wall layout diagram 600 shown in a GUI that has a predetermined visible area 2100. The layout may include pages 2102-2110. In the example shown, layout pages are wiring diagrams that can be connected by a spatial sequence. In this sense, page 2102 may depict wire (a) which is connected to wire (s) depicted on page 2104. Page 2104 may in turn depict wire (a) which is connected to wire (s) depicted on page 2106, and so on: wire (a) of page 2106 with wire (s) on page 2108 and wire (a) on page 2108 with wire (s) on page 2110.

Layout pages located entirely within the visible area 2100 of the GUI may form or otherwise define the area under consideration 2112. In one example, pages within the area under consideration may be presented with increased resolution for any pages outside the area under consideration. As shown, the area in question may include pages 2102-2108, but because only part of the page 2110 is inside the visible area of the GUI, page 2110 can be considered outside the area in question (although it can nevertheless be considered as being inside the visible area ) In this case, page 2110 may be presented with a lower resolution than pages 2102-2108.

FIG. 22 shows an example layout in accordance with a “fragment overlap” layout scheme 1300 shown in a GUI that has a predetermined visible region 2200. As shown, the layout includes pages 2202, 2204, wherein page 2202 may include a link to page 2204. As shown, this hierarchical relationship can be defined by a layout in which page 2204 (of a higher hierarchy) can partially overlap page 2202, and in one example, page 2204 can overlap page 2202 at its coordinate position nat on the corresponding page. As also shown, page 2204 may be presented in a smaller size than page 2202, and therefore, may be presented with a lower resolution than page 2202.

In particular, in the context of comparison between two or more source pages, FIG. 23 shows another example of a layout segment displayed in a GUI that has a predetermined visible area 2300. As shown, the layout may include a comparison result page 2302 for pages of the first and a second source, which in one example may be a fragment of the image of the page of the comparison result at the appropriate resolution. In the example shown, the page of the comparison result can be obtained by overlaying the image of the first source belonging to the page of the first source over the image of the second source belonging to the page of the second source. The background image of the first source can be set by the transparency level so that the image of the second source is visible. In addition, the media content of the image of the first source can be modified to change the type of its lines to distinguish it from the media content of the image of the second source, extremely quickly identified by the image segment of the first source (shown at 2304) not found in another way in the image of the first source. Also similar to the foregoing, the GUI may present one or more selected navigation options for navigating page layouts, such as controls 2306, in order to move and / or increase page size in the visible area to focus on the layout segment.

On Fig shows another example in the context of comparing two or more pages of the source. 24 includes a segment of a layout displayed in a GUI with a predetermined visible area 2400. However, instead of a comparison result page for pages of the first and second source, the layout of FIG. 24 includes a first source page 2402 next to the second source page 2404, each of which in one example may be a fragment of the image of the corresponding page with the appropriate resolution. In the shown example, similarly to the arrangement in Fig. 23, the media content of the image of the first source can be modified to change the type of its lines to distinguish it from the media content of the image of the second source. And this time, the GUI may present one or more selected navigation options for navigating the layout, such as controls 2406, in order to move and / or increase page size in the visible area to focus on the layout segment.

According to exemplary embodiments of the present invention, the panoptic visualization system 100 and its subsystems including a document collection system 102, a document composition system 104, a document navigation system 106 and a document comparison system 108 can be implemented by various means. Similarly, examples of a document collection system 200, a document composition system 300, a document navigation system 400, and a document comparison system 500, each of which includes its respective elements, can be implemented by various means in accordance with illustrative embodiments. The means for implementing systems, subsystems, and their corresponding elements may include hardware that operates autonomously or under the control of one or more computer program code instructions, program instructions, or executable instructions of computer-readable program code from a computer-readable storage medium.

In one example, one or more devices may be provided to perform a function or other method for implementing the systems, subsystems, and related elements shown and described herein. In examples involving more than one device, the respective devices can be connected to each other in different ways, such as directly or indirectly via a wired or wireless network or similar methods.

In general, an apparatus of illustrative embodiments of the present invention may comprise, include, or be implemented in one or more stationary or portable electronic devices. Examples of suitable electronic devices include a smartphone, a computer tablet, a laptop computer, a desktop computer, a workstation, a server computer, or the like. A device may include one or more components, such as, for example, a processor (e.g., a processor unit) connected to a memory (e.g., a storage device).

A processor is generally any piece of hardware that is able to process information, such as, for example, data, machine-readable program code, instructions, or the like (generally “computer programs,” for example, software, firmware, etc.). e.), and / or other suitable electronic information. In particular, for example, a processor may be configured to execute computer programs that may be stored in a processor or otherwise stored in memory (of the same or another device). A processor may be multiple processors, a multi-core processor, or some other type of processor, depending on the particular implementation. In addition, the processor can be implemented through several heterogeneous processor systems in which the main processor is present along with one or more additional processors on the same chip. As another illustrative example, the processor may be a symmetric multiprocessor system containing multiple processors of the same type. In another example, the processor can be implemented in the form of one or more specialized integrated circuits (SIS), programmable by the user, gate array (PPVM) or similar. Thus, although a processor may execute a computer program to perform one or more functions, in various examples, a processor may perform one or more functions without the aid of a computer program.

A memory is generally any piece of hardware that is capable of storing information such as, for example, data, computer programs and / or other suitable information on a temporary and / or permanent basis. The memory may be volatile and / or non-volatile and may be built-in or removable. Examples of suitable memory include random access memory (RAM), read-only memory (ROM), hard disk drive, flash memory, flash drive, removable computer diskette, optical disk, magnetic tape, or some combination thereof. Optical discs can be ROM on a compact disc (CD-ROM), rewritable compact disc (CD-R / W), DVD, or the like. In some cases, the memory can be called a computer-readable storage medium, which, as a non-transmitting device capable of storing information, may differ from a computer-readable transmission medium, such as electronic transmitted signals, capable of transferring information from one location to another. Computer-readable media, as described herein, can generally be referred to as computer-readable storage media or computer-readable transmission media.

In addition to memory, the processor can also be connected to one or more interfaces for displaying, transmitting and / or receiving information. Interfaces can be a communication interface (for example, a data transmission device) and / or one or more user interfaces. The communication interface may be configured to transmit information, for example, to another device (a), a network (s) or similar device and / or to receive information from them. The communication interface may be configured to transmit and / or receive information through a physical (wired) and / or wireless communication line. Examples of suitable communication interfaces include a network controller, a wireless network controller, or the like.

User interfaces may include a display and / or one or more user input interfaces (e.g., an input / output device). The display may be configured to present or otherwise show information to the user, suitable examples of which include a liquid crystal display (LCD), LED display (LED), plasma panel (PDP), or the like. The user input interface may be wired or wireless and may be configured to receive information from a user and transmit to a device, such as a device for processing, storing and / or presenting data. Suitable examples of the user input interface include a microphone, a photo and video capture device, a keyboard or a dedicated keyboard, joystick, touch surface (separate or integrated in the touch screen), a biometric sensor, or the like. User interfaces may further include one or more interfaces for communicating with peripheral devices, such as printers, scanners, or the like.

As indicated above, the program code instructions can be stored in memory and executed by the processor to implement the functions of the systems, subsystems, and their corresponding elements described in this document. It is clear that any suitable program code instructions can be downloaded to a computer or other programmable device from a computer-readable storage medium to obtain specific equipment, as a result of which this specific equipment becomes a means of implementing the functions specified in this document. These program code instructions can also be stored on a computer-readable storage medium that can orient a computer, processor, or other programmable device to a specific job, thereby creating specific equipment or a specific product. Instructions stored on a computer-readable storage medium may produce an industrial product that becomes a means of implementing the functions described herein. Program code instructions may be extracted from a computer-readable storage medium to a computer, processor, or other programmable device to configure a computer, processor, or other programmable device to perform operations that must be performed by a computer, processor, or other programmable device.

The extraction, loading and execution of program code instructions can be carried out sequentially so that one instruction is extracted, loaded and executed at once. In some illustrative embodiments, the extraction, loading and / or execution can be performed in parallel so that several instructions are extracted, loaded and / or executed together. Execution of program code instructions may give rise to a processing method embodied in a computer, as a result of which instructions executed by a computer, processor, or other programmable device provide operations for implementing the functions described herein.

Execution of instructions by a processor or storage of instructions in a computer-readable storage medium supports a combination of operations for performing these functions. It should also be understood that one or more functions and their combinations can be implemented through specialized systems and / or processors based on a hardware computer that perform these functions, or through a combination of specialized hardware instructions and software code.

As discussed above, illustrative embodiments of the present invention allow the collection, layout and / or navigation of a large number of pages (or documents). Illustrative embodiments may provide the user with the ability to simultaneously and quickly view and visually search for a large number of pages, while using less bandwidth than when retrieving all pages. In cases where the user can generally have a concept of the appearance of the page (or pages) of interest or have a concept of the logical relationship between the corresponding page (s) and other pages, the page layout can be created and / or moved to allow the user to arrange in a certain place and use the page (s) of interest. The user can observe and move the pages as if they were located in the material world without the need for a physical space containing large collections of pages.

Another illustrative embodiment includes a computer-readable storage medium with computer-readable segments of program code stored in it, which, when executed by a processor, actuates the device at least: directly comparing two or more document components, each of which includes a corresponding media content and has associated metadata providing information about the relevant document component; creating a layout of a panoptically ordered visual representation of document components or comparing them in accordance with the layout scheme and in accordance with the associated metadata; and data transfer layout. Alternatively, a computer-readable storage medium drives a direct comparison of the components of two or more

documents, including creating a layout containing the first document. In a further embodiment, the computer-readable storage medium directs the comparison of several components of the first document with several components of the second document, the device actuated to create the layout includes the act of creating the first layout of the components of the first document, the second layout of the components of the second document and layout, including the first layout next to the second layout. In an alternative modification, when the processor executes (the content of the medium), the device can lead to comparing the component of the first document and one or more components of the second document, the component of the comparison result including overlaying the media content of the component of the first document over the media content of one or more components of the second document, and powered to create the layout includes the act of creating a layout including a component t comparison result.

In an alternative embodiment, the device can be started to directly compare the component of the first document with the component of the second document, including starting a direct comparison of several components of the first document with several components of the second document, the device running to perform the comparison includes starting several comparison operations components of the first document with the corresponding one or more components of the second document, and device in, for creating a running arrangement includes start creating arrangement comprising components comparison result.

An embodiment of a computer-readable storage medium is provided in which a visual presentation of document components is launched with the appropriate resolution of the corresponding document component or comparison result, and the associated metadata provides information indicating at least the size of the visual representation of the comparison result in the layout, for each of the document components or a comparison result, the device running to create the layout includes USH document extraction component or the comparison result for the visual representation with a resolution that is appropriate for the size indicated by information provided in associated metadata.

An embodiment is proposed in which, for each of the components of a document or comparison result, visual representations include visual representations at resolutions corresponding to the zoom levels of the document component or comparison result, the visual representations being divided by zoom levels into a progressively increasing number of tiles, each of which covers the spatial the visual presentation area at the appropriate zoom level, and in which for each from the components of a document or a comparison result, a device running to retrieve a component of a document or a comparison result includes starting extraction of visual presentation tiles with a resolution that is suitable for the size indicated by the information provided in the associated metadata.

Specialists in the art will have many other embodiments of the invention that give the economic effect of introducing the ideas presented in the above descriptions and the attached drawings. Thus, it should be understood that the invention is not limited to specific illustrative embodiments, and that other embodiments are intended to be included within the scope of the appended claims. In addition, although the above descriptions and the annexed drawings describe illustrative embodiments with reference to specific illustrative combinations of features and / or functions, it should be appreciated that various combinations of features and / or functions may be offered through alternative embodiments within the scope of the appended claims. In this sense, for example, it is also contemplated that various combinations of features and / or functions other than those explicitly described above may be presented in certain claims. Although specific terms are used in this document, they are used only in a general and descriptive sense, and not for the purpose of limitation.

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1. A system for comparing panoptically visualized documents, comprising:
a comparison mechanism configured to directly compare two or more components of a document, each of which includes corresponding media content and has associated metadata providing information about the corresponding component of the document; and
a layout mechanism included in or associated with the comparison mechanism, wherein the layout mechanism is configured to create a layout of a panoptically ordered visual representation of the document components or the result of their comparison in accordance with the layout scheme and associated metadata,
however, the comparison mechanism is configured to transmit data to the layout. 2. The system of claim 1, wherein the comparison mechanism, configured to directly compare two or more components of the document, provides the ability to directly compare a component of the first document with one or more components of the second document, and
in which the layout mechanism, configured to create a layout, provides for the possibility of creating a layout that includes a component of the first document, located next to one or more components of the second document. 3. The system of claim 2, wherein the comparison mechanism configured to directly compare the component of the first document with the component of the second document provides for the direct comparison of several components of the first document with several components of the second document, and
in which the layout mechanism, configured to create a layout, provides for the possibility of creating a first layout for the components of the first document, a second layout for the components of the second document, and a layout including the first layout next to the second layout. 4. The system of claim 1, wherein the comparison mechanism, configured to directly compare two or more components of the document, provides the ability to directly compare a component of the first document with one or more components of the second document,
in which the document comparison mechanism is made with the additional possibility of creating a component of the result of comparing documents from a component of the first document and one or more components of the second document, wherein the component of the result of comparing the document includes the result of superimposing the media content of the component of the first document on top of the media content of one or more components of the second document, and
in which the layout mechanism, configured to create a layout, provides the ability to create a layout containing a component of the result of the comparison of the document. 5. The system of claim 4, wherein the comparison mechanism, configured to directly compare a component of the first document with a component of the second document, provides the ability to directly compare many components of the first document with many components of the second document,
in which the document comparing mechanism, configured to perform the comparison, provides for the possibility of performing multiple comparisons of the components of the first document and the corresponding one or more than one component of the second document, and
in which the layout mechanism, configured to create a layout, provides the ability to create a layout containing components of the result of comparing the document. 6. The system according to claim 1, in which each of the components of the document or the result of their comparison is in a state that includes visual representations with the appropriate permissions of the corresponding component of the document or comparison result, and the associated metadata provides information specifying at least the size of the visual representation of the comparison result in the layout, and
in which, for each of the components of the document or comparison result, the layout mechanism configured to create the layout provides the ability to retrieve the document component or comparison result for visual presentation with a resolution that is suitable for the size specified by the information provided in the associated metadata. 7. The system according to claim 6, in which for each of the components of the document or comparison result, visual representations include visual representations with permissions corresponding to the zoom levels of the document component or comparison result, while the visual representations are divided by zoom levels into a progressively increasing number of tiles , each of which covers the spatial area of the visual representation of the corresponding zoom level, and
in which for each of the components of the document or the comparison result, the layout mechanism, configured to retrieve the document component or the comparison result, provides the ability to extract visual presentation tiles with a resolution that corresponds to the size specified in the information provided in the associated metadata. 8. A method for comparing panoptically visualized documents, comprising:
direct comparison of two or more components of a document, each of which includes the corresponding media content and has associated metadata representing information about the corresponding component of the document;
creating a layout of a panoptically ordered visual representation of document components or the result of their comparison in accordance with the layout scheme and in accordance with the associated metadata; and
data transfer layout. 9. The method of claim 8, wherein directly comparing two or more components of the document, comprising directly comparing a component of the first document with one or more components of the second document, and
in which the layout includes creating a layout containing a component of the first document, located next to one or more components of the second document. 10. The method of claim 9, wherein directly comparing the component of the first document with the component of the second document, directly comparing the plurality of components of the first document with the plurality of components of the second document, and
in which the layout includes creating the first layout of the components of the first document, the second layout of the components of the second document and layout, including the first layout next to the second layout. 11. The method according to claim 8, in which the direct comparison of two or more components of the document includes a direct comparison of a component of the first document with one or more components of the second document,
in which the method further comprises creating a component of the result of comparing the document by comparing the component of the first document and one or more components of the second document, wherein the component of the result of comparing the document includes the result of overlaying the media content of the component of the first document on top of the media content of one or more components of the second document, and
in which the layout includes creating a layout containing a component of the result of the comparison of the document. 12. The method according to p. 11, in which direct comparison of the component of the first document with the component of the second document includes a direct comparison of many components of the first document with many components of the second document,
in which obtaining a comparison result includes obtaining a plurality of comparisons of the components of the first document and the corresponding one or more one component of the second document, and
in which the creation of the layout includes creating a layout containing components of the result of the comparison of the document. 13. The method according to claim 8, in which each of the components of the document or the result of their comparison is in a state that includes visual representations with the corresponding permissions of the corresponding component of the document or comparison result, and the associated metadata provides information indicating at least the size of the visual representation of the comparison result in the layout, and
in which for each of the components of the document or comparison result, creating a layout includes retrieving the component of the document or comparison result for a visual representation with a resolution that matches the size specified in the information provided in the associated metadata. 14. The method according to p. 13, in which for each of the components of the document or comparison result, visual representations include visual representations with permissions corresponding to the zoom levels of the document component or comparison result, while the visual representations are divided by zoom levels into a progressively increasing number of tiles, each of which covers the spatial area of the visual representation of the corresponding zoom level, and
in which for each of the components of the document or the result of the comparison, retrieving the component of the document or the result of the comparison includes retrieving the tiles of the visual presentation with a resolution that matches the size specified in the information provided in the associated metadata. 15. Machine-readable storage medium with segments of computer-readable program code stored in it, which, when executed by the processor, cause the device to at least:
directly compares two or more components of the document, each of which contains the corresponding media content and related metadata representing information about the corresponding component of the document;
creates a layout of a panoptically ordered visual representation of document components or the result of their comparison in accordance with the layout scheme and in accordance with the associated metadata; and
transfers data to the layout.

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