INHIBITING HYPENATION CLUSTERS IN AUTOMATED PARAGRAPH LAYOUTS

Patent №

US 7,401,290

Granted

2008-07-15

Filed 2001

Owner

ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED

Lab

AI components

2

ml · nlp

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

09799195

Methods and apparatus for inhibiting hyphenation clustering. In one aspect, the invention identifies a sequence of consecutive text lines, one or more of which end in hyphens, and calculates a hyphenation penalty value based on the number and proximity of hyphens within the sequence consecutive text lines. The hyphenation penalty can be aggregated with other format penalties to aid the identification of a paragraph layout having a best overall visual appearance.

AI classification

Natural language0.95
Machine learning0.75
AI hardware0.12
Planning0.11
Vision0.03
Speech0.01
Knowledge representation0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED

assignment · 116800683

Assignors

WORMLEY, MATTHEW A.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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