US 12,282,726 B2
Methods and devices for providing selectable and editable dyslexic-friendly readable images
Hillary Patience Summerbell, Lewes, DE (US); and Jeremy Dunsworth, Seattle, WA (US)
Assigned to Summerbell Reading Method, LLC, Lewes, DE (US)
Filed by Hillary Patience Summerbell, Lewes, DE (US); and Jeremy Dunsworth, Seattle, WA (US)
Filed on Oct. 2, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/062,541.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/988,729, filed on Mar. 12, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/074,448, filed on Sep. 3, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/080,714, filed on Sep. 19, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0286931 A1, Sep. 16, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 40/00 (2020.01); G06F 40/103 (2020.01); G06F 40/166 (2020.01)
CPC G06F 40/103 (2020.01) [G06F 40/166 (2020.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for converting linear formatted text into a non-linear, dyslexic-friendly readable text image using an electronic device comprising:
electronically reading or receiving linear formatted text;
serially converting characters from the linear formatted text into corresponding textual objects, a plurality of said textual objects positioned onto a non-linear, dyslexic-friendly readable text image using an electronic device, where said non-linear, dyslexic-friendly readable text image comprises,
(i) a surface or background portion;
(ii) a plurality of non-linear boundaries disposed on said surface and each aligned about a middle or center part thereof, wherein each said non-linear boundary is a curved line on said surface, each non-linear boundary on said surface having the same non-zero slope and parallel, and
(iii) said plurality of textual objects, said plurality of said textual objects created from said linear formatted text and serially disposed on said surface are adjacent to given non-linear boundaries of said plurality of non-linear boundaries, and centered along a given curved line between said given non-linear boundaries; and
displaying, on a display, said surface and said plurality of said textual objects disposed on said surface said plurality of said textual objects centered along said given curved line and between said given non-linear boundaries,
wherein a top part of a given textual object of said plurality of said textual objects is at a first distance from a first of said given non-linear boundaries positioned on said surface and above said given textual object,
wherein a bottom part of said given textual object of said plurality of said textual objects is at said first distance from a second of said given non-linear boundaries positioned on said surface and below said given textual object,
wherein said first and second given non-linear boundaries are separated by a second distance, said first distance being substantially one third of said second distance,
wherein said plurality of said textual objects serially disposed between said given non-linear boundaries along said given curved line, when greater than a line margin, spill over to another given curved line below said given curved line, said another given curved line receiving further serially disposed textual objects, and
wherein said given curved line and said another given curved line are not visible to a user on the display, and said plurality of non-linear boundaries may or may not be visible to the user on the display.