METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VISUALLY-BIASED SENSORY-ENHANCED E-READING
A method of synchronizing visual enhancement with e-reading content is provided. The method includes tracking eye movement of a user of an e-reader, providing a pre-defined visual indicator embedded within a portion of a story presented on the e-reader and responsive to the eye movement of the user being correlated with the pre-defined visual indicator, displaying an image which is associated with the portion of the story presented on the e-reader.
1 . A method of synchronizing visual enhancement with e-reading content, the method comprising:
tracking eye movement of a user of an e-reader;
providing a pre-defined visual indicator embedded within a portion of a story presented on the e-reader; and
responsive to the eye movement of the user being correlated with the pre-defined visual indicator, displaying an image which is associated with the portion of the story presented on the e-reader.
2 . The method as recited by claim 1 , further comprising:
providing a pre-defined background visual indicator embedded within a portion of a story presented on the e-reader; and
responsive to the eye movement of the user being correlated with the pre-defined background visual indicator, broadcasting a background image file which is associated with the portion of the story presented on the e-reader.
3 . The method as recited by claim 1 , further comprising:
providing a pre-defined momentary visual indicator embedded within a portion of the story presented on the e-reader; and
responsive to the eye movement of the user being correlated with the pre-defined momentary visual indicator, broadcasting a momentary audio file associated with the portion of the story presented on the e-reader.
4 . The method as recited by claim 1 , further comprising:
tracking the eye movement of the user at a line-by-line granularity.
5 . The method as recited by claim 1 , further comprising:
tracking the eye movement of the user at a word-by-word granularity.
6 . The method as recited by claim 1 , further comprising:
providing a pre-defined new setting indicator embedded within a portion of a story presented on the e-reader; and
responsive to the eye movement of the user being correlated with the pre-defined new setting indicator, ceasing broadcast of the image.
7 . The method as recited by claim 1 , further comprising:
providing a pre-defined fade out indicator embedded within a portion of a story presented on the e-reader; and
responsive to the eye movement of the user being correlated with the pre-defined fade out indicator, fading out the broadcast of the audio file.
8 . A system that synchronizes visual enhancement with e-reader content on an e-reader, the system comprising:
a camera that tracks an eye movement of a user of the e-reader;
a gaze to pre-defined visual enhancement indicator region correlation logic correlates a gaze of the user with a visual enhancement file embedded within a portion of a story presented on the e-reader; and
an operation implementation responsive to gaze logic implements presentation of the visual enhancement file in response to the gaze being correlated with the pre-defined visual enhancement indicator region.
9 . The system of claim 8 , wherein the visual enhancement file embedded within the portion of the story is an animation.
10 . The system of claim 8 , wherein the visual enhancement file embedded within the portion of the story is a picture file.
11 . The system of claim 8 , wherein the camera tracks the eye movement of the user of the e-reader at a line-by-line granularity.
12 . The system of claim 8 , wherein the camera tracks the eye movement of the user of the e-reader at a word-by-word granularity.
13 . The system of claim 8 , wherein the gaze to pre-defined visual enhancement indicator region correlation logic correlates the gaze of the user with a new setting indicator region embedded within another portion of the story presented on the e-reader; and
the operation implementation responsive to gaze logic ceases the presentation of the visual enhancement file in response to the gaze being correlated with the new setting indicator region.
14 . The system of claim 8 , wherein the gaze to pre-defined visual enhancement indicator region correlation logic correlates the gaze of the user with a pre-defined fade out indicator region embedded within another portion of the story presented on the e-reader; and
the operation implementation responsive to gaze logic fades out the presentation of the visual enhancement file in response to the gaze being correlated with the pre-defined fade out indicator region.
15 . The system of claim 8 , wherein the visual enhancement file embedded within a portion of a story presented on the e-reader is a stand-alone add on file for a pre-existing e-book file.
16 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a hardware processor of a computing device, cause the hardware processor to perform a method of synchronizing visual enhancement with e-reading content, the method comprising:
tracking eye movement of a user of an e-reader with a camera of the e-reader;
providing a pre-defined visual enhancement indicator embedded within a portion of the story presented on the e-reader; and
responsive to the eye movement of the user being correlated with the pre-defined visual enhancement indicator, presenting a visual enhancement file associated with the portion of the story presented on the e-reader.
17 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as recited by claim 16 , further comprising:
providing a pre-defined new setting indicator embedded within a portion of a story presented on the e-reader; and
responsive to the eye movement of the user being correlated with the pre-defined new setting indicator, ceasing presentation of the visual enhancement file.
18 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as recited by claim 16 , further comprising:
providing a pre-defined fade out indicator embedded within a portion of a story presented on the e-reader; and
responsive to the eye movement of the user being correlated with the pre-defined fade out indicator, fading out the presentation of the visual enhancement file.
19 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as recited by claim 16 , further comprising:
tracking the eye movement of the user at a line-by-line granularity.
20 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as recited by claim 16 , further comprising:
tracking the eye movement of the user at a word-by-word granularity.