A layout analysis method, an electronic device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are provided. The layout analysis method includes: obtaining coordinate information of a plurality of text lines in an image; creating a layout model of the image according to the coordinate information; analyzing a layout structure of the text lines based on the layout model; and determining an order of the text lines relative to each other based on the layout structure.

Provided is a method of generating a book database for reading evaluation of a user, a method of determining a type of a user utterance using a book database, and a method of generating a conversation sentence using a book database, the method of generating a book database for reading evaluation of a user including the steps of: dividing the entire text included in the received book data into units of sentences; assigning the sentences with sentence identifiers (IDs); assigning the words with word IDs; generating and storing a table in which the word ID and the sentence ID match with each other, the table referred to as a word-sentence matching table; and calculating a weight of each of the words using the number of the sentences including the word and storing the weights of the respective words.

A system includes a computing platform having processing hardware, and a systems memory storing a software code. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to receive content including an image having multiple image regions, determine boundaries of each of the image regions to identify multiple bounded image regions, identify, within each of the bounded image regions, one or more local features and one or more global features, and identify, within each of the hounded image regions, another one or more local features based on a comparison with corresponding local features identified in each of one or more other bounded image regions. The processing hardware is further configured to execute the software code to annotate each of the bounded image regions using its respective one or more local features, its other one or more local features, and its one or more global features, to provide annotated content.

Methods, systems, and media for enhancing one or more publications by receiving live video captured by a user, the live video comprising video of a publication, the publication comprising copyrighted content; identifying at least one first trigger in the live video, identifying one or more first three-dimensional, interactive media associated with the at least one first trigger and pertaining to the copyrighted content, and presenting to the user the first three-dimensional, interactive media; and identifying at least one second trigger in the first three-dimensional, interactive media, identifying one or more second three-dimensional, interactive media associated with the at least one second trigger and pertaining to the copyrighted content, and presenting to the user the second three-dimensional, interactive media to progressively deepen and enrich the engagement with the copyrighted content of the publication.

A layout analysis method, an electronic device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are provided. The layout analysis method includes: obtaining coordinate information of a plurality of text lines in an image; creating a layout model of the image according to the coordinate information; analyzing a layout structure of the text lines based on the layout model; and determining an order of the text lines relative to each other based on the layout structure.

An information processing apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller. The controller is configured to execute estimation processing for estimating content of a book. The controller is configured to transmit, to an external apparatus, a control signal in accordance with the content of the book using the communication interface.

Disclosed are a reading support apparatus which can detect a user input (touch and/or drag) conducted on a real book by using one camera, and a user input detection method using the same. The reading support apparatus sets a finger and/or nail on a target surface image captured through one camera to touch recognition reference, detects, as a user input, a user's touch or drag conducted on the surface of the real book by comparing the finger and/or nail included in the target surface image to the touch recognition reference, and provides an action corresponding to the user input.

Methods, systems, and media for enhancing one or more publications by receiving live video captured by a user, the live video comprising video of a publication, the publication comprising copyrighted content; identifying at least one first trigger in the live video, identifying one or more first three-dimensional, interactive media associated with the at least one first trigger and pertaining to the copyrighted content, and presenting to the user the first three-dimensional, interactive media; and identifying at least one second trigger in the first three-dimensional, interactive media, identifying one or more second three-dimensional, interactive media associated with the at least one second trigger and pertaining to the copyrighted content, and presenting to the user the second three-dimensional, interactive media to progressively deepen and enrich the engagement with the copyrighted content of the publication.

Disclosed are an apparatus and method for providing a digital twin bookshelf, which can generate a digital twin bookshelf including a virtual bookshelf and book objects by using book information and an image obtained by capturing a real bookshelf. The apparatus captures an image of a real bookshelf in which real books are arranged, detects book recognition information from the real bookshelf image, generates a digital twin bookshelf based on the real bookshelf image and the book information corresponding to the book recognition information, and outputs the generated digital twin bookshelf.

A graphic recognition-based interactive method and electronic device. The interactive method comprises: acquiring a first image to be analyzed (101); recognizing the first image to be analyzed to obtain a recognition result (102); playing a narration audio file associated with the recognition result (103); playing a question audio file associated with the interactive content of the first image to be analyzed based on the recognition result after the narration audio file is played (104); acquiring a second image to be analyzed (105); determining whether a feature graphic exists in the second image to be analyzed (106); if the feature graphic exists in the second image to be analyzed, determining whether the feature graphic overlaps with an interactive region, wherein the interactive region is an area corresponding to an answer to the question in the question audio file (108); playing a correct audio file if the feature graphic and the interactive region are overlapped (109); and playing a wrong audio file if the feature graphic and the interactive region are not overlapped (110). The said method provides increased interactivity.