Patent ID: 8952989
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. A viewer unit, comprising: a data acquisition device configured to acquire a page image of each page of a comic and a piece of digital comic data which includes a piece of first region information representing a character region in which a character who appears in the comic is drawn within the page image, a piece of second region information representing a speech region in which a speech made by the character is written, and a piece of association information which associates the first region information with the second region information; a display device having a predetermined screen size; a determination device configured to determines a positional line of a display range which corresponds to the screen size of the display device and is shifted sequentially within the page image, the determination device configured to determine to include a position of the display range in the positional line in order to display the character and the speech made by the character at once on the display device based on the first region information and the second region information which are associated with each other by the association information; and a display control device configured to control to shift the position of the display range sequentially within the page image in accordance with the positional line determined by the determination device in order to display the images of each display range sequentially on the display device.