Patent Document ID: 8855413
Application ID: 13107084

Base Claim:
1. A method for preserving an original appearance of stylized information and breaking the stylized information at an element boundary, the method comprising: acquiring an image including stylized information, wherein the stylized information includes a plurality of elements, and the plurality of elements includes one or more words that are arranged in an arced line; distinguishing each of the elements of stylized information in the image from one another; identifying at least one element boundary for each of the elements of stylized information, wherein an element boundary indicates a division between successive elements of the stylized information; displaying a representation of each of the elements of stylized information in the image on a display by placing the elements of stylized information, one element after another element, by breaking the stylized information at an element boundary; and rotating a first word in the arced line relative to a second word in the arced line to display the first word and the second word in one or more non-arced lines, wherein: the displayed elements comprise bordering elements, the bordering elements are elements sharing a boundary, and the displaying comprises smoothing representations of boundaries between bordering elements.

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Claim 10:
10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the displaying includes adjusting an aspect of a background of each of the elements of stylized information on the first line relative to an aspect of a background of at least one other of the elements of stylized information on the first line.