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Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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Post by bogwog »

cushychicken wrote: post #97
red0point wrote: post #39

The rules implemented are very simple (taken from the patent application [1], the exact numbers are configurable). If there are 4 letters, 40% of all letters are bold. There is this claim as the first text on the website: We are happy if as many people as possible can use the advantage of Bionic Reading. For this reason, Bionic Reading should be able to be integrated into existing apps and services. The benefit for t…

Because these folks deserve to eat and pay rent for a few years upon discovering something so useful.

It’s disingenuous to say they want as many people as possible to use it while at the same time filing a patent application.

That’s like Microsoft saying they want as many people as possible to use Azure: no shit

Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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Post by 7steps2much »

kizer wrote: post #186
karatinversion wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The opposite is true, in fact - a patent is a monopoly on the patented technology, no matter where alternative implementations come from. You might be thinking of “clean room” techniques which protect against claims of copyright infringement.

What's the thing where you have to license your patent? Like when it's used in a standard or something?

You might be talking about "Essentially Patents"?

> Standards organizations, therefore, often require members disclose and grant licenses to their patents and pending patent applications that cover a standard that the organization is developing. > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_patent

Please not that this is less of a "You have to offer licenses or else" and more of a "Hey please do that."

Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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Post by bogwog »

renato_casutt wrote: post #90
osullip wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disagree 100%. This is amazingly innovative. We have seen letter switching examples and how the brain will try to fill in the gaps. This is superbly unique and justifiably a patent and trademark. The demo works. The rules may be simple. But as the old boat repairman story says, sometimes you need to know where to hit the hammer. Please, please don't use this for evil.

Thank you very much for your answer. No, I will definitely use it for good. For sure. Best regards from the Alps Renato

The only way to use a patent “for good” is to prevent someone else from patenting it and exploiting it.

If you’re serious, then release a copy-left license for the patent (but not necessarily your implementation/product/sdk)

Otherwise, just add your commercial licensing terms to your website already so people aren’t misled into thinking they’ll be able to do anything with this idea unless they pay you.

Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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red0point wrote: post #39

The rules implemented are very simple (taken from the patent application [1], the exact numbers are configurable). If there are 4 letters, 40% of all letters are bold. There is this claim as the first text on the website: We are happy if as many people as possible can use the advantage of Bionic Reading. For this reason, Bionic Reading should be able to be integrated into existing apps and services. The benefit for t…

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Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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Post by dymk »

kranner wrote: post #150

I have some feedback regarding the testimonial from “Sangeeth”, whose Memoji shows a Sikh person. Did the user choose their Memoji? The two don’t go together well for reasons of odd cultural differences in the Roman/Latin transliteration of sounds in the south and the north of India. The -th- cluster represents the dental t, IPA /t/, but only in South India. In the North the same sound is represented by -t-. Therefor…

It’s just an emoji, not a Memoji (https://emojipedia.org/man-wearing-turban-medium-dark-skin-t...)

It’s probably a review written by somebody with a brown skin tone. Page authors don’t know the social intricacies of what constitutes Sikhs and chose this one as “close enough”.

Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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Post by camel_Snake »

pxeger1 wrote: post #22

This does indeed seem to work for me, but the repeated emphasis on the patents and trademarks makes me suspicious. It looks like a company who cares much more about patent royalties than about their invention - whom I would never be willing to give my money to. Having seen the principle, I could write a browser extension in an hour. I suppose I'll have to wait 25 years (or whatever the French patent expiry length is)…

There's an English language family member of this granted patent that was filed in the UK. English specification starts around page 30: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/96/4d/2b/749f7a4...

Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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Post by selfportrait »

renato_casutt wrote: post #95

I am very glad that Bionic Reading is being discussed in HN. I am aware that it cannot help everyone. But I also get a lot of feedback from people who are helped a lot by this reading mode. Imagine you have problems with reading. You don't realize what a huge hurdle that is until you talk to people who are affected. Being ashamed in front of society. The problem of learning new things. Being called stupid. And these…

I saw the opacity features but I was curious to see if with that feature, the bold text could stay as-is, and the regular text could take on lower opacity so that the full word is still there but only the bold parts are in full color. The opacity demo showed the whole paragraph as taking on an opacity reduction. I’m wondering if making the regular letters less opaque would disrupt the flow or further help focus on the important bits in bold?

Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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Post by renato_casutt »

kranner wrote: post #150

I have some feedback regarding the testimonial from “Sangeeth”, whose Memoji shows a Sikh person. Did the user choose their Memoji? The two don’t go together well for reasons of odd cultural differences in the Roman/Latin transliteration of sounds in the south and the north of India. The -th- cluster represents the dental t, IPA /t/, but only in South India. In the North the same sound is represented by -t-. Therefor…

Hi kranner I didn't mean to offend you. Or misrepresent the culture with a memoji. Sorry. If you feel it's out of order, then I can change it too. But what is more crucial for me is what Sangeeth said. And that is more important to me. By the way, all testimonials are real. 100%
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