Method and system for accessing interactive multimedia information or services by touching highlighted items on physical documents
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- selecting and accessing information or services by touching hyperlinked items on a physical document, said method for use in a user system includes the steps of;
identifying a physical document, said physical document comprising at least one page;
identifying a page of said physical document, said page comprising one or a plurality of predefined hyperlinked items;
identifying position of hyperlinked items comprised in said identified page referring to a hyperlink table associated with said identified document, said hyperlink table comprising for each page of the document, a list of hyperlink items, and for each hyperlink item, an indication of its position on said page; and
sending for visualization on an opto-touch foil, the position of said hyperlinked items, said opto-touch foil being connected to the user system.
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Abstract
Method and system for selecting and accessing multimedia information/services located on a user workstation or on a server by touching finger items that are electronically illuminated over the surface of a hard-copy document or any other physical surface. The system includes: an opto-touch foil, placed over (or under) a portion of the document, used to highlight hyperlinked items over the surface of the physical document and to read coordinates of these hyperlinked items; and a user workstation for accessing the information/service associated with the hyperlinked items. Hyperlinked items are illuminated by the luminous signal for identifying and selecting a hyperlinked items. When a user selects an item, the workstation receives a signal indicating the position of this selected item. The user workstation identifies, locates and accesses the information/service associated with the position of the selected item.
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30 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
selecting and accessing information or services by touching hyperlinked items on a physical document, said method for use in a user system includes the steps of;
identifying a physical document, said physical document comprising at least one page;
identifying a page of said physical document, said page comprising one or a plurality of predefined hyperlinked items;
identifying position of hyperlinked items comprised in said identified page referring to a hyperlink table associated with said identified document, said hyperlink table comprising for each page of the document, a list of hyperlink items, and for each hyperlink item, an indication of its position on said page; and
sending for visualization on an opto-touch foil, the position of said hyperlinked items, said opto-touch foil being connected to the user system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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16. A method comprising:
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creating hyperlinks, by touching hyperlinked items on a physical document, for use in a user system, including the steps of;
creating an hyperlink table for a physical document ;
said physical document comprising one or a plurality of pages;
receiving and storing in said hyperlink table an identification of the physical document; and
for each page of said physical document;
receiving and storing in said hyperlink table an identification of the page and an identification of hyperlinked items defined by the user on said page;
receiving and storing in said hyperlink table identification and location of information or service associated with each defined hyperlinked item;
determining the position of points pressed on a opto-touch foil ;
said opto-touch foil being placed and aligned over or under the page of the physical document;
said opto-touch foil being pressed at points corresponding to the position of said defined hyperlinked items; and
storing the position of the points pressed in the hyperlink table, said hyperlink table comprising for each hyperlinked item, an indication of its position on the page. - View Dependent Claims (21, 30)
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