System and method for selecting electronic documents from a physical document and for displaying said electronic documents over said physical document
First Claim
1. A method of selecting electronic information from a physical document, and for displaying said selected electronic information over this physical document, said method comprising:
- identifying a physical document;
identifying a page of said physical document;
identifying and locating an electronic document associated with the identified page by referring to a document hyperlink table;
said document hyperlink table comprising for each page of the physical document the identification and location of an electronic document;
accessing and retrieving the electronic document associated with the identified page; and
displaying the retrieved electronic document by means of an opto-touch foil placed over the identified page.
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Abstract
The present invention discloses a system and a method for selecting, accessing and retrieving directly from a physical (i.e., hard-copy) document, hypertext documents located on a user workstation or on one or a plurality of servers connected to a communication network, and for displaying the retrieved hypertext documents over said physical document. The information is accessed by the user simply by touching with a finger items (i.e., words, letters, symbols, pictures, icons, . . . ) that are highlighted on an electronic hypertext document displayed over the physical document. The method, for use in a user system comprises the steps of:—identifying a physical document, this physical document comprising one or a plurality of pages;—identifying a page of said physical document;—identifying and locating an electronic document associated with the identified page referring to a document hyperlink table; said document hyperlink table comprising for each page of the physical document the identification and location of an electronic document;—accessing and retrieving the electronic document associated with the identified page;—displaying the retrieved electronic document by means of an opto-touch foil placed over the identified page.
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19 Claims
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1. A method of selecting electronic information from a physical document, and for displaying said selected electronic information over this physical document, said method comprising:
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identifying a physical document;
identifying a page of said physical document;
identifying and locating an electronic document associated with the identified page by referring to a document hyperlink table;
said document hyperlink table comprising for each page of the physical document the identification and location of an electronic document;
accessing and retrieving the electronic document associated with the identified page; and
displaying the retrieved electronic document by means of an opto-touch foil placed over the identified page. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9)
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2. The method according to claim 2, wherein the electronic document associated with the identified page comprises one or more hyperlinked items, said method further comprising:
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creating a page hyperlink table for the identified page;
identifying the one or more hyperlinked items in the electronic document associated with the identified page; and
for each identified hyperlinked item;
identifying and locating information associated with said identified hyperlinked item;
determining the position on the opto-touch foil of said identified hyperlinked item; and
storing the identification and location of the information associated with said identified hyperlinked item and the position of said identified hyperliniked item on the opto-touch foil in the page hyperlink table. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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11. (Cancelled)
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12. A system comprising:
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an opto-touch foil;
a user system comprising;
means for selecting a page of the physical document;
means for retrieving an electronic document associated with the selected page; and
means for displaying the retrieved electronic document using the opto-touch foil placed over or under the selected page; and
a connection between said opto-touch foil and said user system. - View Dependent Claims (13)
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14. A computer program product comprising computer readable instructions, the computer program product comprising:
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computer readable instructions configured to select a page of a physical document;
computer readable instructions configured to retrieve an electronic document associated with the selected page; and
computer readable instructions configured to display the retrieved electronic document using an opto-touch foil placed over or under the selected page.
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15. A method for displaying selected electronic information on a physical document, the method comprising:
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identifying a physical document;
selecting a page of the physical document;
retrieving an electronic document associated with the selected page; and
displaying the retrieved electronic document using an opto-touch foil placed over or under the selected page. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19)
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