Handwriting regions keyed to a data receptor

• US 20060209042A1
• Filed: 06/24/2005
• Published: 09/21/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Searete LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Cohen, Alexander J., Lord, Robert W., Jung, Edward K.Y., Levien, Royce A., Malamud, Mark A., Rinaldo, John D. Jr.
• Granted Patent: US 7,760,191 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/002 Specific input/output arrangements not covered by G06F3/01 - G06F3/16 other optical apparatus G02B27/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03545 Pens or stylus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0425 using a single imaging device like a video camera for tracking the absolute position of a single or a plurality of objects with respect to an imaged reference surface, e.g. video camera imaging a display or a projection screen, a table or a wall surface, on which a computer generated image is displayed or projected tracking a projected light spot to determine a position on a display surface G06F3/0386
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/12 Details of acquisition arrangements; Constructional details thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/1423 the instrument generating sequences of position coordinates corresponding to handwriting preprocessing or recognising digital ink G06V30/32
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/32 Digital ink
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability

Abstract

Embodiments include an article of manufacture, apparatus, device, system, computer-program product, and method. In an embodiment, an article of manufacture includes a writing surface having at least two regions that accept handwriting. Each region of the at least two regions that accept handwriting respectively includes a unique user-understandable identifier and a unique machine-distinguishable identifier keyed to a data receptor.

Claims

1. An article of manufacture comprising:

a writing surface having at least two regions that accept handwriting; and

each region of the at least two regions that accept handwriting respectively includes a unique user-understandable identifier and a unique machine-distinguishable identifier keyed to a data receptor.

2. The article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein the writing surface having at least two regions that accept handwriting includes a writing surface having at least two delineated regions that accept handwriting.

3. The article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein the writing surface having at least two regions that accept handwriting includes a writing surface having at least two visually defined regions that accept handwriting.

4. The article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein the writing surface having at least two regions that accept handwriting includes a writing surface having at least two coordinately defined handwriting region of an electronic display surface that accept handwriting.

5. The article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein the writing surface having at least two regions that accept handwriting includes a paper writing surface having at least two regions that accept handwriting.

6. The article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein the writing surface having at least two regions that accept handwriting includes an electronic display writing surface having at least two regions that accept handwriting.

7. The article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein the writing surface having at least two regions that accept handwriting includes a writing surface having at least two regions that accept at least one of a hand-formed color, pattern, shade, tone, letter, word, phrase, number, alphanumeric, character, icon, geometric shape, figure, graphic, glyph, repeated pattern, random pattern, image, region, and/or legend.

8. The article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein the unique machine-distinguishable identifier includes a unique identifier recognizable by a pattern recognition method.

9. The article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein the unique machine-distinguishable identifier keyed to a data recipient includes a unique machine-distinguishable identifier corresponding to a data recipient.

10. The article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein the unique machine-distinguishable identifier keyed to a data recipient includes a unique machine-distinguishable identifier keyed to at least one of a file, a record, a database, and/or a storage medium.

11. The article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein the unique machine-distinguishable identifier includes at least one of a machine-distinguishable color, a pattern, a shade, a tone, a letter, a word, a phrase, a number, an alphanumeric, a character, an icon, a tag, a geometric shape, a figure, a graphic, a glyph, a repeated pattern, a random pattern, an image, a region, and/or a legend.

12. A system comprising:

an article of manufacture comprising;

a writing surface having at least two regions that accept handwriting; and

each region of the at least two regions that accept handwriting respectively include a unique user-understandable identifier and a unique machine-distinguishable identifier keyed to a data receptor;

a computer program product including;

(a) program instructions operable to perform a process in a computer system, the process comprising;

receiving a content signal indicative of a handwriting accepted by a region of the at least two regions;

receiving a label signal indicative of the unique machine-distinguishable identifier of the region; and

in response to the signal indicative of the unique machine-distinguishable identifier of the preformed region, distributing a representation of the handwriting accepted by the preformed region to a data receptor; and

(b) a computer-readable signal-bearing medium bearing the program instructions.

13. A computer program product comprising:

(a) program instructions operable to perform a process in a computer system, the process comprising;

receiving a content signal indicative of information handwritten to a preformed region of a surface having at least two preformed regions;

receiving a label signal indicative of a unique machine-distinguishable identifier associated with the preformed region of a surface having at least two preformed regions; and

in response to the label signal, distributing to a data recipient a representation of the information handwritten to the preformed region; and

(b) a computer-readable signal-bearing medium bearing the program instructions.

14. An article of manufacture comprising:

a writing surface having at least one preformed region configured to accept a handwritten information, the preformed region including a unique user-understandable identifier and a unique machine-distinguishable identifier keyed to a data receptor.

15. A method comprising:

delineating at least one handwriting acceptance region of a surface;

displaying a unique user-recognizable identifier for each handwriting acceptance region; and

establishing a unique machine-distinguishable identifier keyed to a data recipient for each handwriting acceptance region.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

generating a content signal indicative of a handwriting accepted by a handwriting acceptance region;

generating a label signal indicative of the unique machine-distinguishable identifier of the handwriting acceptance region; and

distributing a representation of the handwriting accepted by the handwriting acceptance region to a data recipient in response to the unique machine-distinguishable identifier of the handwriting acceptance region.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the delineating at least one handwriting acceptance region of a surface includes delineating at least one handwriting acceptance region of a paper writing surface.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the delineating at least one handwriting acceptance region of a surface includes delineating at least one handwriting acceptance region of an electronic display writing surface.