Link object to sticker and location on surface

• US 20070085332A1
• Filed: 09/19/2005
• Published: 04/19/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Original Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Inventors: Silverbrook, Kia, Lapstun, Paul, Hollins, Michael, Walmsley, Simon
• Application Number:
  US11/228,505
• Publication Number:
  US 20070085332A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 283/61
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/41 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes

Abstract

A method of generating an association between an object, a location on a surface and a sticker on the surface, the sticker having disposed therein or thereon first coded data at least partially indicative of a sticker identity and at least one action, the surface having disposed therein or thereon second coded data indicative of a plurality of locations on the surface respectively, the method including, in a computer system: receiving indicating data from a sensing device, the indicating data being at least partially indicative of the at least one action and at least one position of the sensing device relative to the surface, the sensing device, when placed in an operative position relative to at least some of the sticker and at least some of the surface, being responsive to sense at least some of the first coded data and at least some of the second coded data and generate the indicating data using the sensed first coded data and sensed second coded data; identifying, using the indicating data, the sticker identity, the at least one action, the at least one position and the object; generating, using the at least one action, an association based at least partially on the sticker identity, the at least one position and the object.

Claims

1. A method of generating an association between an object, a location on a surface and a sticker on the surface, the sticker having disposed therein or thereon first coded data at least partially indicative of a sticker identity and at least one action, the surface having disposed therein or thereon second coded data indicative of a plurality of locations on the surface respectively, the method including, in a computer system:

receiving indicating data from a sensing device, the indicating data being at least partially indicative of the at least one action and at least one position of the sensing device relative to the surface, the sensing device, when placed in an operative position relative to at least some of the sticker and at least some of the surface, being responsive to sense at least some of the first coded data and at least some of the second coded data and generate the indicating data using the sensed first coded data and sensed second coded data;

identifying, using the indicating data, the sticker identity, the at least one action, the at least one position and the object;

generating, using the at least one action, an association based at least partially on the sticker identity, the at least one position and the object.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the object is stored in an object repository, the method including, in the computer system:

generating the association based at least partially on the object stored in the object repository.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the method includes, in the computer system:

receiving object data indicative of at least one received object; and

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storing, using the received object data, the at least one received object in the object repository.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method includes, in the computer system:

moving the sensing device from the sticker to the surface to sense at least some of the first coded data and at least some of the second coded data to generate the indicating data.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method includes, in the computer system:

recording the generated association in the computer system.

6. The method according to claim 2, wherein the method includes, in the computer system:

deleting, from the object repository, the object after generating the association.

7. The method according to claim 3, wherein objects in the object repository are ordered according to when a received object was stored in the object repository, the method including, in the computer system:

updating, using the received object data, the order of received objects in the object repository;

determining, using the order indicated by the object repository, the object which has been most recently stored in the object repository; and

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generating an association based at least partially on the most recently stored object.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the method includes, in the computer system:

deleting, from the object repository, the most recently stored object after generating the association.

9. The method according to claim 3, wherein object repository is located on a server, the method including, in a computer system:

storing, using the received object data, the received object in the object repository located on the server;

retrieving, using the object repository located on the server, the object; and

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recording, to the server, the generated association.

10. The method according to claim 3, wherein the method includes, in the computer system:

receiving the object data indicative of an object identity of the received object;

storing the object identity in the object repository; and

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generating an association based at least partially on the object identity.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the generated association is indicative of:

the sticker identity;

the location on the surface; and

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the object.

12. The method according to claim 3, wherein the association is generated according to a user identity, wherein the method includes, in the computer system:

storing, using the received object data, the received object associated with the user identity in the object repository.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the method includes, in the computer system:

determining, using the object repository and the user identity, the object to be associated with the sticker identity and the location on the surface.

14. The method according to claim 1, wherein if the object repository is empty, the method includes, in the computer system:

indicating an error when an association cannot be generated.

15. The method according to claim 1, wherein at least some of the first coded data is indicative of an object type, the method including:

receiving the indicating data indicative of the object type; and

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identifying, using the indicating data, the object type and the object of the object type.

16. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first coded data is at least partially indicative of at least one interactive element, the at least one interactive element is related to the least one action, the method including, in the computer system:

receiving, from the sensing device, indicating data at least partially indicative of the at least one action, the sensing device, when placed in an operative position relative to the at least one interactive element, being responsive to sense at least some of the first coded data and generate the indicating data using the sensed first coded data;

identifying, using the indicating data, the sticker identity and at least one action and the at least one location; and

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generating, using the at least one action, an association based at least partially on the sticker identity and the at least one location and an object.

17. The method according to claim 1, the first coded data being indicative of at least one location on the sticker, the method including, in the computer system:

receiving the indicating data further indicative of a second position of the sensing device relative to the sticker, the sensing device being responsive to sensing at least some of the first coded data to generate the indicating data indicative of the second position;

identifying, using the indicating data, the at least one second position; and

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generating an association based at least partially on the at least one second position.

18. The method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one of the first coded data and second coded data is substantially invisible to an unaided human.

19. The method according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the first coded data and the second coded data is printed on the surface using at least one of:

an invisible ink; and

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an infrared-absorptive ink.

20. A computer system configured to generate an association between an object, a location on a surface and a sticker on the surface, the sticker having disposed therein or thereon first coded data at least partially indicative of a sticker identity and at least one action, the surface having disposed therein or thereon second coded data indicative of a plurality of locations on the surface respectively, the computer system being configured to:

receive indicating data from a sensing device, the indicating data being at least partially indicative of the at least one action and at least one location on the surface, the sensing device, when placed in an operative position relative to the sticker and operatively moved from the sticker to the surface, being responsive to sense at least some of the first coded data and at least some of the second coded data and generate the indicating data using the sensed first coded data and sensed second coded data;

identify, using the indicating data, the sticker identity and the at least one action and the at least one location;

identify the object to be associated with the sticker identity and the at least one location; and

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generate, using the at least one action, an association based at least partially on the sticker identity and the at least one location and the object.