METHOD OF ASSOCIATING MULTIMEDIA OBJECT WITH SUBSTRATE

• US 20090104937A1
• Filed: 12/22/2008
• Published: 04/23/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Original Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Inventors: Silverbrook, Kia, Lapstun, Paul, King, Tobin Allen
• Application Number:
  US12/341,883
• Publication Number:
  US 20090104937A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/556.100
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Abstract

A method of associating a multimedia object with a substrate using a handheld viewer device. The substrate contains printed information and coded data identifying a region identity and a plurality of positions on the substrate. The substrate has a corresponding page description retrievable via the region identity. The method comprises the steps of: (a) displaying display information corresponding to part of the substrate; (b) identifying a multimedia object for association with a zone of the substrate; and (c) interacting with the display information to indicate association of the multimedia object with the zone. Subsequent interactions with the zone of the substrate using the device causes retrieval of the multimedia object from the updated page description.

Claims

1. A method of associating a multimedia object with a substrate using a handheld viewer device, said substrate containing printed information and coded data identifying a region identity and a plurality of positions on the substrate, said substrate having a corresponding page description retrievable via said region identity, said method comprising the steps of:

displaying, on a display screen of said device, display information corresponding to at least part of the substrate;

identifying a multimedia object for association with a zone of said substrate; and

interacting with said display information to indicate association of said multimedia object with said zone, thereby causing the page description to be updated in accordance with the indicated association,

wherein subsequent interaction with said zone of said substrate using said device causes retrieval of the multimedia object from said updated page description.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said viewer device is a mobile phone.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said viewer device comprises an optical sensor for reading said coded data.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein said subsequent interaction comprises the steps of:

reading at least some of the coded data within said zone using said optical sensor;

generating interaction data using the read coded data, said interaction data identifying the region identity and a position of the device relative to the substrate;

retrieving, using the interaction data, the multimedia object associated with said zone; and

providing, to a user, multimedia based on the retrieved multimedia object.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said multimedia object comprises image data.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said viewer device comprises an input device for capturing said multimedia object.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein said input device comprises a camera for capturing a photo.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said displaying comprises the substeps of:

positioning said device over at least part of the substrate;

reading at least some of the coded data using an optical sensor;

generating interaction data using the read coded data, said interaction data identifying the region identity and a position of the device relative to the substrate;

retrieving, using the interaction data, display data corresponding to the part of the substrate overlain by the device; and

displaying, on said display screen, the display information based on said display data.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

printing an icon onto said substrate, said icon representing the associated multimedia object.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein said viewer device comprises a printer for printing said icon.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein said retrieval of said display data comprises the substeps of:

communicating said region identity to a server via a wireless network;

receiving the page description corresponding to said region identity; and

identifying said display data using the position of the device and the page description.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein said retrieval of said display data comprises the substeps of:

communicating the interaction data to a server via a wireless network; and

receiving said display data based on said interaction data.

13. The method of claim 11 or 12, wherein the wireless network is a mobile telephone network.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein said display information is retrieved from a memory in said device, said memory storing the page description corresponding to the substrate.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein said display screen is a touch-sensitive screen and said interacting with said display information is via said touch-sensitive screen.

16. The method of claim 15, comprising the step of:

interacting with said touch-sensitive screen using a stylus associated with said device.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein said multimedia object is displayed on said display screen as an icon.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein said icon is displayed at a location of said display information to indicate association of said multimedia object with said zone of said substrate.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein a plurality of multimedia objects are stored in a memory of said device.