HANDHELD DEVICE FOR CAPTURING TEXT FROM BOTH A DOCUMENT PRINTED ON PAPER AND A DOCUMENT DISPLAYED ON A DYNAMIC DISPLAY DEVICE
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Abstract
A device for capturing rendered text is described. The device incorporates one or more visual sensors that receive visual information as a part of capturing rendered text. The visual sensors are collectively capable of capturing both text that is permanently printed on a page, and text that is displayed transitorily on a dynamic device. The device further incorporates a visual information disposition subsystem for disposing of visual information received by the visual sensors. The device further incorporates a package that bears the visual sensors and the visual information disposition subsystem, and is suitable to be held in a human hand.
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36 Claims
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21. A method in a computing system for capturing rendered text, comprising:
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using one or more visual sensors to receive visual information as part of capturing rendered text, visual sensors collectively being capable of capturing both text properly printed on a page and text display transitorily on a dynamic display device, the visual sensors being borne by a package suitable to be held in a human hand; and transmitting to a computer system data representing a position on a dynamic display device from which one of the visual sensors is receiving visual information. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24)
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25. A computer-readable medium having contents are capable of causing a computing system to perform a method for capturing rendered text, the method comprising:
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using one or more visual sensors to receive visual information as part of capturing rendered text, visual sensors collectively being capable of capturing both text properly printed on a page and text display transitorily on a dynamic display device, the visual sensors being borne by a package suitable to be held in a human hand; determining the position on the dynamic display device from which one of the visual senses is receiving visual information based upon visual information received by at least one of the visual sensors; and disposing of visual information received by the visual sensors.
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26. A method in a computing system for capturing rendered text, comprising:
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using one or more visual sensors to receive visual information as part of capturing rendered text, visual sensors collectively being capable of capturing both text properly printed on a page and text display transitorily on a dynamic display device, the visual sensors being borne by a package suitable to be held in a human hand; automatically determining when the visual sensors are receiving visual information as part of capturing text displayed transitorily on a dynamic display device by one of optically sensing a backlighting generated by the dynamic display device, optically sensing a cathode ray tube raster scan generated by the dynamic display device, and sensing a texture of a surface of the dynamic display device; and transmitting to a computer system data relating to the capture.
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27. A computer-readable medium having contents capable of causing a computing system to capture rendered text, the method comprising:
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using one or more visual sensors to receive visual information as part of capturing rendered text, visual sensors collectively being capable of capturing both text properly printed on a page and text display transitorily on a dynamic display device, the visual sensors being borne by a package suitable to be held in a human hand; automatically determining when the visual sensors are receiving visual information as part of capturing text displayed transitorily on a dynamic display device by one of optically sensing a backlighting generated by the dynamic display device, optically sensing a cathode ray tube raster scan generated by the dynamic display device, and sensing a texture of a surface of the dynamic display device; and transmitting to a computer system data relating to the capture.
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28. A method in a computing system for capturing rendered text, comprising:
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using one or more visual sensors to receive visual information as part of capturing rendered text, visual sensors collectively being capable of capturing both text properly printed on a page and text display transitorily on a dynamic display device, the visual sensors being borne by a package suitable to be held in a human hand; automatically determining when the visual sensors are receiving visual information as part of capturing text displayed transitorily on a dynamic display device; and determining a sensing frequency for the visual sensors based upon the determination of when the visual sensors are receiving visual information as part of capturing text displayed transitorily on a dynamic display device.
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29. A computer-readable medium having contents are capable of causing a computing system to perform a method for capturing rendered text, the method comprising:
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using one or more visual sensors to receive visual information as part of capturing rendered text, visual sensors collectively being capable of capturing both text properly printed on a page and text display transitorily on a dynamic display device, the visual sensors being borne by a package suitable to be held in a human hand; automatically determining when the visual sensors are receiving visual information as part of capturing text displayed transitorily on a dynamic display device; and activating an illumination device to illuminate captured text only at times when it is determined that the visual sensors are not receiving visual information as part of capturing text displayed transitorily on a dynamic display device.
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30. A computer-readable medium having contents are capable of causing a computing system to perform a method for determining the location of a text scanning optical sensor on a dynamic display, the method comprising:
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presenting at one or more selected locations on a display an optical signal not detectable by a human user; detecting in the optical sensor a presented optical signal; and determining the location on the display at which the detected optical signal was presented. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32)
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33. A method in a computing system for capturing rendered text, comprising:
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using a visual sensor to capture text of a document displayed transitorily on a dynamic display; using the textual content of the captured text to identify the document and the position in the document at which the capture is performed; determining a set of actions appropriate in connection with a capture from the identified document at the identified position; and presenting at least a portion of the determined set of actions to a user. - View Dependent Claims (34)
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35. A computer-readable medium having contents capable of causing a computing system to perform a method for capturing rendered text, the method comprising:
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using a visual sensor to capture text of a document displayed transitorily on a dynamic display; using the textual content of the captured text to identify the document and the position in the document at which the capture is performed; determining a set of actions appropriate in connection with a capture from the identified document at the identified position; and presenting at least a portion of the determined set of actions to a user. - View Dependent Claims (36)
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