Handwriting Regions Keyed to a Data Receptor

• US 20110109595A1
• Filed: 07/20/2010
• Published: 05/12/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Cohen, Alexander J., Rinaldo, John D. JR., Lord, Robert W., Jung, Edward K.Y., Levien, Royce A., Malamud, Mark A.
• Granted Patent: US 8,928,632 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/179
• 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 one region that is configured to accept information,

the at least one region being further configured to receive a machine-distinguishable identifier keyed to a data receptor, the machine-distinguishable identifier being configured to be electronically distinguished by a processing device such that an input to the at least one region associated with the machine-distinguishable identifier is electronically transmitted to the data receptor.

2. The article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein the writing surface having at least one region that is configured to accept handwriting is further configured to receive a user-understandable identifier that is associated with the machine-distinguishable identifier.

3. The article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein the machine-distinguishable identifier is configured to be distinguishable by a pattern recognition process.

4. The article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein the writing surface having at least one region that is configured to accept handwriting includes a writing surface having at least one of a delineated region, a visually defined region, or a coordinately defined region that accept handwriting.

5. The article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein the writing surface having at least one region that is configured to accept handwriting includes a paper writing surface having at least one region that is configured to accept handwriting.

6. The article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein the writing surface having at least one region that is configured to accept handwriting includes an electronic display writing surface having at least one region that is configured to accept handwriting.

7. The article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein the writing surface having at least one region that is configured to accept handwriting includes a writing surface having at least one region that is configured to 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 machine-distinguishable identifier includes a user-formed identifier.

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

10. The article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein the machine-distinguishable identifier keyed to a data receptor includes a 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 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.

19. The article of manufacture of claim 1, further comprising:

a processing device configured to distinguish the machine-distinguishable identifier located within the at least one region and to provide a signal to the data receptor keyed to the machine-distinguishable identifier, the signal corresponding to an information received by the at least one region associated with the machine-distinguishable identifier.

12. A system comprising:

a writing surface having at least one region that is configured to accept handwriting,

the at least one region being further configured to receive a machine-distinguishable identifier keyed to a data receptor, the unique machine-distinguishable identifier being configured to be distinguishable by a processing device;

a memory that includes one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processing devices, perform a process comprising;

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

receiving a label signal indicative of the machine-distinguishable identifier of the at least one region; and

in response to the signal indicative of the machine-distinguishable identifier of the at least one region, distributing a representation of the handwriting accepted by the at least one region to a data receptor.

13. A method, comprising:

receiving a content signal indicative of information input to a region configured to receive the information;

receiving a label signal indicative of a machine-distinguishable identifier keyed to a data recipient, the machine-distinguishable identifier being configured to be electronically distinguished by a processing device; and

in response to the label signal, distributing to the data recipient a representation of the information received by the region.

14. An article of manufacture comprising:

a writing surface having at least one region configured to accept an information, the region including a machine-distinguishable identifier keyed to a data receptor; and

a detector operable to electronically distinguish the machine-distinguishable identifier and to distribute a representation of the information accepted by the at least one region to the data receptor that is keyed to the machine-distinguishable identifier.

15. A method comprising:

delineating at least one information acceptance region of a surface;

accepting a machine-distinguishable identifier keyed to a data recipient via the information acceptance region; and

accepting information via the information acceptance region, the information being associated with the machine-distinguishable identifier; and

providing at least one of the information or a representation of the information to the data recipient keyed to the machine-distinguishable identifier.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

generating a content signal indicative of the information accepted by the information acceptance region;

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

distributing a representation of the information accepted by the information acceptance region to the data recipient keyed to the machine-distinguishable identifier.

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

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