ENTRIES TO AN ELECTRONIC CALENDAR
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1. A method of managing an electronic calendar, comprising:
- capturing a digital image associated with a calendar event;
using a processor to analyze the digital image to determine if the digital image contains text information and if so to extract the text information appearing in the digital image;
the processor further determining whether at least a part of the text information matches a date; and
when text information is extracted and at least part of the extracted text information matches a date in the electronic calendar, the processor inserting the extracted text information to at least one field of the electronic calendar associated with the date.
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Abstract
An example method of entering calendar events into an electronic calendar involves capturing a digital image of a document that contains a written calendar event; analyzing the digital image of the document containing the written calendar event to extract text information appearing on the digital image of the document; matching the extracted text information in the digital image of the written calendar event document to a date in the electronic calendar; and populating the extracted text information to at least one field of the electronic calendar associated with the date.
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23 Claims
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1. A method of managing an electronic calendar, comprising:
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capturing a digital image associated with a calendar event; using a processor to analyze the digital image to determine if the digital image contains text information and if so to extract the text information appearing in the digital image; the processor further determining whether at least a part of the text information matches a date; and when text information is extracted and at least part of the extracted text information matches a date in the electronic calendar, the processor inserting the extracted text information to at least one field of the electronic calendar associated with the date. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A device, comprising:
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a storage device; a digital camera configured to capture a digital image and store the captured digital image to the storage device; and a programmed processor having access to the storage device and configured to; analyze the digital image to determine if the digital image contains text information and if so to extract the text information appearing in the digital image; determine whether at least a part of the text information matches a date; when text information is extracted and at least part of the extracted text information matches a date in an electronic calendar, insert the extracted text information to at least one field of the electronic calendar associated with the date. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A device, comprising:
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a storage device; a digital camera configured to capture a digital image and store the captured digital image to the storage device; and a programmed processor configured to; analyze a digital image of a document that includes a written calendar event to extract text information appearing in the digital image; determine whether or not the document comprises a written calendar; match the extracted text information in the digital image to a date in the electronic calendar, where if the document does not comprise a written calendar the matching comprises finding text that identifies the calendar date, and where the at least one field of the electronic calendar is populated with at least a portion of the extracted text, and where if the document does comprise a written calendar the matching comprises associating a written calendar entry associated with a date of the written calendar with a field associated with a matching date in the electronic calendar; and insert the extracted text information to at least one field of the electronic calendar associated with the date. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23)
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