Viewer with code sensor

• US 6,788,293 B1
• Filed: 11/25/2000
• Issued: 09/07/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Original Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Inventors: Silverbrook, Kia, Lapstun, Paul, Lapstun, Jacqueline Anne
• Primary Examiner(s): Shalwala, Bipin
• Assistant Examiner(s): LEWIS, DAVID LEE
• Application Number:
  US09/722,175
• Time in Patent Office: 1,382 Days
• Field of Search: 345/173, 345/156, 345/169, 345/121, 235/472.01, 235/454, 235/468, 235/462.42, 235/462.27, 235/46.45, 382/115, 382/313, 347/19, 704/3
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/445 Printers integrated in other types of apparatus, e.g. printers integrated in cameras
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1656 Details related to functional adaptations of the enclosure, e.g. to provide protection against EMI, shock, water, or to host detachable peripherals like a mouse or removable expansions units like PCMCIA cards, or to provide access to internal components for maintenance or to removable storage supports like CDs or DVDs, or to mechanically mount accessories mounting of accessories to a computer display G06F1/1607; display hoods G06F1/1603; cooling arrangements for portable computers G06F1/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1684 Constructional details or arrangements related to integrated I/O peripherals not covered by groups G06F1/1635 - G06F1/1675
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1688 the I/O peripheral being integrated loudspeakers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0384 Wireless input, i.e. hardware and software details of wireless interface arrangements for pointing devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0321 by optically sensing the absolute position with respect to a regularly patterned surface forming a passive digitiser, e.g. pen optically detecting position indicative tags printed on a paper sheet constructional details of pen-shaped pointing devices G06F3/03545, G06F3/03542, G06F3/037
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03545 Pens or stylus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/16 Sound input; Sound output speech processing G10L
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27475 using interactive graphical means or pictorial representations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2755 by optical scanning
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72409 by interfacing with external accessories hands-free H04M1/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 : including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42 : Systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers specially adapted for wireless communication networks H04W4/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0015 : First party call control architectures
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00204 : with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 : with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00307 : with a mobile telephone apparatus constructional features of portable telephone sets H04M1/0202; mobile radio systems H04W84/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00326 : with a data reading, recognizing or recording apparatus, e.g. with a bar-code apparatus arrangements for the associated working of recording or reproducing apparatus with related apparatus G11B31/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00392 : Other manual input means, e.g. digitisers or writing tablets
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00968 : by scanning marks on a sheet mark-sheet input means H04N1/00355; sensing record carriers G06K7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32122 : in a separate device, e.g. in a memory or on a display separate from image data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32133 : on the same paper sheet, e.g. a facsimile page header
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32778 : using a mark-sheet or machine-readable code request
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/60 : using transform coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/61 : in combination with predictive coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 : embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/422 : Input-only peripherals , i.e. input devices connected to specially adapted client devices, e.g. global positioning system [GPS] input devices also receiving signals from specially adapted client devices H04N21/4104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42203 : sound input device, e.g. microphone
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 : Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 : Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0082 : Image hardcopy reproducer H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3226 : of identification information or the like, e.g. ID code, index, title, part of an image, reduced-size image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3247 : Data linking a set of images to one another, e.g. sequence, burst or continuous capture mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3264 : of sound signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3269 : of machine readable codes or marks, e.g. bar codes or glyphs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3274 : Storage or retrieval of prestored additional information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/445 : for displaying additional information H04N5/50 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 : Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 : Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/783 : Adaptations for reproducing at a rate different from the recording rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/907 : using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories H04N5/91 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 : by receiver means only
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 : Database or file accessing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/187 : Continuous sectional layer

Abstract

A viewer (100) is provided which senses machine-readable coded data (202), decodes the coded data (202), transmits the decoded data to a computer system, and receives in response from the computer system display data for display on a screen (102) and/or for playback via a speaker (106).

Claims

1. A method for displaying on a screen of a viewer enhanced representations of segments of a printed substrate, wherein the viewer includes an optical sensor and wherein the printed substrate includes both coded data invisible to the human eye and data that is visible to the human eye, the method comprising the steps of:

placing the viewer over a first segment of the printed substrate;

sensing with the optical sensor first invisible coded data that is printed on the first segment of the printed substrate, wherein the first invisible coded data indicates both its own position on the printed substrate and an identity of the printed substrate;

generating from the first invisible coded data a first visible image on the screen of the viewer, wherein the first visible image corresponds to the visible data printed on the first segment of the printed substrate that is beneath the viewer;

moving the viewer over a second segment of the printed substrate;

sensing with the optical sensor second invisible coded data that is printed on the second segment of the printed substrate, wherein the second invisible coded data indicates both its own position on the printed substrate and an identity of the printed substrate; and

generating from the second invisible coded data a second visible image on the screen of the viewer, wherein the second visible image corresponds to the visible data printed on the second segment of the printed substrate that is beneath the viewer.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of generating from the first invisible coded data a first visible image on the screen of the viewer further comprises the step of receiving from a remote computer system additional information concerning the first visible image.

3. The method claim 1, wherein the printed substrate is a netpage.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the viewer contacts the netpage and, when the viewer first comes into contact with the netpage, it downloads a corresponding page description from a relevant netpage page server.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the viewer functions as a personal digital assistant (PDA).

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the screen of the viewer is transparent when it is not in contact with the printed substrate, so that while the viewer is being placed over a substrate, but is not in contact with the substrate, the substrate is seen through the screen of the viewer.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first visible image includes information that is redacted on the first segment of the printed substrate that is beneath the viewer.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the information that is redacted on the first segment of the printed substrate is financial information.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the financial information that is redacted on the first segment of the printed substrate is credit card information.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the first visible image includes static elements which only appear through the viewer.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the static elements include controls for dynamic content.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the controls for dynamic content are selected from the group consisting of playback controls for videos or music, and elements associated with secure information.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the first visible image includes dynamic elements which only appear through the viewer.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the dynamic elements are video clips.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the static elements include view filters which restrict their appearance.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the dynamic elements include view filters which restrict their appearance.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein the screen of the viewer is touch sensitive.