Manipulation of electronic media using off-line media
First Claim
1. A computer-based system for simulating a real tool in which a computer displays data based upon a selected portion of an image printed on an off-line medium, said system comprising:
- a probe device comprising at least a hand-held probe section, said probe device transmitting information of said selected portion to said computer;
a computer storage medium, said storage medium retaining multimedia data, said multimedia data representative of an output of a real tool examining a selected portion of an actual item corresponding to said selected portion of said image, andwherein said computer retrieves said multimedia data synchronized to a position of said selected portion and displays said multimedia data to simulate a real tool.
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Abstract
The system generally comprises a probe device, a computing device, an electronic media, a presentation device, and a suitable medium as a specimen. The probe is manipulated over the specimen and information from the probe is transmitted to the computing device. The computing device uses the probe information to identify the image and probe position on the specimen. Based upon the specimen and position of the probe on the specimen, electronic media is presented simulating an output of a real tool used to inspect an actual specimen. The hand manipulation of the probe coordinated with the display of the electronic media provides the visceral experience normally encountered by a user of the real tool. In one embodiment, the probe is a camera and the specimen an image identified by examination of an image feature database. In an alternative embodiment, the probe is a finger.
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31 Claims
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1. A computer-based system for simulating a real tool in which a computer displays data based upon a selected portion of an image printed on an off-line medium, said system comprising:
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a probe device comprising at least a hand-held probe section, said probe device transmitting information of said selected portion to said computer; a computer storage medium, said storage medium retaining multimedia data, said multimedia data representative of an output of a real tool examining a selected portion of an actual item corresponding to said selected portion of said image, and wherein said computer retrieves said multimedia data synchronized to a position of said selected portion and displays said multimedia data to simulate a real tool. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A computer-based systen in which electronic media to be presented by a computing device is synchronized to a selected region of off-line medium, said system comprising:
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a hand-held imager, said imager detecting a region of said off-line media and transmitting an electronic representation of said region to said computer; a presentation device, said presentation device presenting electronic media, synchronized to said region of off-line media. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A method of simulating a real tool in which a computer displays data based upon a selection of a location of an image printed on a off-line medium by a hand-held probe, said off-line medium including a plurality of icons printed thereon, each of said icons indicating a different real tool, said method comprising:
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receiving position information representative of a location of said image printed on said off-line medium said hand-held probe part is pointing to; determining data synchronized to said location; retrieving said data, said data representative of an output of a real tool examining a location of an actual item corresponding to said location of said image pointed to by said hand-held probe part, and displaying said data. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31)
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