Forms for completion with an electronic writing device

• US 7,672,512 B2
• Filed: 06/24/2005
• Issued: 03/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Searete LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Cohen, Alexander J., Lord, Robert W., Levien, Royce A., Jung, Edward K. Y., Malamud, Mark A., Rinaldo, John D. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chawan; Sheela C
• Application Number:
  US11/167,058
• Publication Number:
  US 20060209044A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,712 Days
• Field of Search: 382/187, 382313-314, 382/119, 382/182, 382/184, 382/188, 382/112, 382/100, 382/189, 347/111, 347/171, 347/177, 283/75, 283/77, 283/85, 345/173
• US Class Current: 382/187
• 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 3/03545 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 3/04883 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 30/10 Character recognition
• 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 30/1448 based on markings or identifiers characterising the document or the area
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/32 Digital ink

Abstract

Embodiments include an article of manufacture, apparatus, device, system, computer-program product, and method. In an embodiment, an article of manufacture includes a display surface that includes a machine-distinguishable form identifier keyed to an electronic version of the form and at least two fields. Each field of the at least two fields respectively includes a unique machine-distinguishable field identifier keyed to a field of the electronic version of a form, a content area that accepts a hand-formed entry, and a unique user-understandable field identifier.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

generating, via an article of manufacture comprising a human associatable device, a document signal indicative of a form having at least one field, each field of the form respectively having a unique machine-distinguishable identifier and a content area;

generating, via an article of manufacture comprising a human associatable device, an element signal indicative of the unique machine-distinguishable field identifier for a field of the at least one field; and

generating, via an article of manufacture comprising a human associatable device, a mark signal indicative of a hand-formed entry in the content area of the field of the at least one field.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating a document signal indicative of a form having at least one field includes generating in a handheld writing device a document signal indicative of a form having at least one field.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the generating an element signal indicative of the unique field identifier for a field of the at least one field includes generating in the handheld writing device an element signal indicative of the unique field identifier for a field of the at least one field.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the generating a mark signal indicative of a hand-formed entry in the content area of the field of the at least one field includes generating in the handheld writing device a mark signal indicative of a hand-formed entry in the content area of the field of the at least one field.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating in a human associatable device a document signal indicative of a form having at least one field includes generating in a human wearable device a document signal indicative of a form having at least one field.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the generating in a human associatable device a document signal indicative of a form having at least one field includes generating in a hand-held writing device a document signal indicative of a form having at least one field.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating a document signal indicative of a form having at least one field includes a generating a document signal indicative of a printed form having at least one field.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating a document signal indicative of a form having at least one field includes a generating a document signal indicative of an electronically displayed form having at least one field.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein generating an element signal indicative of the unique machine-distinguishable field identifier for a field of the at least one field includes generating in a human associatable device an element signal indicative of the unique machine-distinguishable field identifier for a field of the at least one field.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating an element signal indicative of the unique machine-distinguishable field identifier for a field of the at least one field includes generating an element signal indicative of a unique user-understandable field identifier for a field of the at least one field.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating an element signal indicative of the unique field identifier for a field of the at least one field includes generating an element signal indicative of the unique machine-distinguishable field identifier for a field of the at least one field.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

electronically associating the field of the at least one field and a representation of the hand-formed entry in the content area.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

electronically associating the field of the at least one field and a representation of the hand-formed entry in the content area in response to the element signal and the mark signal.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

saving the electronically associated field of the at least one field and representation of the hand-formed entry in the content area.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

saving the electronically associated field of the at least one field and representation of the hand-formed entry in the content area in an electronic version of the form.

16. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

saving the electronically associated field of the at least one field and a representation of the hand-formed entry in the content area in an electronic version of the form having an identifier associated with a user.