Method of printing a second document via a first document

• US 7,751,090 B2
• Filed: 05/24/2007
• Issued: 07/06/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Original Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Inventors: Silverbrook, Kia, Lapstun, Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran; Douglas Q
• Application Number:
  US11/753,570
• Publication Number:
  US 20070229859A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,139 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.1, 358/1.8, 358/3.27, 358/3.28, 358/1.15, 358/1.13, 358/1.14, 358/1.18
• US Class Current: 358/3.28
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 13/103 for the sheet feeding section
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 13/106 for the sheet output section
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• CPC Class Codes: B42C 19/02 starting with single sheets
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• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03545 : Pens or stylus
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• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0386 : for light pen
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• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00127 : Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture signals or of information associated with a still picture
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• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00358 : Type of the scanned marks
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• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32101 : Display, printing, storage or transmission of additional information, e.g. ID code, date and time or title
• 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 1/32128 : attached to the image data, e.g. file header, transmitted message header, information on the same page or in the same computer file as the image for information embedded in the image H04N1/32144
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32771 : in response to a request, e.g. for a particular document
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Abstract

A method of printing a second document from a computer system is provided. The method makes use of a first document and a handheld optically imaging sensor. The first document includes an interface, the interface including visible textual information and substantially invisible first coded data in the form of one or more tags, each tag defining unique coded data identifying the first document and a position of that tag on the first document. The sensor generates indicating data indicative of the position of the sensor relative to the first document using sensed coded data. The method includes the steps of, in the computer system: (a) receiving the indicating data from the sensor; (b) determining the second document with which the indicating data is associated; and (c) causing the second document to be printed by a printer. The second printed document includes visible textual information and substantially invisible second coded data in the form of one or more tags, each tag defining unique coded data identifying the second document and a position of that tag on the second document.

Claims

1. A method of printing a second document from a computer system via:

a first document including an interface, the interface including visible textual information and substantially invisible first coded data in the form of one or more tags, each tag defining unique coded data identifying the first document and a position of that tag on the first document; and

a handheld optically imaging sensor, which, when the sensor is placed by the user into an operative position relative to the interface to designate at least some of the textual information, generates indicating data indicative of the position of the sensor relative to the first document using at least some of the sensed coded data;

the method including the steps of, in the computer system;

receiving the indicating data from the sensor;

determining the second document with which the indicating data is associated; and

causing the second document to be printed by a printer, the second printed document including visible textual information and substantially invisible second coded data in the form of one or more tags, each tag defining unique coded data identifying the second document and a position of that tag on the second document.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the textual information of the first document designated by the user is at least partially indicative, to the user, that designating that textual information will cause the printing to occur.

3. A method according to claim 2, wherein the textual information of the first document designated by the user is adjacent, or substantially coincident with, the coded data upon which the indicating data is based.

4. A method according to claim 3, wherein the textual information takes the form of any combination of:

text, including graphics-based text;

icons; and

hypertext links.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein each of the tags includes one or more orientation features for enabling a rotational orientation of the tag being read to be ascertained.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein the coded data comprises a plurality of undifferentiated marks.

7. A method according to claim 1, including the step of printing the second document by means of the printer.

8. A method according to claim 7, wherein the second coded data is printed using ink that is absorbent or reflective in the ultraviolet spectrum or the infrared spectrum.

9. A method according to claim 7, wherein the textual information is printed using colored or monochrome inks.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the second coded data is generated by a coded data generator in the printer using second document identity data.

11. A system for printing a second document from a computer system via:

a first document including an interface, the interface including visible textual information and substantially invisible first coded data in the form of one or more tags, each tag defining unique coded data identifying the first document and a position of that tag on the first document; and

a handheld optically imaging sensor, which, when the sensor is placed by the user into an operative position relative to the interface to designate at least some of the textual information, generates indicating data indicative of the position of the sensor relative to the first document using at least some of the sensed coded data;

the computer system being configured to;

receive the indicating data from the sensor;

determine the second document with which the indicating data is associated; and

send the second document to a printer to be printed, the second printed document including visible textual information and substantially invisible second coded data in the form of one or more tags, each tag defining unique coded data identifying the second document and a position of that tag on the second document.

12. A system according to claim 11, wherein the textual information of the first document designated by the user is at least partially indicative, to the user, that designating that textual information will cause the printing to occur.

13. A system according to claim 12, wherein the textual information of the first document designated by the user is adjacent, or substantially coincident with, the coded data upon which the indicating data is based.

14. A system according to claim 13, wherein the textual information takes the form of any combination of:

text, including graphics-based text;

icons; and

hypertext links.

15. A system according to claim 11, wherein each of the tags includes one or more orientation features for enabling a rotational orientation of the tag being read to be ascertained.

16. A system according to claim 11, wherein the coded data comprises a plurality of undifferentiated marks.

17. A system according to claim 11, including the printer for printing the second document.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the printer comprises a coded data generator for generating the second coded data using second document identity data received from the computer system.

19. The system according to claim 11 comprising the sensor.

20. The system according to claim 11 comprising the first document.