Printing content on a reverse side of a coded surface

• US 7,774,025 B2
• Filed: 09/19/2005
• Issued: 08/10/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Original Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Inventors: Silverbrook, Kia, Lapstun, Paul, Hollins, Michael J
• Primary Examiner(s): Appiah; Charles N
• Assistant Examiner(s): DOAN, KIET M
• Application Number:
  US11/228,535
• Publication Number:
  US 20070066357A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,786 Days
• Field of Search: 455/557, 455/456.1, 238/380, 238/462.45, 400/88, 705/64, 235/494, 235/472
• US Class Current: 455/557
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 11/009 Detecting type of paper, e.g. by automatic reading of a code that is printed on a paper package or on a paper roll or by sensing the grade of translucency of the paper
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/445 Printers integrated in other types of apparatus, e.g. printers integrated in cameras
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/382 insuring higher security of transaction

Abstract

A method of printing content using a print medium, comprising the steps of: determining, using a sensor module, a print media identifier from the print medium, the print media identifier having been linked to the content, and the content associated with previously printed content on the print medium; and, printing, using a printer, the content on the print medium.

Claims

1. A method of printing content using a print medium, comprising the steps of:

determining, using a sensor module, a print media identifier from the print medium, the print media identifier having been linked to the content, and the content associated with previously printed content on the print medium; and

,

printing, using a printer, the content on the print medium,

wherein the print medium has first coded data in a linear pattern and second coded data in a two-dimensional pattern, the first coded data encoding data indicative of the print media identifier and of size and orientation data of the print medium, and the second coded data encoding data indicative of the print media identifier and a two-dimensional coordinate grid, the first and second coded data each being encoded in a plurality of tags printed on the print medium, each tag having a structure which includes a target and the first and second coded data, the targets being sensed by the sensor module to determine the presence of the tags,

wherein the content is printed on a surface of the print medium opposite to a surface of the print medium having the previously printed content, and

the content and the previously printed content are different parts of a document.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the content is printed on the print medium by a printer module of a mobile telecommunications device.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the method includes paying for the content using the mobile telecommunications device.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the content is retrievable from a database using the print media identifier and the database is at least one of:

stored locally at the printer; and

stored remotely at a server.

5. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the content is automatically retrieved from the database and printed when the print medium is inserted into a media feed path of a mobile telecommunications device.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the previously printed content is a representation of an object and the content is information associated with the object.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the object is at least one of:

a photograph;

an image;

a video;

a video clip;

a video stream;

a movie;

an animation;

audio;

an audio clip;

an audio stream;

a sound;

a song;

music;

a ringtone;

a program;

a file;

an application;

a web page; and

a document.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the previously printed content is a photograph and the content is at least one of:

a date when the photograph was taken;

a time when the photograph was taken;

a location where the photograph was taken; and

information about the photograph.

9. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the type of surface of the print medium adjacent the printer selectively determines the content to be printed.

10. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the type of surface of the print medium adjacent the printer is determined using the sensed print media identifier.

11. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the types of surface of the print medium include:

blank;

matte;

gloss;

bordered;

framed;

colored;

patterned; and

textured.

12. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the encoded data is further indicative of a digital signature associated with the print media identifier, the method including:

determining, by reading at least some of the first and second coded data using the sensor module, the digital signature; and

printing, if the digital signature is authentic, the content.

13. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a printer module of a mobile telecommunications device prints at least some of the first and second coded data on the print medium.