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Interactive application for retrieving content via imaging of printed substrate

  • US 8,089,654 B2
  • Filed: 03/30/2010
  • Issued: 01/03/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/01/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An interactive application for execution on a handheld display device having an image sensor, a transceiver and an opaque touch-sensitive screen, the interactive application being configured to operatively control the device so as to perform the steps of:

  • determining interaction data using image data captured by the image sensor, said image data being captured by imaging a printed substrate containing printed content;

    sending the interaction data to a computer system, thereby causing the computer system to identify a page description corresponding to the printed substrate and retrieve display data corresponding to at least some of the printed content using the identified page description;

    receiving the display data from the computer system; and

    displaying, on said opaque touch-sensitive screen, display content based on said received display data, wherein the opaque touch-sensitive screen enables interaction with the display content,wherein, from a user'"'"'s perspective, the opaque touch-sensitive screen has real-time virtual transparency through the screen to the printed content underlying said screen to provide a virtual window to the printed content underlying said screen.

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