Mobile phone for interacting with underlying substrate

• US 8,111,408 B2
• Filed: 02/21/2010
• Issued: 02/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Original Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Inventors: Lapstun, Paul, Silverbrook, Kia
• Primary Examiner(s): PHAM, THIERRY L
• Application Number:
  US12/709,503
• Publication Number:
  US 20100144396A1
• Time in Patent Office: 716 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.1, 358/1.9, 358/1.11, 358/1.12, 358/1.13, 358/1.14, 358/1.15, 358/1.16, 358/1.17, 358/1.18
• US Class Current: 358/1.1
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/445 Printers integrated in other types of apparatus, e.g. printers integrated in cameras
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
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• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0321 by optically sensing the absolute position with respect to a regularly patterned surface forming a passive digitiser, e.g. pen optically detecting position indicative tags printed on a paper sheet constructional details of pen-shaped pointing devices G06F3/03545, G06F3/03542, G06F3/037
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03545 Pens or stylus
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• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27475 using interactive graphical means or pictorial representations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2755 by optical scanning
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72409 by interfacing with external accessories hands-free H04M1/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 : including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion
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• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0015 : First party call control architectures
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00204 : with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 : with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00307 : with a mobile telephone apparatus constructional features of portable telephone sets H04M1/0202; mobile radio systems H04W84/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00326 : with a data reading, recognizing or recording apparatus, e.g. with a bar-code apparatus arrangements for the associated working of recording or reproducing apparatus with related apparatus G11B31/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00392 : Other manual input means, e.g. digitisers or writing tablets
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• 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 1/32133 : on the same paper sheet, e.g. a facsimile page header
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32778 : using a mark-sheet or machine-readable code request
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/60 : using transform coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/61 : in combination with predictive coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 : embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/422 : Input-only peripherals , i.e. input devices connected to specially adapted client devices, e.g. global positioning system [GPS] input devices also receiving signals from specially adapted client devices H04N21/4104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42203 : sound input device, e.g. microphone
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 : Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 : Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
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• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3226 : of identification information or the like, e.g. ID code, index, title, part of an image, reduced-size image
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• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3274 : Storage or retrieval of prestored additional information
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• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 : Television signal recording
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• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 : by receiver means only
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 : Database or file accessing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/187 : Continuous sectional layer

Abstract

A mobile phone device configured for overlaying part of a substrate. The substrate contains a printed hyperlink and coded data identifying a plurality of positions on the substrate. The device includes: a mobile telephone transceiver; an optical sensor for reading the coded data; a processor for generating interaction data using the read coded data; and a touch-sensitive display screen for displaying information based on the interaction data. The displayed information includes a displayed hyperlink corresponding to the printed hyperlink. User interaction with the displayed hyperlink via the touch-sensitive display screen causes display of hyperlinked information on the screen.

Claims

1. A mobile phone device configured for overlaying at least part of a substrate, said part of said substrate including printed content containing a printed hyperlink embedded in text and coded data identifying a region identity and one or more positions on the substrate, said device comprising:

a mobile telephone transceiver;

an optical sensor for reading at least some of the coded data;

a processor for generating interaction data using the read coded data, said interaction data identifying the region identity and a position of the device relative to the substrate;

an opaque touch-sensitive display screen for displaying display information retrieved using the interaction data, said display information including a displayed hyperlink corresponding to the printed hyperlink,

wherein said display information matches and aligns with the printed content underlying said opaque display screen, such that the opaque display screen has real-time virtual transparency through the screen to the printed content underlying said screen from a user'"'"'s perspective to provide a virtual window to the printed content underlying said screen, and wherein user interaction with the displayed hyperlink causes retrieval and display of hyperlinked information on said screen.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein said region identity identifies a page description corresponding to said substrate, said page description comprising a description of said hyperlink.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein said mobile phone transceiver is configured for transmitting said interaction data to a server and receiving display data corresponding to said display information, said server being configured for interpreting said interaction data and retrieving display data corresponding to said display information.

4. The device of claim 1, further comprising a memory for storing a page description corresponding to said substrate, said page description being indexed with said region identity in said memory, wherein said processor is configured for interpreting said interaction data and generating said display information using said page description.

5. The device of claim 1 further comprising means for displaying zoomed-in information or zoomed-out information.

6. The device of claim 1 further comprising a stylus for interacting with the touch-sensitive display screen.

7. The device of claim 1 further comprising an accelerometer for detecting movement of the device.

8. The device of claim 1, further comprising means for snapping said display information, wherein snapped display information is displayed irrespective of a position of said device relative to said substrate.

9. The device of claim 8, wherein a snapped displayed hyperlink remains interactive via said touch-sensitive display screen irrespective of the position of said device relative to said substrate.

10. The device of claim 9 further comprising means for navigation of a display page via said snapped display information, said display page corresponding to the printed substrate.

11. The device of claim 10, wherein said means for navigation of said display page enables panning across said display page.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein said means for navigation of said display page comprises said touch-sensitive screen responsive to a panning interaction.

13. The device of claim 1, wherein said device comprises a power management system for powering down said display screen during periods of inactivity.

14. The device of claim 13, wherein said power management system is coupled with at least one input sensor for initiating powering up of said device, said input sensor being selected from the group consisting of:

said touch-sensitive display screen, said optical sensor and an accelerometer.

15. The device of claim 1 further comprising a printer for printing onto said substrate.

16. The device of claim 15, wherein said printer is configured to print onto said substrate when said device is stationary.