Method of interacting with printed content via handheld display device

• US 8,358,429 B2
• Filed: 09/04/2011
• Issued: 01/22/2013
• 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, King, Tobin Allen
• Primary Examiner(s): PHAM, THIERRY L
• Application Number:
  US13/225,459
• Publication Number:
  US 20110316806A1
• Time in Patent Office: 506 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/445 Printers integrated in other types of apparatus, e.g. printers integrated in cameras
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Abstract

A method of interacting with printed content using a handheld display device. The method includes the steps of: imaging an area of a printed substrate and generating image data using an image sensor; determining interaction data using the image data, retrieving display data using an identified page description, the display data corresponding to the printed content; displaying, on an opaque touch-sensitive display screen of the handheld display device, display information based on the display data; and interacting with the display information via the opaque touch-sensitive display screen. The opaque touch-sensitive display screen has real-time virtual transparency through the screen to the printed content from a user'"'"'s perspective to provide a virtual window to the printed content.

Claims

1. A method of interacting with printed content using a handheld display device, said method comprising the steps of:

imaging an area of a printed substrate and generating image data using an image sensor of the handheld display device, the imaged area of the printed substrate containing the printed content;

determining interaction data using said image data, said interaction data identifying a page description corresponding to at least part of the printed substrate;

retrieving display data using the page description, said display data corresponding to at least some of the printed content;

displaying, on an opaque touch-sensitive display screen of the handheld display device, display information at least partially based on said display data, wherein the opaque touch-sensitive display screen has real-time virtual transparency through the screen to the printed content from a user'"'"'s perspective to provide a virtual window to the printed content; and

interacting with said display information via said opaque touch-sensitive display screen.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said device is a mobile phone or a personal digital assistant.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said display data is retrieved via a transceiver of said handheld display device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said interaction data identifies a position of the device relative to the printed substrate and said retrieved display data corresponds to a part of the substrate containing said position.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said device comprises a memory and said method further comprises the step of:

storing the retrieved display data in said memory.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

magnifying said display information.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

snapping said display information, wherein snapped display information is displayed irrespective of a position of said device relative to said substrate.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein a snapped displayed hyperlink remains interactive via said touch-sensitive display screen irrespective of the position of said device relative to said substrate.

9. The method of claim 7, further comprising the step of:

navigating a display page via said snapped display information, said display page corresponding to the printed substrate.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein said printed substrate comprises coded data disposed thereon or therein, said coded data identifying a substrate identity indexed with said page description.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein said coded data further identifies a plurality of locations on the substrate.

12. A handheld display device for interacting with printed content, said device comprising:

an optical sensor for imaging an area of a printed substrate containing the printed content and generating image data;

a processor for determining interaction data using the image data, said interaction data identifying a page description corresponding to at least part of the printed substrate;

a data retrieval unit for retrieving display data using the page description, said display data corresponding to at least some of the printed content; and

an opaque touch-sensitive display screen for displaying display information based at least partially on said display data,

wherein the opaque touch-sensitive display screen has real-time virtual transparency through the screen to the printed content from a user'"'"'s perspective to provide a virtual window to the printed content, and wherein the opaque touch-sensitive display screen enables user interactivity with the display information.

13. The handheld display device of claim 12, which is a mobile phone or a personal digital assistant.

14. The handheld display device of claim 13, wherein the data retrieval unit comprises a digital transceiver.

15. The handheld display device of claim 14, wherein said transceiver is at least one of:

a short-range wireless transceiver and a mobile phone transceiver.

16. The handheld display device of claim 12, wherein said interaction data identifies a position of the device relative to the printed substrate and said retrieved display data corresponds to a part of the substrate containing said position.

17. The handheld display device of claim 12, wherein said device comprises a memory for storing the retrieved display data.

18. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing an interactive application for execution on a handheld display device having an image sensor, a processor and an opaque touch-sensitive display screen, the interactive application being configured to operatively control the device so as to perform the steps of:

imaging an area of a printed substrate

and generating image data using the image sensor of the handheld display device, the imaged area of the printed substrate containing printed content;

determining interaction data using said image data, said interaction data identifying a page description corresponding to at least part of the printed substrate;

retrieving display data using the page description, said display data corresponding to at least some of the printed content;

displaying, on the opaque touch-sensitive display screen, display information at least partially based on said display data, wherein the opaque touch-sensitive display screen has real-time virtual transparency through the screen to the printed content from a user'"'"'s perspective to provide a virtual window to the printed content, wherein the interactive application is configured to operatively control the device so as to perform the further step of;

responding to user interactions with said display information via touch-sensitive display screen.