Article having a writing portion and preformed identifiers

• US 8,749,480 B2
• Filed: 06/24/2005
• Issued: 06/10/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Cohen, Alexander J., Jung, Edward K. Y., Levien, Royce A., Lord, Robert W., Malamud, Mark A., Rinaldo, John D. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Pervan, Michael
• Application Number:
  US11/167,072
• Publication Number:
  US 20060209053A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,273 Days
• Field of Search: 345/156, 345179-184, 178 1801- 1811, 178 1901- 1907
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/002 Specific input/output arrangements not covered by G06F3/01 - G06F3/16 other optical apparatus G02B27/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03545 Pens or stylus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/12 Details of acquisition arrangements; Constructional details thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/10 Character recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/1423 the instrument generating sequences of position coordinates corresponding to handwriting preprocessing or recognising digital ink G06V30/32
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/1448 based on markings or identifiers characterising the document or the area
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/32 Digital ink

Abstract

Embodiments include an article of manufacture, apparatus, device, system, computer-program product, and method. In an embodiment, an article of manufacture method is provided that includes a writing portion that accepts at least one hand-formed mark. The article of manufacture also includes a tag portion displaying at least two machine-distinguishable tags, each machine-distinguishable tag of the at least two machine-distinguishable tags being unique and keyed to a data recipient.

Claims

1. An article of manufacture comprising:

a writing portion that accepts at least one hand-formed mark and a handwritten word proximate to the at least one hand-formed mark; and

a tag portion displaying at least two machine-distinguishable tags, each machine distinguishable tag of the at least two machine-distinguishable tags being unique and keyed to a data recipient, the data recipient for each of the at least two machine distinguishable tags being unique, the at least one hand-formed mark being associated with at least one of the at least two machine-distinguishable tags.

2. The article of claim 1, wherein the writing portion includes a writing surface portion.

3. The article of claim 2, wherein the writing surface portion includes a paper writing surface portion.

4. The article of claim 1, wherein the writing portion includes an electronic display surface portion.

5. The article of claim 1, wherein the at least one hand-formed mark being formed by a marking element of a handwriting device.

6. The article of claim 1, wherein the at least one hand-formed mark being formed by an ink disbursed from a pen.

7. The article of claim 1, wherein the at least one hand-formed mark includes at least one hand-formed mark configured for user association.

8. The article of claim 1, wherein the at least one hand-formed mark includes at least one hand-formed mark configured for a user gestural association.

9. The article of claim 1, wherein a shape of the at least one hand-formed mark corresponds to a shape of a particular machine-distinguishable tag.

10. The article of claim 1, wherein the data recipient for each of the at least two hand-formed machine-distinguishable tags includes separate physical memory.

11. The article of claim 1, wherein the data recipient for each of the at least two hand-formed machine-distinguishable tags includes memory on different devices.

12. The article of claim 1, wherein the writing portion that accepts at least one hand-formed mark and a handwritten word proximate to the at least one hand-formed mark comprises:

a writing portion that accepts, using at least an image capture module, at least the one hand-formed mark and the handwritten word proximate to the at least one hand-formed mark, the image capture module including at least a human wearable annotation system.

13. The article of claim 1, wherein the writing portion that accepts at least one hand-formed mark and a handwritten word proximate to the at least one hand-formed mark comprises:

a writing portion that accepts, using at least an image capture module, at least the one hand-formed mark and the handwritten word proximate to the at least one hand-formed mark, the image capture module including at least a head mountable system.

14. A device comprising:

a writing portion of a surface that accepts at least one handwritten word and a hand-formed machine-distinguishable tag drawn proximate to the handwritten word; and

a tag portion of the surface displaying at least two hand-formed machine-distinguishable tags and a characterization for each hand-formed machine-distinguishable tag, each hand-formed machine-distinguishable tag respectively being correlatable to a data recipient, wherein the data recipient for each of the at least two hand-formed machine-distinguishable tags being unique.

15. The device of claim 14, wherein the surface includes a paper surface.

16. A system comprising:

a device including;

a writing portion of a surface that accepts a handwritten word and a hand-formed machine-distinguishable tag associated with the handwritten word; and

a tag portion of the surface displaying at least two hand-formed machine-distinguishable tags, each hand-formed machine-distinguishable tag of the at least two hand-formed machine distinguishable tags respectively being correlatable with a data recipient and having a unique characterization, wherein the data recipient for each of the at least two hand-formed machine distinguishable tags being unique; and

a computer program product including;

(a) program instructions operable to perform a process, the process comprising;

receiving a signal indicative of the handwritten word on the writing portion of a surface;

receiving, from a handheld marking device, a signal indicative of the hand-formed machine-distinguishable tag keyed to a data recipient and associated with the handwritten word; and

distributing a representation of the handwritten word to the data recipient in response to the hand-formed machine-distinguishable tag; and

(b) a non-transitory signal-bearing medium bearing the program instructions.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the surface includes a paper surface.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the signal being proximally associated with the handwritten word.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein each hand-formed machine-distinguishable tag of the at least two hand-formed machine distinguishable tags being temporally associated with the handwritten word.