Data capture from rendered documents using handheld device
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1. A method comprising:
- capturing, using a mobile phone, information from a rendered document;
obtaining, using the mobile phone, a location-stamp indicating a location of the mobile phone at which the information captured from the rendered document was captured;
storing, in a memory of the mobile phone, the information captured from the rendered document and the location-stamp;
transmitting, from the mobile phone to a search engine, a search query to identify a source document of the rendered document in a set of source documents, wherein the search query includes the information captured from the rendered document and the location-stamp; and
receiving, by the mobile device and from the search engine, an electronic version of the source document based on the search engine identifying the source document from a subset of source documents of the set of source documents by the information captured from the rendered document and the location-stamp, wherein the subset of source documents is determined by the location-stamp.
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Abstract
A portable device having scanning, imaging or other data-capture capability is described. In some cases, the portable device can indicate to the user when enough information has been captured to uniquely identify a source document. In some cases, the portable device calculates timestamps and location-stamps indicating when and where a data capture occurred. In some cases, the portable device is controlled by gestures. In some cases, the portable scanning device has associated billing and content/service subscription information.
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21 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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capturing, using a mobile phone, information from a rendered document; obtaining, using the mobile phone, a location-stamp indicating a location of the mobile phone at which the information captured from the rendered document was captured; storing, in a memory of the mobile phone, the information captured from the rendered document and the location-stamp; transmitting, from the mobile phone to a search engine, a search query to identify a source document of the rendered document in a set of source documents, wherein the search query includes the information captured from the rendered document and the location-stamp; and receiving, by the mobile device and from the search engine, an electronic version of the source document based on the search engine identifying the source document from a subset of source documents of the set of source documents by the information captured from the rendered document and the location-stamp, wherein the subset of source documents is determined by the location-stamp. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A system comprising:
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a user interface to capture information from a rendered document; a location module to obtain a location-stamp indicating a location of the mobile phone at which the information captured from the rendered document was captured; a memory to store the information captured from the rendered document and the location-stamp; and a communications interface including a transceiver that transmits, to a wireless network, a search query to identify a source document of the rendered document in a set of source documents, wherein the search query includes the information captured from the rendered document and the location-stamp, wherein the communications interface is configured to receive an electronic version of the source document, from a search engine, based on the search engine identifying the source document from a subset of source documents of the set of source documents by the information captured from the rendered document and the location-stamp, wherein the subset of source documents is determined by the location-stamp. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19)
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20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer instructions executable by a processor of a mobile phone to cause performance of the following operations:
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capturing, using a mobile phone, information from a rendered document; obtaining, using the mobile phone, a location-stamp indicating a location of the mobile phone at which the information captured from the rendered document was captured; storing, in a memory of the mobile phone, the information captured from the rendered document and the location-stamp; transmitting, from the mobile phone to a search engine, a search query to identify a source document of the rendered document in a set of source documents, wherein the search query includes the information captured from the rendered document and the location-stamp; and receiving, by the mobile device and from the search engine, an electronic version of the source document based on the search engine identifying the source document from a subset of source documents of the set of source documents by the information captured from the rendered document and the location-stamp, wherein the subset of source documents is determined by the location-stamp.
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21. A method, comprising:
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receiving, by a search engine and from a mobile device, a search query including information from a rendered document and a location-stamp indicating a location of the mobile phone at which the information captured from the rendered document was captured; identifying, by the search engine, a subset of source documents from a set of source documents based on the location-stamp of the rendered document, wherein the rendered document is included in at least one of the source documents of the subset of source documents; determining, by the search engine, the source document from the subset of source documents based on the information captured from the rendered document and the location-stamp; and sending, by the search engine to the mobile device, an electronic version of the source document.
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