Semantic magazine pages

• US 9,177,199 B2
• Filed: 08/03/2011
• Issued: 11/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/03/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Original Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Inventors: Sanger, Kurt M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): ROBINSON, MARSHON L
• Application Number:
  US13/197,348
• Publication Number:
  US 20130035081A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,553 Days
• Field of Search: 715/251, 715/274, 715/746
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/142 using hand-held instruments; Constructional details of the instruments
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/414 Extracting the geometrical structure, e.g. layout tree; Block segmentation, e.g. bounding boxes for graphics or text

Abstract

A method for providing user interaction with a printed page (10) includes providing artwork (20) for a first page to be printed; providing a printing model to simulate a first printed page using the artwork; simulating the first page to be printed using the printing model; extracting a first set of features from the first simulated page (220); and embedding the first set of extracted features in a first URL (270). The invention includes printing the first page; capturing a digital image of the printed page (415) with a mobile device (400); extracting features (430) from the digital image; generating the URL associated with the digital image using the features extracted from the digital image; and navigating to the generated URL using a web browser (470).

Claims

1. A method for enabling user interaction with a printed page comprising:

having artwork for a first page to be printed;

providing a printing model to simulate a first printed page using artwork;

simulating the first page to be printed using the printing model to create a virtual proof;

extracting a first set of non-symbolic image features from the virtual proof page;

appending the first set of non-symbolic image features to a pre-determined URL to form a second URL;

printing the first page;

providing a website at the second URL and receiving an access request for the website

photographing the printed page by a user using a mobile device having a camera and a computer, operating a software application;

appending the first set of non-symbolic image features from the photograph to the pre-determined URL to form the second URL; and

accessing the website with the second URL.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein artwork includes graphic elements, images, watermarks, human recognizable features, machine recognizable features, text or any combination.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

embedding a publication specific tag in the pre-determined URL.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

saving the second URL in a table.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing artwork for a second page to be printed;

providing a printing model to simulate a second printed page using artwork;

simulating the second printed page using the printing model to create a virtual proof;

extracting a second set of non-symbolic image features from the virtual proof page;

appending the second set of non-symbolic image features to the pre-determined URL to form a third URL;

printing the second page; and

providing a new page at the website having the third URL and receiving an access request for the website.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

comparing the second set of non-symbolic image features to the first set of non-symbolic image features to determine if they are the same; and

modifying the artwork for the first page to be printed or for the second page to be printed if the sets of non-symbolic image features are determined to be the same.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

extracting non-symbolic image features from the digital image; and

generating the first URL associated with the digital image using the non-symbolic image features.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

navigating to the second URL using an internet browser.

9. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

downloading a set of URLs associated with a publication which contains said printed page;

testing the generated second URL associated with the digital image against each URL in the set of URLs to find the closest URL in the set of URLs; and

navigating to the closest URL using an internet browser.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

a camera model; and

applying the camera model to the virtual proof prior to extracting the first set of non-symbolic image features.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein:

a set of camera models are used to generate a set of first sets of non-symbolic image features; and

appending each first set of non-symbolic image features to the pre-determined URL to form a set of second URLs.

12. A method for enabling user interaction for a printed publication comprising:

having artwork for each page to be printed;

providing a printing model to simulate each printed page using artwork;

simulating each printed page using the printing model to create a virtual proof;

extracting a set of non-symbolic image features from each virtual proof;

appending the non-symbolic image features from each simulated page to a pre-determined URL to form a set of URLs;

printing the pages; and

providing a website with the set of URLs and receiving an access request for the website.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

comparing each set of extracted features with every other set of extracted features to determine if each set of extracted features is unique; and

if any set of extracted features are not unique modify the art work for at least one of the corresponding pages.

14. A method of user interaction with a printed page and website, comprising:

photographing a printed page;

extracting a first set of non-symbolic image features from the photograph;

appending the first set of non-symbolic image features from the photograph to a pre-determined URL to form a new URL; and

accessing a website associated with the new URL.

15. A method for enabling user interaction with a printed page comprising:

having artwork for a first page to be printed;

providing a printing model to simulate a first printed page using artwork;

simulating the first page to be printed using the printing model to create a virtual proof;

extracting a first set of non-symbolic image features from the virtual proof page;

appending the first set of non-symbolic image features to a pre-determined URL to form a second URL;

printing the first page;

providing a website at the second URL and receiving an access request for the website; and

wherein the features include one or more of image density, image color, sub-area color, contrast, sub-area contrast, maximum spatial frequency information, screen angles and halftone screen frequency.