Article having a writing portion and preformed identifiers

• US 20060209053A1
• Filed: 06/24/2005
• Published: 09/21/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Searete LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Cohen, Alexander J., Lord, Robert W., Jung, Edward K.Y., Levien, Royce A., Malamud, Mark A., Rinaldo, John D. Jr.
• Granted Patent: US 8,749,480 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/179
• 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 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.

2. The article of claim 1, wherein the writing portion that accepts at least one hand-formed mark includes a writing surface portion that accepts at least one hand-formed mark.

3. The article of claim 2, wherein the writing surface portion that accepts at least one hand-formed mark includes a paper writing surface portion that accepts at least one hand-formed mark.

4. The article of claim 1, wherein the writing portion that accepts at least one hand-formed mark includes an electronic display surface portion that accepts at least one hand-formed mark.

5. The article of claim 1, wherein the writing portion that accepts at least one hand-formed mark includes a writing portion that accepts at least one mark formed by a marking element of a handwriting device.

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

7. The article of claim 1, wherein the 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 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, keyed to a data recipient, and associatable with the at least one hand-formed mark.

8. The article of claim 1, wherein the 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 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, keyed to a data recipient, and user associatable with the at least one hand-formed mark.

9. The article of claim 1, wherein the 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 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, keyed to a data recipient, predefined, and associatable with the at least one hand-formed mark.

10. The article of claim 1, wherein the 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 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, keyed to a data recipient and configured for a user gestural association with the at least one hand-formed mark.

11. The article of claim 1, wherein the 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 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, keyed to a data recipient, and capable of a user scanned association with the at least one hand-formed mark.

12. The article of claim 1, wherein the 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 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, keyed to a data recipient, and hand reproducible.

13. A device comprising:

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

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

14. The device of claim 13, wherein the surface includes a paper surface.

15. 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 machine-distinguishable tags, each machine-distinguishable tag of the at least two machine distinguishable tags respectively being correlatable with a data recipient and having a unique characterization;

a computer program product including;

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

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

receiving 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 computer-readable signal-bearing medium bearing the program instructions.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the writing portion of a surface that accepts a handwritten word and a hand-formed machine-distinguishable tag associated with the handwritten word includes a writing portion of a paper surface that accepts a handwritten word and a hand-formed machine-distinguishable tag associated with the handwritten word.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the receiving a signal indicative of the hand-formed machine-distinguishable tag keyed to a data recipient and associated with the handwritten word includes receiving a signal indicative of the hand-formed machine-distinguishable tag keyed to a data recipient and proximally associated with the handwritten word.