EDITING DATA

• US 20090024918A1
• Filed: 09/17/2008
• Published: 01/22/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Original Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Inventors: King, Tobi Allen, Silverbrook, Kia
• Application Number:
  US12/212,631
• Publication Number:
  US 20090024918A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/255
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 13/12 specially adapted for small cards, envelopes, or the like , e.g. credit cards, cut visiting cards
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 19/207 Encoding along a bar
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/445 Printers integrated in other types of apparatus, e.g. printers integrated in cameras
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 15/02 Postcards; Greeting, menu, business or like cards; Letter cards or letter-sheets B42D25/00 takes precedence; envelopes B65D27/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/06037 multi-dimensional coding
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3829 involving key management

Abstract

A method of editing data generated by handwriting. The method comprises the steps of detecting initiation of editing; identifying a marking stroke which marks data that is to be edited; determining an extent of the marking stroke; identifying data which is contained within the marking stroke; and performing an editing operation on said data contained within the marking stroke.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of editing data generated by handwriting, comprising:

detecting initiation of editing;

identifying a marking stroke which marks data that is to be edited;

determining an extent of the marking stroke;

identifying data which is contained within the marking stroke; and

performing an editing operation on said data contained within the marking stroke.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of detecting initiation of editing is carried out before the step of identifying a marking stroke.

3. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the marking stroke is a lasso.

4. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said editing is pasting or deleting.

5. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said editing associates a desired attribute with the data contained within the marking stroke.

6. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of detecting an initiation of editing comprises the step of detecting the location of a handwriting device within an initiation area on a surface.

7. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data generated by handwriting represents a graphic image handwritten on a surface which is provided with a position code coding a plurality of positions on the surface, the position code being detectable by means of a device for such detection.

8. A method as claimed in claim 7, wherein said device comprises an optically imaging pen, the surface comprising an initiating portion and the step of detecting initiation comprising the step of detecting an application of the pen within the initiating portion.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the surface has a position code printed thereon, which comprises a plurality of tags, each tag comprising a group of dots and coding a unique position on the surface.

10. A computer-implemented method of editing data representing a graphic image which has been recorded when writing using an optically imaging pen on a surface which is provided with a position code coding a plurality of positions on the surface, the method comprising:

detecting initiation of editing;

identifying a marking stroke which comprises at least one coded position and which marks data that is to be edited;

determining an extent of the marking stroke;

identifying data which is contained within the marking stroke; and

performing an editing operation on said data contained within the marking stroke.

11. A method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the marking stroke is a lasso.

12. A method as claimed in claim 10, wherein said editing is pasting or deleting.

13. A method as claimed in claim 10, wherein said editing associates a desired attribute with the data contained within the marking stroke.

14. A handheld device comprising:

a writing implement for generating a visible mark on a writing surface;

a sensor for reading a position code on the writing surface and providing position data; and

a transmitter for transmitting the position data, wherein the position data is provided for detecting initiation of editing;

identifying a marking stroke which marks data that is to be edited;

determining an extent of the marking stroke;

identifying data which is contained within the marking stroke; and

performing an editing operation on said data contained within the marking stroke.