ADDING, DELETING DIGITAL NOTES FROM A GROUP OF DIGITAL NOTES

• US 20150106754A1
• Filed: 10/15/2014
• Published: 04/16/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company (3M Company)
• Original Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company (3M Company)
• Inventors: Somasundaram, Guruprasad, Moran, Cristin E., Mahli, David M., Wolk, Diane R., Moore, Richard J., Axelsson, Pontus, Rotstein, Michael, Persson, Roland
• Granted Patent: US 9,310,983 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/765
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1827 Network arrangements for conference optimisation or adaptation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/08 Annexed information, e.g. attachments

Abstract

In general, the disclosure describes techniques for creating and manipulating software notes representative of physical notes. A computing device includes a processor, an image collection module configured to receive an input image of an environment having a plurality of physical notes, an image processing engine configured to identify the plurality of physical notes in the input image and generate a plurality of digital notes corresponding to the plurality of notes identified in the input image, wherein the plurality of digital notes include information represented by the plurality of notes in the input image, and a graphical user interface configured to display the input image overlaid with the plurality of digital notes in place of the identified plurality of notes on a first portion of the graphical user interface and to display a set of one or more of the digital notes on a second portion of the graphical user interface.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a computing device, an input image of an environment having a plurality of physical notes;

processing the input image with the computing device to identify the plurality of physical notes in the input image;

generating, by the computing device, a plurality of digital notes corresponding to the plurality of notes identified in the input image, wherein the plurality of digital notes include information represented by the plurality of notes in the input image;

displaying, on a first portion of a graphical user interface of the computing device, the input image overlaid with the plurality of digital notes in place of the identified plurality of notes; and

displaying, by the computing device, a set of one or more of the plurality of digital notes on a second portion of the graphical user interface, wherein each of the digital notes in the set of digital notes displayed in the second portion corresponds to a respective one of the plurality of digital notes displayed in the first portion and overlaid on the input image.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the computing device, a user input selecting for deletion at least one of the plurality of digital notes displayed in the first portion of the graphical user interface; and

removing, by the computing device and from the set of digital notes displayed in the second portion of the graphical user interface, digital notes that correspond to the digital notes of the first portion of the graphical user interface selected for deletion.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of digital notes from the first portion is greater than the plurality of digital notes in the second portion, the method further comprising:

receiving, by the computing device, a user input selecting at least one of the digital notes from the first portion that is not displayed in the second portion; and

adding, by the computing device, the selected digital note from the first portion to the set of digital notes displayed on the second portion.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

receiving, by the computing device, a user input selecting a subset of the plurality of digital notes; and

grouping, by the computing device, the selected subset of digital notes to form one or more groups.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the one or more groups are organized according to a group hierarchy defined by the user input.

6. A computer system configured to:

receive, by a computing device, an input image of an environment having a plurality of physical notes;

process the input image with the computing device to identify the plurality of physical notes in the input image;

generate, by the computing device, a plurality of digital notes corresponding to the plurality of notes identified in the input image, wherein the plurality of digital notes include information represented by the plurality of notes in the input image;

display, on a first portion of a graphical user interface of the computing device, the input image overlaid with the plurality of digital notes in place of the identified plurality of notes; and

display, by the computing device, a set of one or more of the plurality of digital notes on a second portion of the graphical user interface, wherein each of the digital notes in the set of digital notes displayed in the second portion corresponds to a respective one of the plurality of digital notes displayed in the first portion and overlaid on the input image.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that cause a programmable processor to:

receive, by a computing device, an input image of an environment having a plurality of physical notes;

process the input image with the computing device to identify the plurality of physical notes in the input image;

generate, by the computing device, a plurality of digital notes corresponding to the plurality of notes identified in the input image, wherein the plurality of digital notes include information represented by the plurality of notes in the input image;

display, on a first portion of a graphical user interface of the computing device, the input image overlaid with the plurality of digital notes in place of the identified plurality of notes; and

display, by the computing device, a set of one or more of the plurality of digital notes on a second portion of the graphical user interface, wherein each of the digital notes in the set of digital notes displayed in the second portion corresponds to a respective one of the plurality of digital notes displayed in the first portion and overlaid on the input image.

8. A computing device comprising:

a processor;

an image collection module executable by the processor and configured to receive an input image of an environment having a plurality of physical notes;

an image processing engine executable by the processor and configured to identify the plurality of physical notes in the input image and generate a plurality of digital notes corresponding to the plurality of notes identified in the input image, wherein the plurality of digital notes include information represented by the plurality of notes in the input image; and

a graphical user interface configured to display the input image overlaid with the plurality of digital notes in place of the identified plurality of notes on a first portion of the graphical user interface and to display a set of one or more of the digital notes on a second portion of the graphical user interface.

9. The device of claim 8, wherein the image collection module includes an image capture device configured to capture the input image.

10. The device of claim 8, wherein the image collection module includes a communication interface configured to receive the input image.

11. The device of claim 10, wherein the communication interface includes a wireless communication device configured to receive the input image.

12. The device of claim 10, wherein the communication interface includes a wired communication device configured to receive the input image.

13. The device of claim 8, wherein the user interface is further configured to:

receive a user input selecting for deletion at least one of the plurality of digital notes displayed in the first portion of the graphical user interface; and

remove, from the set of digital notes displayed in the second portion of the graphical user interface, any of the digital notes that correspond to the digital notes of the first portion of the graphical user interface selected for deletion.

14. The device of claim 8, wherein the plurality of digital notes from the first portion is greater than the plurality of digital notes in the second portion the image, and wherein the processing engine is further configured to:

receive a user input selecting at least one of the plurality of digital notes from the first portion that is not in the second portion; and

add the selected plurality of digital notes from the first portion to the second portion.

15. The device of claim 8, wherein the image processing engine is further configured to:

receive a user input selecting at least one of the plurality of digital notes between the first portion and the second portion; and

group the selected plurality of digital notes between the first portion and the second portion to form one or more groups.

16. The device of claim 15, wherein the one or more groups are organized accordingly to a group hierarchy defined by the user input.

17. The device of claim 15, wherein the image processing engine is further configured to display indications of the one or more groups in conjunction with the plurality of digital notes presented on the first portion.

18. The device of claim 15, wherein the image processing engine is further configured to display indications of the one or more groups in conjunction with the plurality of digital notes presented on the second portion.