Capture and link object

• US 7,864,360 B2
• Filed: 09/19/2005
• Issued: 01/04/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Original Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Inventors: Hollins, Michael J, Silverbrook, Kia, Lapstun, Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): Pham; Thierry L
• Application Number:
  US11/228,523
• Publication Number:
  US 20060012814A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,933 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.1, 358/1.9, 358 111- 118
• US Class Current: 358/1.16
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/445 Printers integrated in other types of apparatus, e.g. printers integrated in cameras
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1656 Details related to functional adaptations of the enclosure, e.g. to provide protection against EMI, shock, water, or to host detachable peripherals like a mouse or removable expansions units like PCMCIA cards, or to provide access to internal components for maintenance or to removable storage supports like CDs or DVDs, or to mechanically mount accessories mounting of accessories to a computer display G06F1/1607; display hoods G06F1/1603; cooling arrangements for portable computers G06F1/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1684 Constructional details or arrangements related to integrated I/O peripherals not covered by groups G06F1/1635 - G06F1/1675
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1688 the I/O peripheral being integrated loudspeakers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0384 Wireless input, i.e. hardware and software details of wireless interface arrangements for pointing devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0321 by optically sensing the absolute position with respect to a regularly patterned surface forming a passive digitiser, e.g. pen optically detecting position indicative tags printed on a paper sheet constructional details of pen-shaped pointing devices G06F3/03545, G06F3/03542, G06F3/037
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03545 Pens or stylus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/16 Sound input; Sound output speech processing G10L
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27475 using interactive graphical means or pictorial representations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2755 by optical scanning
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72409 by interfacing with external accessories hands-free H04M1/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 : including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42 : Systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers specially adapted for wireless communication networks H04W4/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0015 : First party call control architectures
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00204 : with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 : with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00307 : with a mobile telephone apparatus constructional features of portable telephone sets H04M1/0202; mobile radio systems H04W84/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00326 : with a data reading, recognizing or recording apparatus, e.g. with a bar-code apparatus arrangements for the associated working of recording or reproducing apparatus with related apparatus G11B31/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00392 : Other manual input means, e.g. digitisers or writing tablets
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00968 : by scanning marks on a sheet mark-sheet input means H04N1/00355; sensing record carriers G06K7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32122 : in a separate device, e.g. in a memory or on a display separate from image data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32133 : on the same paper sheet, e.g. a facsimile page header
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32778 : using a mark-sheet or machine-readable code request
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/60 : using transform coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/61 : in combination with predictive coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 : embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/422 : Input-only peripherals , i.e. input devices connected to specially adapted client devices, e.g. global positioning system [GPS] input devices also receiving signals from specially adapted client devices H04N21/4104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42203 : sound input device, e.g. microphone
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 : Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 : Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0082 : Image hardcopy reproducer H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3226 : of identification information or the like, e.g. ID code, index, title, part of an image, reduced-size image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3247 : Data linking a set of images to one another, e.g. sequence, burst or continuous capture mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3264 : of sound signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3269 : of machine readable codes or marks, e.g. bar codes or glyphs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3274 : Storage or retrieval of prestored additional information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/445 : for displaying additional information H04N5/50 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 : Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 : Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/783 : Adaptations for reproducing at a rate different from the recording rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/907 : using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories H04N5/91 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 : by receiver means only
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 : Database or file accessing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/187 : Continuous sectional layer

Abstract

A method of capturing an object and linking the object to a print medium, the method including: capturing the object; and submitting a request to associate the object with a print media identifier of the print medium, submission of the request facilitating identification of the object and the print media identifier; wherein, the association of the object and the print media identifier is recorded in a database, the object retrievable from the database using the print media identifier.

Claims

1. A method of capturing an object and linking the object to a print medium, the method including:

capturing the object via a digital camera, a video camera or an audio recorder;

storing the object in a virtual clipboard;

designating an attach button on the print medium using an optically imaging sensing device, the print medium being provided with a two-dimensional coded data pattern, the coded data pattern identifying the print media identifier and a two-dimensional coordinate grid;

subsequently designating, using the sensing device, a zone of the print medium for association of the object;

reading, using the sensing device, the print media identifier and a coordinate location from the coded data pattern;

submitting a request from the sensing device to associate the object with the zone of the print medium, said request identifying the object, the print media identifier and the coordinate location;

wherein, the association of the object, the print media identifier and the coordinate location is recorded in a database, the object being retrievable from the database using the print media identifier.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the method includes:

recording, using a recording device, a plurality of objects in an object repository; and

determining, using the object repository, the object.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the method includes:

recording, using the recording device, the plurality of objects in the object repository, wherein the plurality of objects in the object repository are ordered according to when the objects were recorded in the object repository; and

determining, using the order indicated by the object repository, the object which has been most recently recorded in the object repository.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the print medium is supplied to a user with at least one pre-associated object.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a mobile telecommunications device comprises at least one of:

the digital camera, the video camera and the audio recorder.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5, further including the steps of:

receiving the print medium in a media feed path of the mobile telecommunications device; and

reading the print media identifier from the print medium using a sensor module of the mobile telecommunications device, said sensor module comprising the optically imaging sensing device.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the sensor module is one of:

integrated with the mobile telecommunications device; and

external to the mobile telecommunications device.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the print medium is provided with first coded data in a first format and second coded data in a second format, the first coded data encoding first information and the second coded data encoding second information, at least some of the first information being indicative of the print media identifier, the first format being a linear pattern, at least some of the second information being indicative of the print media identifier and of the two-dimensional coordinate grid, the second format being the two-dimensional pattern.

9. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the method includes:

when the print medium is presented in the media feed path, sensing, using the sensor module, at least some of the coded data pattern; and

determining, using at least some of the sensed coded data pattern, the print media identifier.

10. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the mobile telecommunications device comprises a printer operatively positioned for printing onto print media fed through said media feed path.

11. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the coded data pattern further identifies a digital signature associated with the print media identifier, the method including:

determining, by sensing at least some of the coded data using the sensor module, the digital signature; and

if the digital signature is authentic, submitting the request to associate the object with the print media identifier and the coordinate location.

12. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the digital signature includes at least one of:

a random number;

a secret-key digital signature; and

a public-key digital signature.

13. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the printer prints at least some of the coded data pattern on the print medium.

14. The method according to claim 10, wherein the method includes:

generating, using the object, an object representation; and

,

printing, using the printer, the object representation on the print medium.

15. The method according to claim 1, wherein the coded data pattern is substantially invisible to an unaided human.

16. The method according to claim 1, wherein the coded data pattern is printed on the print medium using at least one of:

an invisible ink; and

,

an infrared-absorptive ink.