公开(公告)号：US08332401B2

公开(公告)日：2012-12-11

申请号：US11461294

申请日：2006-07-31

申请人： Jonathan J. Hull ,  Berna Erol ,  Peter E. Hart ,  Dar-Shyang Lee ,  Kurt Piersol

发明人： Jonathan J. Hull ,  Berna Erol ,  Peter E. Hart ,  Dar-Shyang Lee ,  Kurt Piersol

IPC分类号： G06F7/00 ,  G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/30247 ,  G06F17/30876 ,  G06F21/78 ,  G06F21/80 ,  G06K9/00463 ,  G06K9/00483 ,  G06K9/228 ,  G06K9/723 ,  G06K2209/01

摘要： A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and/or web link as a second medium). In one particular embodiment, the MMR system provides for position-based image matching.

摘要翻译： 公开了混合媒体现实（MMR）系统及其相关技术。 MMR系统提供用于形成包括至少两种类型的媒体（例如，作为第一媒体的打印纸和作为第二媒体的数字内容和/或web链接）的混合媒体文档的机制。 在一个特定实施例中，MMR系统提供基于位置的图像匹配。

公开(公告)号：US20120086982A1

公开(公告)日：2012-04-12

申请号：US13330492

申请日：2011-12-19

申请人： Jamey Graham ,  Kevin Ridout ,  Stephen A. Weyl ,  Jonathan J. Hull ,  Peter E. Hart ,  Kurt Piersol

发明人： Jamey Graham ,  Kevin Ridout ,  Stephen A. Weyl ,  Jonathan J. Hull ,  Peter E. Hart ,  Kurt Piersol

IPC分类号： G06F15/00

CPC分类号： H04N1/32133 ,  G06K9/325 ,  G06K9/4642 ,  G06K9/726 ,  G06K2209/01 ,  H04N1/34 ,  H04N2201/3249 ,  H04N2201/3269 ,  H04N2201/3273 ,  H04N2201/3274

摘要： A mixed media reality (MMR) system includes an MMR user, a MMR computer, a user printer that produces a printed document, a networked media server, an office portal, a service provider server, an electronic display that is electrically connected to a set-top box, a document scanner, a network, a capture device, a cellular infrastructure, wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) technology, Bluetooth® technology, infrared (IR) technology, wired technology, and a geo location mechanism. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types, such as printed paper as a first medium and a digital photograph, digital movie, digital audio file, or web link as a second medium. Furthermore, the MMR system facilitates business methods that take advantage of the combination of a portable electronic device, voice mail or email, and a paper document.

摘要翻译： 混合媒体现实（MMR）系统包括MMR用户，MMR计算机，产生打印文档的用户打印机，联网媒体服务器，办公室门户，服务提供者服务器，电连接到一组 - 文件扫描器，网络，捕获设备，蜂窝基础设施，无线保真（Wi-Fi）技术，蓝牙技术，红外（IR）技术，有线技术和地理定位机制）。 MMR系统提供用于形成混合媒体文档的机制，该混合媒体文档包括至少两种类型的媒体，例如作为第一媒体的打印纸和作为第二媒体的数字照片，数字电影，数字音频文件或网络链接。 此外，MMR系统便于利用便携式电子设备，语音邮件或电子邮件和纸质文档的组合的业务方法。

公开(公告)号：US20110081892A1

公开(公告)日：2011-04-07

申请号：US12879933

申请日：2010-09-10

申请人： Jamey Graham ,  Kevin Ridout ,  Stephen A. Weyl ,  Jonathan J. Hull ,  Peter E. Hart ,  Kurt Piersol

发明人： Jamey Graham ,  Kevin Ridout ,  Stephen A. Weyl ,  Jonathan J. Hull ,  Peter E. Hart ,  Kurt Piersol

IPC分类号： H04W4/12 ,  G06F3/12

CPC分类号： H04N1/32133 ,  G06K9/325 ,  G06K9/4642 ,  G06K9/726 ,  G06K2209/01 ,  H04N1/34 ,  H04N2201/3249 ,  H04N2201/3269 ,  H04N2201/3273 ,  H04N2201/3274

摘要： A mixed media reality (MMR) system includes an MMR user, a MMR computer, a user printer that produces a printed document, a networked media server, an office portal, a service provider server, an electronic display that is electrically connected to a set-top box, a document scanner, a network, a capture device, a cellular infrastructure, wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) technology, Bluetooth® technology, infrared (IR) technology, wired technology, and a geo location mechanism. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types, such as printed paper as a first medium and a digital photograph, digital movie, digital audio file, or web link as a second medium. Furthermore, the MMR system facilitates business methods that take advantage of the combination of a portable electronic device, voice mail or email, and a paper document.

摘要翻译： 混合媒体现实（MMR）系统包括MMR用户，MMR计算机，产生打印文档的用户打印机，联网媒体服务器，办公室门户，服务提供者服务器，电连接到一组 - 文件扫描器，网络，捕获设备，蜂窝基础设施，无线保真（Wi-Fi）技术，蓝牙技术，红外（IR）技术，有线技术和地理定位机制）。 MMR系统提供用于形成混合媒体文档的机制，该混合媒体文档包括至少两种类型的媒体，例如作为第一媒体的打印纸和作为第二媒体的数字照片，数字电影，数字音频文件或网络链接。 此外，MMR系统便于利用便携式电子设备，语音邮件或电子邮件和纸质文档的组合的业务方法。

公开(公告)号：US07672543B2

公开(公告)日：2010-03-02

申请号：US11461032

申请日：2006-07-31

申请人： Jonathan J. Hull ,  Berna Erol ,  Jamey Graham ,  Peter E. Hart ,  Dar-Shyang Lee ,  Kurt Piersol

发明人： Jonathan J. Hull ,  Berna Erol ,  Jamey Graham ,  Peter E. Hart ,  Dar-Shyang Lee ,  Kurt Piersol

IPC分类号： G06K9/60

CPC分类号： G06F17/3002 ,  G06K9/34 ,  G06K9/348 ,  G06K9/4642 ,  G06K2209/01

摘要： A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and/or web link as a second medium). In one particular embodiment, the MMR system includes an action processor and method, and MMR documents with an associated action. The MMR document structure is particularly advantageous because the ability to specify different actions for different MMR documents, combined with the ability to create any number of MMR documents for a particular location on any media, allows the MMR architecture to serve as a universal trigger or initiator for additional processing. In other words, addition processing or actions can be triggered or initiated based on MMR recognition. The action processor receives the output of the MMR recognition process which yields an MMR document including at least one action. The action processor executes that action which includes various commands to the MMR system or other systems coupled to the MMR system. The MMR system architecture is advantageous because an action can be executed by pointing the capture device at a block of text, and the action is performed. Example actions include retrieving the text in electronic form to the capture device, retrieving the specification for the action, inserting data to a MMR document, transferring data between documents, purchasing items, authoring actions or reviewing historical information about actions. The MMR system includes a variety of user applications (one or more actions) initiated by the MMR recognition of a text patch such as information retrieval for a travel guide book, stock listings or advertisements; information capture such as recording content from a conference, recording and storing multimedia associated with the document, capturing information for a calendar and on the fly authoring; purchasing media files for storage on any part of an MMR document.

公开(公告)号：US07328246B2

公开(公告)日：2008-02-05

申请号：US10643825

申请日：2003-08-19

申请人： Jonathan J. Hull ,  Kiyoshi Suzuki ,  Kurt Piersol

发明人： Jonathan J. Hull ,  Kiyoshi Suzuki ,  Kurt Piersol

IPC分类号： G06F15/16

CPC分类号： H04N1/00413 ,  H04N1/00424 ,  H04N1/00427 ,  H04N1/00472 ,  H04N1/00474 ,  H04N1/00482 ,  H04N1/00957 ,  H04N1/2179 ,  H04N1/2187 ,  H04N2201/0094 ,  Y10S707/99953 ,  Y10S707/99955

摘要： A graphical user interface that presents document destinations in terms of recipient objects readily familiar to the user is provided by the present invention. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for specifying delivery information for electronic documents can include the step of displaying a plurality of potential recipients to a user. Responsive to input from the user, the method can select at least one potential recipient from the plurality of potential recipients to form a plurality of selected recipients. The method then performs a scanning operation of a document to form an electronic copy of the document. The electronic copy of the document can be transmitted to the plurality of selected recipients. A step of incorporating the electronic copy of the document into a database belonging to each of the plurality of selected recipients is also included in the method.

摘要翻译： 通过本发明提供了一种以用户容易熟悉的收件人对象呈现文档目的地的图形用户界面。 根据本发明的一个实施例，一种用于指定电子文档的传送信息的方法可以包括向用户显示多个潜在接收者的步骤。 响应于来自用户的输入，该方法可以从多个潜在接收者中选择至少一个潜在接收者以形成多个选择的接收者。 该方法然后执行文档的扫描操作以形成文档的电子副本。 可以将文档的电子副本发送到多个所选择的接收者。 该方法还包括将文档的电子副本合并到属于多个选择的接收者中的每一个的数据库中的步骤。

公开(公告)号：US06704118B1

公开(公告)日：2004-03-09

申请号：US09430377

申请日：1999-10-29

申请人： Jonathan J. Hull ,  Kurt Piersol ,  Mark Peairs ,  John Cullen ,  Michael Baxter

发明人： Jonathan J. Hull ,  Kurt Piersol ,  Mark Peairs ,  John Cullen ,  Michael Baxter

IPC分类号： G06F1500

CPC分类号： H04N1/21 ,  G06Q99/00 ,  Y10S707/99945 ,  Y10S707/99948 ,  Y10S707/99953

摘要： According to the present invention, an automatic archiving system that makes document archiving largely transparent to the user. In one embodiment, documents scanned in or printed during the course of office equipment operation are automatically archived. For example, an office local area network (LAN) may interconnect a copier, a printer, a facsimile machine, and a document management workstation. Whenever, a document is copied, printed, or faxed, a document image is archived by the document management workstation without further user intervention. A single user command results in the document being copied and archived, printed and archived, or faxed and archived.

摘要翻译： 根据本发明，使得文档归档对用户大体上透明的自动归档系统。 在一个实施例中，在办公室设备操作过程中扫描或打印的文档被自动归档。 例如，办公室局域网（LAN）可以互连复印机，打印机，传真机和文档管理工作站。 每当文档被复制，打印或传真时，文档管理工作站将归档文档图像，无需进一步的用户干预。 单个用户命令导致文档被复制和归档，打印和归档，或传真和归档。

公开(公告)号：US08154769B2

公开(公告)日：2012-04-10

申请号：US11223768

申请日：2005-09-08

申请人： Max E. McFarland ,  Michael G. E. Griffin ,  Jonathan J. Hull ,  Kurt Piersol

发明人： Max E. McFarland ,  Michael G. E. Griffin ,  Jonathan J. Hull ,  Kurt Piersol

IPC分类号： H04N1/00

CPC分类号： H04N1/00355 ,  G06F21/608 ,  G06F21/6209 ,  G06F2221/2137 ,  H04N1/00363 ,  H04N1/00374 ,  H04N1/44 ,  H04N2201/0084 ,  H04N2201/0094

摘要： An evolutionary document system comprises: a multi-function printer, a recognition module, an evolutionary document processing module, a list of document identifiers and corresponding actions, and an evolutionary document creation module. The MFP includes software and control routines for processing and creating evolutionary documents. The recognition module is operable on the MFP and allows the MFP to determine an evolutionary document identification number from an image scanned by the MFP. The evolutionary document processing module is capable of matching an evolutionary document identification number to one or more steps or action stored in the list of document identifiers and corresponding actions. Once the actions have been identified, the evolutionary document processing module executes the actions. The present invention also includes an evolutionary document creation module for creating an evolutionary document including an identification code. The evolutionary document creation module also creates the actions associated with the evolutionary document and an entry in the list of document identifiers and corresponding actions. The present invention also includes a method for creating an evolutionary document, a method for processing an evolutionary document, and a method for printing an evolutionary document.

摘要翻译： 进化文档系统包括：多功能打印机，识别模块，进化文档处理模块，文档标识符列表和对应动作，以及进化文档创建模块。 MFP包括用于处理和创建进化文档的软件和控制程序。 识别模块可在MFP上操作并且允许MFP从MFP扫描的图像中确定进化文档识别号码。 进化文档处理模块能够将进化文档标识号与存储在文档标识符和对应动作列表中的一个或多个步骤或动作进行匹配。 一旦确定了动作，进化文档处理模块就执行动作。 本发明还包括用于创建包括识别码的进化文档的进化文档创建模块。 进化文档创建模块还创建与进化文档相关联的动作以及文档标识符和相应动作列表中的条目。 本发明还包括用于创建进化文档的方法，用于处理进化文档的方法以及用于打印进化文档的方法。

公开(公告)号：US08005831B2

公开(公告)日：2011-08-23

申请号：US11461272

申请日：2006-07-31

申请人： Jonathan J. Hull ,  Jamey Graham ,  Kurt Piersol ,  Daniel G. Van Olst

发明人： Jonathan J. Hull ,  Jamey Graham ,  Kurt Piersol ,  Daniel G. Van Olst

IPC分类号： G06F17/00

CPC分类号： G06K9/00442 ,  G06F17/30241

摘要： A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and/or web link as a second medium). In one particular embodiment, the MMR system provides a user with information related to the location of the user. The system acquires a document, extracts location related information from the document, identifies the location of the users, and provides information to the user based on the identified location and the extracted information.

摘要翻译： 公开了混合媒体现实（MMR）系统及其相关技术。 MMR系统提供用于形成包括至少两种类型的媒体（例如，作为第一媒体的打印纸和作为第二媒体的数字内容和/或web链接）的混合媒体文档的机制。 在一个特定实施例中，MMR系统向用户提供与用户的位置有关的信息。 系统获取文档，从文档中提取位置相关信息，识别用户的位置，并根据识别的位置和提取的信息向用户提供信息。

公开(公告)号：US08438164B2

公开(公告)日：2013-05-07

申请号：US11773894

申请日：2007-07-05

申请人： Jonathan J. Hull ,  Jamey Graham ,  Peter Hart ,  Kurt Piersol

发明人： Jonathan J. Hull ,  Jamey Graham ,  Peter Hart ,  Kurt Piersol

IPC分类号： G06F7/00

CPC分类号： G06Q30/02 ,  G06F17/30867 ,  Y10S707/913 ,  Y10S707/922 ,  Y10S707/99942 ,  Y10S707/99945

摘要： Techniques for providing relevant information to a user based on information or documents accessed or viewed by the user. The relevant information is provided automatically to the user without requiring user input. The information provided to the user is selected from information provided by various content provider systems. The present invention uses several techniques to determine relevancy between the contents of the document accessed by the user and between the information provided by the content provider systems. The relevancy information is used to select information to be provided to the user.

摘要翻译： 基于用户访问或查看的信息或文档向用户提供相关信息的技术。 相关信息自动提供给用户，无需用户输入。 从各种内容提供者系统提供的信息中选择提供给用户的信息。 本发明使用几种技术来确定由用户访问的文档的内容与由内容提供者系统提供的信息之间的相关性。 相关性信息用于选择要提供给用户的信息。

公开(公告)号：US07684068B2

公开(公告)日：2010-03-23

申请号：US10758067

申请日：2004-01-14

申请人： Jonathan J. Hull ,  Kurt Piersol ,  Mark Peairs ,  John Cullen ,  Michael Baxter

发明人： Jonathan J. Hull ,  Kurt Piersol ,  Mark Peairs ,  John Cullen ,  Michael Baxter

IPC分类号： G06F15/00 ,  H04N1/00

CPC分类号： H04N1/21 ,  G06Q99/00 ,  Y10S707/99945 ,  Y10S707/99948 ,  Y10S707/99953

摘要： According to the present invention, an automatic archiving system that makes document archiving largely transparent to the user. In one embodiment, documents scanned in or printed during the course of office equipment operation are automatically archived. For example, an office local area network (LAN) may interconnect a copier, a printer, a facsimile machine, and a document management workstation. Whenever, a document is copied, printed, or faxed, a document image is archived by the document management workstation without further user intervention. A single user command results in the document being copied and archived, printed and archived, or faxed and archived.

摘要翻译： 根据本发明，使得文档归档对用户大体上透明的自动归档系统。 在一个实施例中，在办公室设备操作过程中扫描或打印的文档被自动归档。 例如，办公室局域网（LAN）可以互连复印机，打印机，传真机和文档管理工作站。 每当文档被复制，打印或传真时，文档管理工作站将归档文档图像，无需进一步的用户干预。 单个用户命令导致文档被复制和归档，打印和归档，或传真和归档。