Method and system for creating and accessing hyperlinks from annotations relating to a physical document
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorFernando Incertis Carro
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Abstract
A method of creating hyperlinks from annotations relating to a physical document comprises the steps of receiving a digitized handwritten annotation created with a stylus on a transparent digitizing tablet superposed on the document and transmitting the annotation to a transparent electro-luminescent display superposed on the document in order to display the handwritten annotation. It also comprises a step of storing the coordinates of a centered point of said handwritten annotation in association with said digitized handwritten annotation; and a step of receiving and storing identification and location of information associated with said coordinates.
Claims14
A method of creating hyperlinks from annotations relating to a physical document, comprising the steps of:
- receiving a digitized handwritten annotation created with a stylus on a transparent digitizing tablet superposed on the document;
- transmitting said digitized handwritten annotation to a transparent electro-luminescent display superposed on the document in order to display the handwritten annotation;
- storing coordinates of a centered point of said digitized handwritten annotation in association with said digitized handwritten annotation;
- and
- receiving and storing identification and location of information associated with said coordinates.
A system of creating hyperlinks from annotations relating to a physical document, comprising:
- a transparent digitizing tablet;
- a stylus adapted to cooperate with the transparent digitizing tablet in order to capture handwritten annotations;
- a transparent electro-luminescent display;
- and
- a computer system, wherein
- said transparent digitizing tablet comprises means for digitizing handwritten annotations created by stylus;
- said transparent electro-luminescent display comprises means for displaying said handwritten annotations;
- and said computer system comprises means for computing and storing coordinates of a centered point of the handwritten annotations and means for receiving and storing in association with said coordinates identification and location of information.
A method of accessing information or services by touching hyperlinked annotations relating to a physical document, comprising the steps of:
- identifying a physical document;
- retrieving from an annotation table handwritten annotations relating to said physical document;
- sending said handwritten annotations to a transparent electro-luminescent display superposed on the document in order to display said handwritten annotations through said transparent electro-luminescent display;
- identifying at least one handwritten annotation selected with a stylus cooperating with a transparent digitizing tablet superposed on the document;
- identifying and locating the information or service associated with said selected handwritten annotations in the annotation table;
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- accessing said information or service.
A system of accessing information or services by touching hyperlinked annotations relating to a physical document, comprising:
- a transparent digitizing tablet;
- a stylus adapted to cooperate with the transparent digitizing tablet in order to select at least one handwritten annotation;
- a transparent electro-luminescent display;
- and
- a computer system comprising means for retrieving handwritten annotations from an annotation table relating to said physical document and for displaying said handwritten annotation through a transparent electro-luminescent display superposed on said document;
- means for identifying and locating the information associated with a selected handwritten annotation in the annotation table;
- and means for accessing said information or service.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.