System and method for authoring and providing information relevant to a physical world

A computer-readable media having instructions for authoring information relevant to a physical world, the instructions performing steps comprising:

• detecting a first label associated with a first object;
• and
• triggering, in response to detecting, a system for authoring content to be unambiguously bound to the first object;
• wherein the content is to be rendered during detection of the first label by a device in a playback mode.

A computer-readable media having instructions for authoring content to be associated with objects in a physical world, the instructions performing steps comprising:

• normalizing a read object label associated with an object into an object identifier;
• placing the object identifier into a database;
• accepting content to be rendered when the object label is read in a playback mode;
• and
• binding the content to the object identifier in the database.

A method for providing information relevant to a physical world, comprising:

• detecting with a device a label associated with an object;
• normalizing information contained in the detected label into an object identifier;
• using the object identifier to search a database to find content bound to the object identifier;
• and
• rendering the content.

A computer-readable media having instructions for providing information relevant to a physical world, the instructions performing steps comprising:

• detecting a label associated with an object;
• normalizing information contained in the detected label into an object identifier;
• using the object identifier to search a database to find content bound to the object identifier;
• and
• rendering the content.

A method for providing information relevant to a physical world, comprising:

• storing an object identifier indicative of a plurality of read labels associated with an object into a database;
• and
• using the database to bind content to the object identifier and, accordingly, the object;
• whereby the content is renderable when any one of the plurality of labels is detected in a playback mode.

A method for providing information relevant to a physical world, comprising:

• associating one or more labels with each of a plurality of objects in a tour;
• storing an object identifier indicative or the one or more labels associated with each of the plurality of object in the tour in a database;
• authoring content relevant to each of the plurality of objects in the tour;
• and
• binding the content to an object identifier in the database which corresponds to the relevant one of the plurality of objects in the tour whereby the content is renderable when the label is detected by a playback device without regard to the order in which the content was authored.

A system for authoring and retrieving selected digital multimedia information relevant to a physical world, comprising:

• a plurality of machine readable labels relevant to the physical world;
• an apparatus for detecting the machine readable labels and including programming for normalizing information contained in the detected label into an object identifier;
• and
• a digital multimedia library accessible by the apparatus storing content indexed by the object identifiers.

An apparatus for authoring and providing information relevant to a physical world, comprising:

• circuitry for detecting a label associated with an object;
• and
• programming for normalizing information contained in the detected label into an object identifier;
• a system for authoring content in an authoring mode which content is to be unambiguously bound to the object identifier;
• and
• a system for rendering content in a playback mode, the content rendered being the content unambiguously bound to the object identifier associated with a detected label.