Method of printing and retrieving information using a mobile telecommunications device
AssigneeSilverbrook Research Pty Ltd
InventorsKia Silverbrook, Paul Lapstun
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Abstract
A method of printing first information using a mobile telecommunications device and retrieving further information. The method comprises the steps of: providing a print medium having a linear data track and a two-dimensional coding pattern; printing the first information; automatically reading and decoding the data track during printing to determine a print media identifier; communicating the print media identifier to a computer system; interacting with the print medium and sensing the coding pattern; decoding the sensed coding pattern to determine the print media identifier and a two-dimensional coordinate position; and retrieving further information.
Claims10
A method of printing first information on a print medium using a mobile telecommunications device and retrieving further information, said method comprising the steps of:
- providing the print medium having a linear data track extending along a side of the print medium and a two-dimensional coding pattern disposed across a face of the print medium, said linear data track identifying at least a print media identifier, said two-dimensional coding pattern identifying at least the print media identifier and a plurality of locations in a two-dimensional coordinate grid;
- printing the first information onto the print medium using a printer module of the mobile telecommunications device;
- automatically reading the data track during said printing using an optical encoder positioned in a media path of the printer module;
- decoding the read data track to determine the print media identifier;
- communicating the print media identifier to a computer system, thereby causing the computer system to associate the print media identifier with the printed first information so as to create a linked page description;
- interacting with the print medium and sensing part of the two-dimensional coding pattern using a sensor module of the mobile telecommunications device;
- decoding the sensed coding pattern to determine the print media identifier and a two-dimensional coordinate position;
- and
- retrieving, using the mobile telecommunications device, the decoded coded pattern and the linked page description, at least one of:
- the first information and second information identified by said linked page description.
A system for printing first information on a print medium and retrieving further information, said system comprising:
- (A) a print medium having a linear data track extending along a side of the print medium and a two-dimensional coding pattern disposed across a face of the print medium, said linear data track identifying at least a print media identifier, said two-dimensional coding pattern identifying at least the print media identifier and a plurality of locations in a two-dimensional coordinate grid;
- (B) a mobile telecommunications device comprising:
- a media path for receiving the print medium;
- a printer module for printing the first information onto the print medium;
- an optical encoder positioned in the media path for automatically reading the data track during said printing;
- a processor for decoding the read data track and determining the print media identifier;
- a sensor module for interacting with the print medium and sensing part of the two-dimensional coding pattern;
- a transceiver for:
- communicating the print media identifier to a computer system, thereby causing the computer system to associate the print media identifier with the printed first information so as to create a linked page description;
- and
- retrieving at least one of:
- the first information and second information identified by said linked page description in response to the said sensor module interacting with said print medium;
- and
- a display for displaying at least one of:
- the retrieved first information and the second information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.