Method for accessing hyperlinks and hyperlinked content via mobile phone
AssigneeSilverbrook Research Pty Ltd
InventorsKia Silverbrook, Paul Lapstun
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Abstract
A method for accessing content from a computer network, the method comprising the steps of: (a) capturing an image of a substrate with a mobile phone having an optical image sensor; (b) forming on the mobile phone, a request based on the captured image; (c) transmitting, from the mobile phone via an associated mobile phone network, the request to a server on the computer network, the computer network being interoperable with the mobile phone network; (d) identifying content associated with the first identifier; and (e) receiving the content in the mobile phone.
Claims4
A method for accessing content from a computer network via a handheld device equipped with mobile telephony, an opaque touch-sensitive display screen and an optical image sensor, said method comprising the steps of:
- (a) interacting with a substrate having printed content containing a printed hyperlink and capturing an image of at least part of the substrate using the optical image sensor;
- (b) forming on the device, a request based on the captured image;
- (c) transmitting, from the device via an associated mobile phone network, the request to a first server on the computer network, said computer network being interoperable with the mobile phone network;
- (d) receiving content associated with the request in the device, said content including a hyperlink corresponding to the printed hyperlink;
- (e) displaying, on the opaque touch-sensitive display screen, display information based on said received content, said display information including a displayed hyperlink corresponding to the printed hyperlink, wherein, from a user's perspective, the opaque display screen has real-time virtual transparency through the opaque screen to the printed content underlying said screen to provide a virtual window to the printed content underlying said screen;
- (f) interacting with the displayed hyperlink via said touch-sensitive display screen;
- (g) retrieving hyperlinked information corresponding to said hyperlink;
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- (h) displaying said hyperlinked information on said screen.
A handheld device for accessing content from a computer network, said device comprising:
- a. a mobile phone transceiver;
- b. an optical image sensor;
- c. an opaque touch-sensitive display screen;
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- d. processing circuitry adapted to:
- i. cause the mobile phone transceiver to communicate with the mobile phone network, and thereby to communicate with a server interoperable with the mobile phone network;
- capture, via the optical image sensor, an image of at least part of a substrate, said substrate having printed content containing a printed hyperlink;
- iii, form a request based on the captured image;
- iv. transmit, via the mobile phone network, the request to the server on the computer network;
- v. receive content associated with the first identifier, said content included a hyperlink corresponding to the printed hyperlink;
- vi. display information based on said received content, said information including a displayed hyperlink corresponding to the printed hyperlink, such that, from a user's perspective, the opaque display screen has real-time virtual transparency through the opaque screen to the printed content underlying said screen to provide a virtual window to the printed content underlying said screen;
- viii. interpret user interactions with the displayed hyperlink via said touch-sensitive display screen;
- ix. retrieve hyperlinked information corresponding to said hyperlink;
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- x. display said hyperlinked information on said screen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.