Capturing video of an image with embedded code to access content

A method for communicating content, the method comprising:

• capturing a live video of an image and an environment surrounding the image, the image having an embedded cryptographic representation of at least one character of a code, the code corresponding to a unit of content, the embedded cryptographic representation of the at least one character identifying an orientation of the image, wherein each cryptographic representation of each character of the code comprises a group of a plurality of regularly spaced mark locations, the orientation of the image determined by determining a first distance between mark locations in a first group of regularly spaced mark locations, and determining a second distance between mark locations in a second group of regularly spaced mark locations, and comparing the first distance with the second distance;
• decoding the embedded cryptographic representation of the code;
• retrieving the unit of content corresponding to the code from a storage location;
• and
• displaying the unit of content on at least one of the live video of the image and the image environment as a function of the determined orientation of the image.

A system for communicating content, the system comprising:

• a computing device;
• a display device in communication with the computing device;
• a video camera in communication with the computing device, the computing device comprising
• a capturing module that captures a live video of an image using the video camera and an environment surrounding the image using the video camera, the image having an embedded cryptographic representation of at least one character of a code, the code corresponding to a unit of content the embedded cryptographic representation of the at least one character identifying an orientation of the image, wherein each cryptographic representation of each character of the code comprises a group of a plurality of regularly spaced mark locations, the orientation of the image determined by determining a first distance between mark locations in a first group of regularly spaced mark locations, and determining a second distance between mark locations in a second group of regularly spaced mark locations, and comparing the first distance with the second distance;
• a decoding module that decodes the embedded cryptographic representation of the code;
• a content retrieval module that retrieves the unit of content corresponding to the code from a storage location;
• and
• a display module that displays, on the display device, the unit of content on at least one of the live video of the image and the image environment as a function of the determined orientation of the image.