Palm office assistants

a technology of optical scanners and assistants, applied in the field of portable optical scanners, can solve the problems of tedious and laborious input, inability to capture data into a portable computing device with limited user interfaces, and inability to capture data in real time,

Inactive Publication Date: 2002-09-19
HOU DARWIN
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Capturing the data into a portable computing device with limited user interfaces has always been a challenge.
Typically, it takes minutes to input relevant information from a business card into such device.
Although such input is tedious and labor...

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is presented largely in terms of procedures, steps, logic blocks, processing, and other symbolic representations that directly or indirectly resemble the operations of data processing devices coupled to networks. These process descriptions and representations are typically used by those skilled in the art to most effectively convey the substance of their work to others skilled in the art. Reference herein to "one embodiment" or "an embodiment" means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment can be included in at least one embodiment of the invention. The appearances of the phrase "in one embodiment" in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment, nor are separate or alternative embodiments mutually exclusive of other embodiments. Further, the order of blocks in process flowcharts or diagrams representing one or more embodiments of the invention do not inherently indicate any pa...

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Abstract

An apparatus capable of scanning in documents is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a linear scanner is integrated with a portable computing device and exposed to a scanning document. An image is generated when there is a relative motion between the linear scanner and the scanning document. Texts in the image are reproduced by an OCR engine in the apparatus and can be displayed on a display screen of the portable computing device. The reproduced texts can be then filled in appropriate fields on records maintained in the device or transported to another device.

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[0001] 1. Field of the Invention[0002] The present invention relates to portable optical scanners, and more particularly to a method and system for capturing alphanumeric characters, symbols or biometric tokens (i.e., fingerprints) with low cost point optical scanners integrated with portable computing devices such as palm sized computing devices, personal digital assistants (PDA's), smart phones and cellular phones with digital network connectivity (i.e., WAP phones).[0003] 2. Description of the Related Art[0004] Personal Data Interchange (PDI) occurs every time two or more individuals communicate, in either a business or personal context. Such interchanges frequently include the exchange of information containing alphanumeric characters and symbols, such as business cards, purchase receipts, tickets, contracts, and other types of documents. To manage the amount of information gathered via PDI many individuals use portable hand-held computing devices such as handheld computers, per...

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IPC IPC(8): G06F1/16G06T1/00G06K9/22H04N1/107
CPCG06F1/1626G06F1/1696G06K9/228G06V30/142
Inventor HOU, DARWIN
Owner HOU DARWIN
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