Interactive paper publisher
a technology of interactive paper and publisher, applied in the direction of digital output to print units, instruments, marketing, etc., can solve the problems of brightness and contrast problems of crts and lcds, inferior paper screens on computers,
Inactive Publication Date: 2004-07-15
SILVERBROOK RES PTY LTD
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"The present invention provides a method and system for tracking user interaction with an input element of a printed publication using a sensing device and a computer system. The printed publication has human-readable information and machine-readable coded data, and the sensing device senses the coded data and generates indicating data that is indicative of its position relative to the printed publication. The computer system receives the indicating data and identifies the user's selection of the input element using the sensing device. The technical effect of the invention is to provide a more efficient and effective way of tracking user interaction with printed publications."
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Computer screens are inferior to paper.
Both CRTs and LCDs have brightness and contrast problems, particularly when ambient light is strong, while ink on paper, being reflective rather than emissive, is both bright and sharp in ambient light.
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[0089] Note: Memjet.TM. is a trade mark of Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd, Australia.
[0090] In the preferred embodiment, the invention is configured to work with the netpage networked computer system, a detailed overview of which follows. It will be appreciated that not every implementation will necessarily embody all or even most of the specific details and extensions discussed below in relation to the basic system. However, the system is described in its most complete form to reduce the need for external reference when attempting to understand the context in which the preferred embodiments and aspects of the present invention operate.
[0091] In brief summary, the preferred form of the netpage system employs a computer interface in the form of a mapped surface, that is, a physical surface which contains references to a map of the surface maintained in a computer system. The map references can be queried by an appropriate sensing device. Depending upon the specific implementation, the ...
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An on-demand computer based system is provided for allowing a user to obtain interactive printed information from a remote source such as an on-line publication. The system includes a printer module that is provided to the user for interfacing the user with the publication. The module is responsive to the user requesting the publication for generating a first printed page that displays to the user the publication, where that includes first information provided by the publisher and advertising that is derived from an advertiser. The module includes an identifier means for applying an identifier to the first page such that designation of the identifier by the user results in the module generating a second printed page that displays to the user further advertising. In some embodiments, use is made of an account server that is responsive to the module for determining a payment to be made by the advertiser to the publisher.
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[0001] THIS IS A DIVISIONAL APPLICATION OF Ser. No. 09 / 575,193 FILE MAY 23, 2000[0002] The present invention relates to generally to systems, apparatus, devices and methods for interacting with computers and in particular to a system and method for providing to a user printed information.[0003] The invention has been developed primarily to allow a large number of distributed users to interact with networked information via printed matter and optical sensors, thereby to obtain interactive printed matter on demand via high-speed networked color printers. Although the invention will largely be described herein with reference to this use, it will be appreciated that the invention is not limited to use in this field.CO-PENDING APPLICATIONS[0004] Various methods, systems and apparatus relating to the present invention are disclosed in the following co-pending applications filed by the applicant or assignee of the present invention on 23 May 2000:1 09 / 575,197 09 / 575,195 09 / 575,159 09 / 575,1...
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IPC IPC(8): G06FB41J29/38G06F3/12G06Q30/02H04N1/00
CPCG06Q30/02G06Q30/0283G06Q30/0273G06Q30/0207G06F3/14
Inventor SILVERBROOK, KIALAPSTUN, PAUL
Owner SILVERBROOK RES PTY LTD