Connecting Printed Documents to Digital Content via Visual Page Recognition
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional methods for enhancing printed documents with digital content often disrupt the reading experience by using interruptive codes or requiring resource-intensive scanning and internet access, limiting their utility and accessibility.
Innovation Solution
A process that connects printed documents to digital content through visual capture and analysis using a unique character near the page number, allowing a digital device to recognize the page and deliver relevant, context-sensitive content without interrupting the printed page or requiring significant processing resources or internet access.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional methods use interruptive codes (bar codes, QR codes) to connect printed documents to digital content, then digital content accessibility is improved, but the printed page integrity and reading experience deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the digital content connection function from the printed page by using a camera to capture the page number, rather than embedding codes directly in the page. This separates the digital interaction mechanism from the printed document, maintaining page integrity while enabling digital content access.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a camera and software application as intermediaries between the printed document and digital content. Instead of direct connection through codes on the page, the camera captures the page number and the software mediates the connection to digital content, preserving the printed page while enabling digital access.
2Measurement precision
If text scanning with sophisticated software is used to provide digital content, then content recognition accuracy is improved, but processing resources and internet accessibility requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential identifying element (page number) from the printed document rather than scanning and processing the entire text. This dramatically reduces processing resources while maintaining sufficient accuracy for connecting to digital content.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of performing complete text scanning and analysis, the patent uses partial action by capturing only the page number. This insufficient-seeming action is actually sufficient for the intended purpose of connecting to digital content, thereby reducing resource consumption.
3Measurement precision
If a unique character is added near the page number for visual capture, then digital device recognition accuracy is improved, but the printed page design complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by adding a unique character only in the specific location near the page number, rather than modifying the entire page design. This localized modification maintains overall design simplicity while providing the necessary recognition feature.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses visual differentiation (analogous to color changes) by making the unique character distinct from surrounding text through styling, allowing easy identification by the camera without requiring complex design elements.
Data Source
AI summary
Aspects described herein relate to a computer device connecting a physical printed document to relevant contextual digital content through a visual capture of one or more sequential ordering systems in the printed document. When the computer device detects when a screen icon is aligned with a printed icon on the printed document, the computer device analyzes visual input from its scanning device to identify both the document and the page/section number being scanned and subsequently delivers relevant, contextual digital content to provide an extended experience of the printed document through supplemental textual, visual, and/or audio content presented on the computer device.