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System for capturing and retrieving audio data and corresponding hand-written notes
Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp
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Filing: 1997-03-20
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Granted: 1999-10-19
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Expires: 2017-03-20
Abstract
Abstract An electronic notebook assigns properties to digital ink of note marks and keywords to digital pages. The properties indicate the type of note mark and the keywords indicate general content of the note marks on a digital page. The notebook also synchronizes audio data with the note marks and permits audio highlighting. The electronic notebook provides an updatable database of note marks and audio that is capable of being searched based on the properties, keywords, and audio highlights.
Inventors
- 👤 Lynn D. Wilcox
- 👤 William N. Schilit
- 👤 Nitin Sawhney
- 👤 Joseph W. Sullivan
- 👤 Timothy W. Bickmore
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-09 18:05
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06F; G06F3/00; G06F3/01; G06F3/048; G06F3/0487; G06F3/0488; G06F3/04883; G11; G11B; G11B27/00; G11B27/10; G11B27/11; G11B27/19; G11B27/28; G11B27/34
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 24
Claim 1
Independent Claim
82 words
A digital note-taking system, comprising: a pen-based interactive display adapted to receive pen-based input; a processor in communication with the pen-based interactive display and responsive to the pen-based input for generating at least one note mark comprising digital ink for display on the pen-based interactive display, wherein the digital ink comprises at least one user defined property that indicates a category of information expressed by the digital ink; and a storage device in communication with the processor for storing the digital ink.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
82 words
A digital note-taking system, comprising: a pen-based interactive display adapted to receive pen-based input; a processor in communication with the pen-based interactive display and responsive to the pen-based input for generating at least one note mark comprising digital ink for display on the pen-based interactive display, wherein the digital ink comprises at least one user defined property that indicates a category of information expressed by the digital ink; and a storage device in communication with the processor for storing the digital ink.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
27 words
The digital note-taking system of claim 1, wherein the processor assigns at least one note mark to a digital page, wherein the digital page comprises identifying keywords.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
37 words
The digital note-taking system of claim 1, further comprising: an audio input device in communication with the processor and responsive to audio for generating audio data, wherein the processor designates at least one highlighted audio data portion.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
19 words
The digital note-taking system of claim 3, wherein the audio data and the digital ink further comprise time data.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
20 words
The digital note-taking system of claim 3, wherein the storage device stores the at least one highlighted audio data portion.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
34 words
The digital note-taking system of claim 3, wherein the processor is adapted to compress at least one non-highlighted audio portion and wherein the storage device stores the compressed at least one non-highlighted audio portion.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
18 words
The digital note-taking system of claim 3, wherein the pen-based interactive display comprises an audio data time line.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
22 words
The digital note-taking system of claim 7, wherein the audio data time line indicates the at least one highlighted audio data portion.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
24 words
The digital note-taking system of claim 3, wherein the at least one note mark corresponds to the at least one highlighted audio data portion.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
38 words
The digital note-taking system of claim 9, wherein the correspondence of the at least one note mark to the at least one highlighted audio data portion is indicated to the user on the display with thicker line width.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
24 words
The digital note-taking system of claim 1, wherein the at least one property is indicated to the user on the display with a color.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
26 words
The digital note-taking system of claim 1, wherein the at least one property is one of the set comprising: action item, name, calendar item and URL.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
18 words
The digital note-taking system of claim 2, wherein the digital page comprises at least one property specifying region.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
18 words
The digital note-taking system of claim 3, further comprising an audio output device in communication with the processor.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
26 words
The digital note-taking system of claim 14, wherein the processor modifies the at least one highlighted audio data portion for output through the audio output device.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
23 words
The digital note-taking system of claim 3, wherein the processor designates the at least one highlighted audio data portion based upon user input.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
29 words
The digital note-taking system of claim 3, wherein the processor designates the at least one highlighted audio data portion by processing the audio data with a speaker segmentation algorithm.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
46 words
The digital note-taking system of claim 1, wherein the processor is responsive to a user inputted query that identifies a property for searching the storage device and for generating a digital page comprising at least one note mark having digital ink that comprises the identified property.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
47 words
The digital note-taking system of claim 2, wherein the processor is responsive to a user inputted query that identifies a keyword for searching the storage device and for generating a digital page comprising at least one note mark from a digital page that comprises the identified keyword.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
14 words
The digital note-taking system of claim 2, wherein the digital page comprises a background.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
26 words
The digital note-taking system of claim 2, wherein the processor is responsive to a pen-based input comprising a horizontal line gesture to generate a digital page.
Claim 23
Dependent Claim
62 words
The digital note-taking system of claim 2, further comprising a browsing window that lists at least one digital page along with the date of creation of the digital page, date of modification of the digital page, at least one icon identifying the property associated with the digital ink on the digital page and at least one keyword associated with the digital page.
Claim 24
Dependent Claim
26 words
The digital note-taking system of claim 2, further comprising a query window for generating a query based on at least one of a keyword and property.
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