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US6522770B1
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Management of documents and other objects using optical devices
Assignee: Digimarc Corp
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Filing: 2000-08-01
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Granted: 2003-02-18
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Expires: 2020-08-01
Abstract
Abstract By printing documents and other objects with machine readable indicia, such as steganographic digital watermarks or barcodes, a great variety of document management functions can be enabled. The indicia can be added as part of the printing process (after document data has been output by an originating application program), such as by printer driver software, by a Postscript engine in a printer, etc. The indicia can encode data about the document, or can encode an identifier that references a database record containing such data. By showing the printed document to a computer device with a suitable optical input device (e.g., a webcam), an electronic version of the document can be recalled for editing, or other responsive action can be taken.
Inventors
- 👤 Phillip Andrew Seder
- 👤 J. Scott Carr
- 👤 Burt W. Perry
- 👤 Stanley E. Graham
- 👤 Geoffrey B. Rhoads
Bibliographic Details
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Jurisdiction
US
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google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-09 17:18
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06Q; G06Q30/00; G06Q30/02; G06Q10/00; G06Q10/10; G07; G07F; G07F17/00; G07F17/26
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 6
Claim 1
Independent Claim
91 words
A method of electronic management of paper documents, comprising: presenting a paper sheet to an optical sensor, the paper sheet having an optically-detectable digital watermark thereon, said digital watermark being machine-readable, but not generally intelligible to human viewers thereof, the optical sensor producing scan data; decoding the scan data to produce binary data corresponding to said digital watermark; accessing a data store using at least a portion of said binary data; and obtaining from said data store an electronic address at which an electronic version of said paper sheet is stored.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
91 words
A method of electronic management of paper documents, comprising: presenting a paper sheet to an optical sensor, the paper sheet having an optically-detectable digital watermark thereon, said digital watermark being machine-readable, but not generally intelligible to human viewers thereof, the optical sensor producing scan data; decoding the scan data to produce binary data corresponding to said digital watermark; accessing a data store using at least a portion of said binary data; and obtaining from said data store an electronic address at which an electronic version of said paper sheet is stored.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
35 words
The method of claim 1 that further includes: determining an application program suitable for opening said electronic version; opening said electronic version with said application program; and displaying said electronic version on a computer screen.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
14 words
The method of claim 1 wherein the digital watermark is formed by ink-jet printing.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
23 words
The method of claim 1 wherein the electronic address was stored in said data store at the time said paper sheet was printed.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
17 words
The method of claim 1 wherein the optical sensor comprises an array of plural image photosensor elements.
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