Patent ID: 9697182
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04N

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method of navigating a hard copy of a web page comprising: A) capturing an image of a physically displayed web page hard copy using a mobile hand held image capturing device including a camera, a display and a user interface, an alignment of the mobile hand held image capturing device and the captured image horizontally and/or vertically skewed relative to a displayed angle of view associated with the physically displayed web page, and the captured image including one or more text strings which provide dormant links to other web pages; B) performing OCR (optical character recognition) on the captured image to produce a text searchable version of the captured image; C) searching a database for an electronic copy of a web page matching the web page hardcopy by searching the database for one or more portions of text associated with the text searchable version of the captured image, the database including text searchable versions of a plurality of electronic copies of web pages retrieved from one or more web servers including the electronic a copy of the web page hard copy, each text searchable version of the plurality of electronic copies of web pages including control information which links one or more text strings contained in the plurality of electronic copies of web pages to other linked copies of web pages; D) identifying the matching electronic copy of the web page hard copy; E) retrieving the control information associated with the captured web page hard copy from the matching electronic copy of the web page hard copy; and F) generating and displaying on the mobile handheld image capturing device display a processed image of the matching electronic copy of the web page hard copy horizontally and vertically aligned to the display substantially equivalent to the captured image alignment horizontally and/or vertically skewed relative to the displayed angle of view associated with the physically displayed web page, the processed image including the retrieved control information associated with the matching electronic copy of the web page hard copy and the processed image including a modified appearance of the one or more text strings associated with the web page hard copy which are linked to one or more other electronic copies of web pages retrieved from the one or more web servers, the modified appearance indicating the one or more text strings are active and the modified appearance of the text strings at substantially the same angle as the captured image horizontally and/or vertically skewed relative to the displayed angle of view associated with the physically displayed web page.