Patent ID: 6037915
Filing Date: 2000-03-14
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
An information reproducing system, comprising:reading means for optically reading an optically readable information code from a recording medium by manual scanning, said optically readable code representing multimedia information including at least image information, and said recording medium including respective regions in which the optically readable information code and a related image associated with the image information are recorded, said related image having at least one of a meaning and a content which is directly recognizable by sight;processing means for processing the optically readable information code read by said reading means to produce processed data; andoutputting means for outputting the processed data produced by said processing means as multimedia information, said outputting means including image displaying means for displaying a display image corresponding to the processed data at a predetermined position between an observer's eyeballs and said recording medium, and said recording medium having a positioning index which is used for determining a display position at which the display image is to be displayed on a surface of the recording medium by the image displaying means,wherein the image displaying means outputs and displays, while the related image and the optically readable information code recorded on said recording medium are guided onto the eyeballs of the observer, the display image in a same field of view as the related image and the optically readable information code when said reading means is operated to manually scan the optically readable information code, and said image displaying means also displays a positioning mark to be matched with the positioning index so as to determine the display position at which the display image is to be displayed on the recording medium.