Patent ID: 8274694
Filing Date: 2012-09-25
Classification: B41J,G06F,G06Q,H04M,H04N,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method for accessing content from a computer network via a handheld device equipped with mobile telephony, an opaque touch-sensitive display screen and an optical image sensor, said method comprising the steps of: (a) interacting with a substrate having printed content containing a printed hyperlink and capturing an image of at least part of the substrate using the optical image sensor; (b) forming on the device, a request based on the captured image; (c) transmitting, from the device via an associated mobile phone network, the request to a first server on the computer network, said computer network being interoperable with the mobile phone network; (d) receiving content associated with the request in the device, said content including a hyperlink corresponding to the printed hyperlink; (e) displaying, on the opaque touch-sensitive display screen, display information based on said received content, said display information including a displayed hyperlink corresponding to the printed hyperlink, wherein, from a user's perspective, the opaque display screen has real-time virtual transparency through the opaque screen to the printed content underlying said screen to provide a virtual window to the printed content underlying said screen; (f) interacting with the displayed hyperlink via said touch-sensitive display screen; (g) retrieving hyperlinked information corresponding to said hyperlink; and (h) displaying said hyperlinked information on said screen.