Patent ID: 7015900
Filing Date: 2006-03-21
Classification: B41J,B42C,B42P,B65H,G06F,G06K,H04L,H04N,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of enabling user interaction with computer software via: an interface surface containing information relating to a drawing field and to the computer software and having disposed therein or thereon coded data indicative of an identity of the interface surface and of a plurality of reference points of the interface surface; a sensing device which, when placed in an operative position relative to the interface surface, senses at least some of the coded data and, using the sensed coded data: a computer system running the computer software; the method including the steps of, in the computer system: (a) receiving the indicating data from the sensing device; (b) receiving at least one of the movement data and the position data from the sensing device; (c) identifying the drawing field from the indicating data and from at least one of the movement data and the position data; and (d) operating the computer software at least partly in reliance on at least one of the movement data and the position data, and in accordance with instructions associated with the drawing field, wherein the sensing device is further adapted to store a sensing device identifier which is adapted to distinguish the sensing device from other sensing devices of the same type.