Patent ID: 9008432
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: G06K,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A tangible mobile communications device, comprising: a tangible image-capturing element which captures images at the direction of a user of the device; a tangible processor that analyzes an image captured by the image-capturing element to determine whether a predetermined two-dimensional shape with an outline having a curved component is present in the image; that determines based on the outline an alignment of the predetermined two-dimensional shape when the predetermined two-dimensional shape is present in the image; and that reads data within the predetermined two-dimensional shape in accordance with the determined alignment; a tangible communications transmitter that automatically forwards a request for content over a communications network in accordance with the data read within the predetermined two-dimensional shape; and a tangible communications receiver that receives the content over the network and displays the content using the tangible mobile communications device, wherein a grid is imposed within the outline such that presence of information in each of a plurality of components of the grid can be determined.