Source: https://patents.justia.com/patent/9304605
Timestamp: 2019-06-20 17:08:10
Document Index: 82599626

Matched Legal Cases: ['Application No. 09', 'application No. 60', 'application No. 60', 'application No. 60', 'application No. 60', 'application No. 60', 'Application No. 0001239', 'Application No. 0000952', 'Application No. 0000939', 'Application No. 0000541', 'Application No. 9904745', 'Application No. 2', 'Application No. 00817626', 'Application No. 00', 'Application No. 09', 'Application No. 09']

US Patent for General information management system Patent (Patent # 9,304,605 issued April 5, 2016) - Justia Patents Search
Justia Patents Sensing Pressure OnlyUS Patent for General information management system Patent (Patent # 9,304,605)
Dec 15, 2008 - Anoto AB
This is a continuation of Application No. 09/746,506, filed Dec. 22, 2000 now abandoned and claims the benefit of U.S. provisional application No. 60/177,310, filed Jan. 21, 2000; U.S. provisional application No. 60/208,164 filed May 31, 2000; U.S. provisional application No. 60/208,169, filed May 31, 2000; U.S. provisional application No. 60/208,170, filed May 31, 2000; U.S. provisional application No. 60/210,654, filed Jun. 9, 2000, PCT/SE00/1667, filed Aug. 30, 2000; Swedish Application No. 0001239-3, filed Apr. 5, 2000; Swedish Application No. 0000952-2, filed Mar. 21, 2000; Swedish Application No. 0000939-9, filed Mar. 21, 2000; Swedish Application No. 0000541-3, filed Feb. 18, 2000; and Swedish Application No. 9904745-8, filed Dec. 23, 1999, all of which are incorporated herein by reference.
Prior-art technique comprises other systems for obtaining absolute or relative position information when writing on a surface. However, these previously known systems only describe the use of such information in order to create message information and/or character information, that is information belonging to the groups 1) and 2) above. Such prior art includes, for example, optical detection of a position-coding pattern on a base according to U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,051,736, 5,442,147, 5,852,434, 5,652,412 and EP-B-0 615 209. Position information can also, as also described in EP-B-0 615 209, be obtained by means of acceleration sensors, or by means of inductive/capacitive/magnetic sensors. Other alternatives are a base incorporating pressure sensors, as described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,790,105, triangulation of signals (light, sound, infrared radiation, etc.) with the use of a plurality of transmitters/receivers, as described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,012,049, or mechanical detection of movement relative to a surface, as described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,495,646. Position information can also be obtained by combinations of techniques. For example, a system is described in WO 00/31682 with combined optical detection of symbols for the determination of absolute position information at low resolution, and acceleration sensors, for the determination of relative position information at high resolution.
FIG. 4 shows schematically, in a similar way to FIG. 2, an imaginary surface 200 which constitutes or is made up by all the points or positions whose absolute coordinates can be coded by a position-coding pattern. A number of different main regions 201-206 are defined on the imaginary surface 200. The main regions are in general divided into subregions (not shown), which in turn can be divided into further subregions, etc.
1. A digital pen for processing position information associated with a product, the position information being a subset of a predefined position-coding pattern, the digital pen comprising:
a memory storing a template that correlates selected position information with at least one predefined field, the memory further storing an operation associated with the predefined field, wherein the template further includes information that defines a logical layout and size common to a plurality of pages, the logical layout including said at least one predefined field;
a sensor detecting position information from a product; and
a processor determining whether the position information detected by the sensor corresponds to the at least one predefined field, the processor initiating the associated operation when the detected position information corresponds to the predefined field by processing at least a portion of the subset of the predefined position-coding pattern independent of use of an external device.
2. The digital pen of claim 1, wherein the logical layout includes a plurality of predefined fields, and wherein the memory stores a plurality of operations, each operation being associated with at least one of the plurality of predefined fields.
3. The digital pen of claim 2, wherein the memory stores a plurality of templates, and wherein each of the plurality of templates defines a differing logical layout.
4. The digital pen of claim 1, wherein the template correlates selected position information with a plurality of predefined fields, the memory stores operations associated with each of the plurality of predefined fields, and the processor initiates an associated operation when the detected position information corresponds to a selected predefined field.
5. The digital pen of claim 4, wherein the stored operations include a plurality of differing types of operations.
6. The digital pen of claim 1, wherein the memory stores the template in an algorithm-based database.
7. The digital pen of claim 1, wherein the predefined field is a send field, and wherein the operation associated with the send field is an instruction to send the detected position information to an external unit.
8. The digital pen of claim 1, wherein the operation associated with the predefined field is one of an instruction to send the detected position information to a predetermined address, an instruction to perform character recognition on the detected position information, an instruction to directly send the detected position information to an external unit, an instruction to store the detected position information, and an instruction to store the detected position information for a predetermined period of time.
9. A method for processing position information associated with a product, the position information being a subset of a predefined position-coding pattern, the method being executed by a digital pen and comprising:
detecting position information associated with a product using a sensor on the digital pen;
accessing a template that correlates selected position information with at least one predefined field, the template being stored within a memory of the digital pen and including information that defines a logical layout and size common to a plurality of pages, the logical layout including said at least one predefined field;
determining whether the detected position information corresponds to the at least one predefined field of the template; and
initiating at least one operation associated with the at least one predefined field when the detected position information corresponds to the predefined field of the template, wherein the at least one operation is stored in the memory of the digital pen and is initiated by processing at least a portion of the subset of the predefined position-coding pattern independent of use of an external device.
10. The method of claim 9, further comprising selecting the template from a plurality of templates stored in the memory of the digital pen.
11. The method of claim 9, wherein the initiating at least one operation includes initiating a send instruction to send the detected position information to an external unit.
12. The method of claim 9, wherein the initiating at least one operation includes initiating a send instruction to send the detected position information to a predetermined address.
13. The method of claim 9, wherein the initiating at least one operation includes initiating a processing instruction to perform character recognition on the detected position information.
14. The method of claim 9, wherein the initiating at least one operation includes initiating a storing instruction to store the detected position information.
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Patent Publication Number: 20090182527
Inventors: Linus Wiebe (Lund), Christer Fåhraeus (Bjarred), Petter Ericson (Malmo)
International Classification: G06F 3/03 (20060101); G06F 3/0354 (20130101); G06F 17/30 (20060101);