Patent ID: 8081341

Claim:
A method of displaying hyperlinked information using a mobile telephone device, said method comprising the steps of: positioning said device over at least part of a substrate, said part of said substrate containing a printed hyperlink embedded in text and coded data identifying a region identity and one or more positions on the substrate; reading at least some of the coded data using an optical sensor; generating interaction data using the read coded data, said interaction data identifying the region identity and a position of the device relative to the substrate; retrieving, using the interaction data, display data corresponding to the part of the substrate overlain by the device; displaying, on an opaque touch-sensitive display screen, display information based on said display data, said display information matching and aligning with the text underlying said opaque display screen, such that the opaque display screen has real-time virtual transparency through the screen to the printed content underlying said screen from a user's perspective to provide a virtual window to the printed content underlying said screen; interacting with the hyperlink embedded in text displayed on said display screen; retrieving hyperlinked information corresponding to said hyperlink; and displaying said hyperlinked information on said screen.