Patent ID: 8001028

Claim:
A method of interacting with a printed substrate, the method comprising the steps of: interacting with the printed substrate using an optically imaging pen having a nib, said printed substrate including human-readable content and a plurality of contiguous tags, each tag having a plurality of target elements, each tag containing coded data indicative of a substrate identity and of a tag location on the substrate; imaging at least one tag to provide image data; identifying target elements in the image data and inferring a perspective transform using perspective distortion of the target elements due to a tilt of the pen; acquiring and decoding the coded data contained in the imaged tag, the decoded coded data identifying the substrate identity and the tag location on the substrate; calculating a nib position using the tag location, the perspective transform and a known geometry of pen optics, said nib position being different than the tag location; and communicating digital ink to a computer system, said digital ink identifying the nib position and the substrate identity such that the computer system can interpret the digital ink and perform an action in response to the interaction with the printed substrate.