Patent ID: 7161581

Claim:
An annotating product used with an information system and with a plurality of objects, the product comprising: an imager, the imager having a field of view, the field of view extending along each of three orthogonal axes, a plurality of coded data sources, several coded data sources from the plurality of coded data sources being spatially separated in the field of view, light from the several coded data sources being together detected by the imager; a first object from the several objects; a first coded data source from the several coded data sources, light from the first coded data source representing the first object; a first indicate signal, the first indicate signal being caused when light from the first coded data source is caused to be selected at the imager, the first indicate signal representing the first object, the first indicate signal being output by the imager, the first indicate signal being input to the information system; first annotate data associated with the first object, the first annotate data being available to the information system; a first annotate signal output by the information system, the first annotate signal being caused by the first indicate signal, the first annotate signal having a first personal component, the first personal component representing first annotate data relevant specifically to a first person, the first annotate signal representing the first annotate data; and a display, the display receiving the first annotate signal and the display being caused by the first annotate signal to output the first annotate data.