Patent ID: 7610203

Claim:
A system for recoding and playing an audio signal provided on a photograph, the system including: a camera comprising i) a sensing system for sensing an image and recording an audio signal; and ii) a processor for generating coded data at least partially indicative of the audio signal, and for controlling a printing device to print a photograph including the image and the coded data; and a reader comprising i) a scanner for scanning the coded data; ii) a processor for decoding the coded data to determine the audio signal; and iii) an output for playback of the audio signal, wherein the processor causes the coded data to be printed in the same area as the image, the coded data includes a beginning target boundary printed at a start of the coded data in a feed direction of the photograph through the reader, and an end target boundary printed at an end of the coded data in the feed direction, the beginning and end target boundaries delimiting the spatial location of the coded data therebetween in the feed direction, and the processor controls the printing device to print the beginning and end target boundaries spatially displaced from the rest of the coded data in the feed direction.