Patent ID: 6970264

Claim:
A relay device for providing communication between a sensing device and a computer system, the relay device including: a first communications module for receiving first indicating data transmitted from the sensing device in a first format, the first indicating data including a first region identity indicative of an identity of a region associated with the first interface; a relay device processor configured to generate second indicating data based on the first indicating data; and a second communications module for transmitting the second indicating data in a second format to the computer system, wherein the sensing device comprises: (a) an image sensor adapted to capture images of at least some of the coded data when the sensing device is placed in an operative position relative to the first interface; and (b) a sensing device processor adapted to: (i) identify at least some of the coded data from one or more of the captured images; (ii) determine an orientation, within the captured images, of at least some of the coded data; (iii) decode at least some of the coded data; and (iv) generate the first indicating data using at least some of the decoded coded data.