Patent Document ID: 8005831
Application ID: 11461272

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for providing a mixed media environment for interacting with documents of a first media type and a second media type, the method comprising: acquiring a representation of a portion of a printed document comprising geographical location information by receiving a captured image of the portion of the printed document via a capture device; indexing the acquired representation of the portion of the printed document for identification of a corresponding mixed media reality document, wherein the corresponding mixed media reality document comprising a matching electronic representation of the printed document, wherein indexing the acquired representation includes specifying an x-y location of at least one of a character, a word and an image from the acquired representation within the printed document; parsing the representation of the portion of the printed document to identify a first geographic location from the geographical location information; identifying a second geographic location of the capture device; and performing an action specified by the mixed media reality document based on the first and second geographic locations, wherein specifying the x-y location of the acquired representation includes one selected from the group of: specifying x-y locations of characters of a printed document, specifying x-y locations of words of the printed document, specifying x-y locations of an image or a portion of an image in a printed document, performing an OCR operation and specifying x-y locations of characters or words, and performing feature extraction and specifying x-y locations of characters or words.

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Claim 11:
11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the geographical information is in a location selected from the content of the portion of the printed document, second media associated with the portion of the printed document via the mixed media reality document, and metadata associated with the portion of the printed document.