Patent Document ID: 7830537
Application ID: 11315380

Base Claim:
1. A method of controlling copying of a document, the method comprising: optically capturing contents of the document to produce a captured document; performing optical object recognition on the captured document in an attempt to find a recognized object of the captured document; providing a first prompt if said optical object recognition does not recognize any object, said first prompt inquiring whether the document is copyrighted; providing a second prompt if said optical object recognition results in finding said recognized object, said second prompt warning that the document is subject to limitations concerning copying; comparing the recognized object to objects in an object database if said optical object recognition results in finding said recognized object, wherein each of the objects of said object database is associated with at least one output rule from an output rule database comprising at least three output rules including an authorization rule, a block rule, and a notification rule; determining a content output for the recognized object based on said at least one output rule associated with the recognized object; and providing the content output based on said at least one output rule.

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Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 , the method further comprising: providing a third prompt following the first prompt inquiring whether the document is being copied for fair use, and providing a fourth prompt inquiring whether the user is aware of a potential violation of rules, laws or guidelines against copying the document.