Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080219736 | On-Demand Printing of Coding Patterns - A technique is provided to enable reproduction of a high-precision code symbol, which comprises a mark with a given location with respect to a reference point, using a comparatively low-resolution printing device which is arranged to apply dots of marking material in a resolution grid on a substrate. The resolution gris is defined by the dot resolution of the printing device and is composed as a two-dimensional array of dot-receiving cells. To enable the reproduction, the printing device is provided with data that represents the code symbol. Further, the printing device is controlled, based on the data, to reproduce the code symbol by arranging the reference point of the code symbol inside one of the dot-receiving cells and by applying at least one dot of marking material on the substrate. | 09-11-2008 |
20080296074 | Data Management in an Electric Pen - In an information management system for handling digital position data recorded by an electronic pen, the pen is designed to operate essentially independently of other system components. The pen is controlled to incorporate the position data into a data file object suitable for storage in a file system, and to expose the file object to an external data handler. The data file object may then be transported in the system from the external data handler in a sequential chain of transfers, with each transfer being independent of other transfers. The pen may be controlled to convert recordings of a first code on a product to one or more absolute positions in a coordinate system, to convert recordings of a second code to data indicative of a functional layout of the product, the data defining one or more functional areas in the coordinate system, and to map the absolute position(s) against the data to identify if the absolute position(s) falls within the functional area(s). Thus, the pen may be dynamically provided with a description of all or parts of the functional layout of a product, thereby reducing the need of the pen to pre-store such descriptions for all products. Encryption or usage may also be controlled based on data encoded by the second code. | 12-04-2008 |
20090019360 | Electronic representations of position-coded products in digital pen systems - Disclosed methods, computer-readable media, and systems relate to position-coded products and processing data from such products. In one implementation, a computer-readable storage medium stores a program for a computer to perform a method for creating an electronic representation of a position-coded product. The method may access an electronic document file with a set of document pages and map the document pages, copy for copy, within a selected number of copies, to pattern pages according to an ordering of the pattern pages. | 01-15-2009 |
20090127006 | Information Management in an Electronic Pen Arrangement - An electronic pen ( | 05-21-2009 |
20090204821 | DATA PROTECTION MECHANISM - A control system in a device allows for installation of application packages to impart different position data processing abilities to the device. The position data may be generated by an electronic pen, and the control system may be arranged in such a pen. Each application package comprises a license specification and an application program. The application program is configured to access the position data and device functions via the control system. The license specification provides for digital rights management and data protection. For example, the license specification may be used by the control system to verify an application program for installation in the device. Further, the license specification may cause the control system to selectively allow the application program to access a specific device function only if it is listed in the license specification. | 08-13-2009 |
20100073330 | Methods and Devices Relating To Transfer of Non-Pen Stroke Data - Non-pen stroke data, e.g. barcode data or keyboard data, can be transferred through a transfer system which is formatted specifically for the transfer of pen stroke data, by coding the non-pen stroke data as pen stroke data. The non-pen stroke data may particularly be coded as pen strokes in a position area which is not used for the transfer of ordinary pen strokes, e.g. a margin area. | 03-25-2010 |
20100134848 | PRINTING OF A POSITION-CODING PATTERN - The present invention relates to a method in a computer for creating an electronic document to be printed, said document comprising a page description representing a layout of the document, said method comprising: retrieving a license from a database, said license defining a position-coding pattern, which is capable of encoding positions on a product when printed, selecting at least a portion of the position-coding pattern in the retrieved license to be associated with the page description, forming a sublicense from said license, said sublicense comprising a definition of the selected at least portion of the position-coding pattern, an indication of an origin of the sublicense to enable assuring that the sublicense stems from a trusted actor, and a data record allowing verification of integrity of the sublicense to enable assuring that the sublicense has not been tampered with, and associating said sublicense with said page description. The invention also relates to a method for verifying a sublicense to a portion of the position-coding pattern. | 06-03-2010 |
20100321708 | PRINTING OF CODING PATTERNS - A method is designed for printing on regular digital printers of a coding pattern consisting of code symbols. In the method, a character-based representation of the coding pattern is obtained, wherein the code symbols are represented by characters according to a character definition set. A definition identifier is generated to identify the character definition set. The definition identifier is specific to the morphology of the coding pattern or to the printing job. Finally, a print module is caused to print the coding pattern based on the character-based representation, the character definition set and the definition identifier. | 12-23-2010 |