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| 20090077658 | ARCHIVE OF TEXT CAPTURES FROM RENDERED DOCUMENTS - A facility for storing a text capture data structure for a particular user is described. The data structure comprises a number of entries. Each entry corresponds to a text capture operation performed by the user from a rendered document. Each entry contains information specifying the text captured in the text capture operation. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20100092095 | DATA GATHERING IN DIGITAL AND RENDERED DOCUMENT ENVIRONMENTS - A system for determining viewership of articles or ads in printed publications and using the determined viewership to determine author compensation, ad rates, or other historical or demographic related information is described. The system receives text capture information of portions of a number of rendered documents that is generated by capture devices operated by a number of users. The system searches digital content using the received capture information and determines a readership value for components of the rendered document based upon the search. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20110025842 | Automatically capturing information, such as capturing information using a document-aware device - A system and method for automatically changing the operation of a mobile device in response to a presence of information is described. In some examples, the system determines an information capture device is proximate to text, automatically changes operation of the capture device to a certain mode, captures the text, and performs an action associated with the captured text. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110035656 | Identifying a document by performing spectral analysis on the contents of the document - A system and method for identifying a document based on a spectral analysis of the text of the document is described. In some examples, the system generates a document identifier for a rendered document based on assigning values to words in the rendered document, such as values associated with the frequency of use of the word by the rendered document, the absolute or relative position of the word in the rendered document, and so on. The system may use the document identifier to generate a group of documents having similar document identifiers, and choose a likely match from the group of documents based on predictive analysis. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110035662 | Interacting with rendered documents using a multi-function mobile device, such as a mobile phone - A system and method for facilitating interactions between multi-function devices and rendered documents is described. In some examples, the systems overlays an image of a rendered document with display elements associated with actions to perform for the rendered document. In some examples, the system presents a virtual real-time image in place of a real-time of a document or other display of information. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110043652 | AUTOMATICALLY PROVIDING CONTENT ASSOCIATED WITH CAPTURED INFORMATION, SUCH AS INFORMATION CAPTURED IN REAL-TIME - A system and method for automatically providing content associated with captured information is described. In some examples, the system receives input by a user, and automatically provides content or links to content associated with the input. In some examples, the system receives input via text entry or by capturing text from a rendered document, such as a printed document, an object, an audio stream, and so on. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110096174 | ACCESSING RESOURCES BASED ON CAPTURING INFORMATION FROM A RENDERED DOCUMENT - A system and method for authorizing access to computing resources, access to services, software and so on, based on capturing information associated with a request is described. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110142371 | OPTICAL SCANNERS, SUCH AS HAND-HELD OPTICAL SCANNERS - A hand-held optical scanner is described. The hand-held optical scanner has an image sensor, as well as a scan window through which image light is directed toward the image sensor. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145068 | ASSOCIATING RENDERED ADVERTISEMENTS WITH DIGITAL CONTENT - A system and method for associating rendered advertisements with digital content is described. In some examples, the system receives an image of a rendered advertisement, information associated with digital content, and information associating the rendered advertisement with the digital content via a web portal. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110153653 | IMAGE SEARCH USING TEXT-BASED ELEMENTS WITHIN THE CONTENTS OF IMAGES - A mobile device searches for electronic content. The mobile device captures an image from a rendered document, and searches for an electronic version of the image using characteristics of the image and using text within the contents of the image. The mobile device receives a result for the search based upon the image characteristics and the text within the context of the image. | 06-23-2011 |
