Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Abigail Jane Sellen

Colin S I'Anson

Guy De Warrenne Bruce Adams

Richard Anthony Lawrence

Kenton Paul Anthony O'Hara

Barry Allen Thomas Brown

Andrew Dudley Morgan

John Deryk Waters

James Thomas Edward McDonnell

Fraser John Dickin

Weng Wah Loh

Rachel Lucy Murphy

Christopher Gwyn Romans

Stuart Phillip Stenton

A representational object contains a visual representation of a character and a memory tag comprising a digital memory adapted to be read from when inductively powered. The digital memory contains digital content relating to the character represented visually on the representational object. At least a part of the digital content relates to function of the character in a game carried out by a gaming application and comprises executable code for execution in connection with operation of the gaming application.

Physical representational objects with digital memory and methods of manufacture and use thereof

A published document comprises a printed document and at least one memory attached to the printed document, wherein said at least one memory comprises an electrical circuit without an integral power source but may be powered wirelessly so that it may transmit information wirelessly, wherein at least a portion of the information stored in the published document for display to the user is provided in said at least one memory. A method of viewing information in such a published document comprises viewing information printed in the printed document, powering the memory circuit with a reader device to transmit information stored in the memory circuit to the reader device wirelessly, and displaying the information stored in the memory circuit by means of the reader device for viewing by the user. An appropriate reader device and method for publishing the document are described.

Physical multimedia documents, and methods and apparatus for publishing and reading them

An auxiliary screen unit is provided in conjunction with a desktop personal computer, for use in connection with editing a reading operations. The auxiliary screen unit has a touch-sensitive screen and stylus by means of which a user may operate a graphical user interface to select, highlight or otherwise edit text; edits may be performed on text displayed on the computer screen in the normal way using a mouse and a graphical user interface. The auxiliary screen unit and the computer are connected directly to each other so that text selected on one screen may be imported directly onto the other screen. Such an apparatus thus provides similar functional capability to that of paper, which is still the medium of choice for formulating edits.

Text processing system

A shopping assistance method and service system is provided in which a shopper captures information about an item of interest () and sends it over a mobile radio infrastructure () to a service system (). At the service system, the information is processed to identify at least the type of item of interest. A determination is also made of a location associated with the information, this location will generally be that of the store () where the shopper captured the information, but could also be the shopper's home location. The service system next carries out a specific task () relating to the identified item (), such as obtaining comparative prices, and then provides a report back to the shopper, the contents and/or organisation of the report taking account of the location previously determined as being associated with the information.

Shopping assistance service

An image capture apparatus has a combined electronic camera and swipe scanner. The electronic camera has an optical system and detector array for remote capturing of a first image. The swipe scanner has an optical system and detector array for swipe capturing of a second image. The image capture apparatus further has a data storage arranged to store the first image and the second image in association with each other. The electronic camera may be a moderate resolution color camera, and the swipe scanner may have a grey-scale detector array capable of scanning an object at a higher resolution than the camera. A display is provided so that both images can be viewed separately in association with each other, or combined into a combination image, which has color information from the camera to colorize higher resolution pixels from the scanner.

Hand-held image capture apparatus with scanning arrangement

An electronic record storage system has plural stored changeable records including its content (e.g., a spreadsheet). Each record has a record identifier (e.g., its filename) which is not normally changed when the record content is changed. To facilitate synchronization of the stored and printed records, a version identifier (e.g., a timestamp) is changed when the content of that record is changed. The content of a such record includes marking from which the respective record identifier and version identifier are derived. A user scans the print marking to produce marking image data. A identifier and identifier are derived from the marking image data. The record identifier accesses the current record and obtains the currently-stored version identifier. The scan-derived version identifier is compared with the currently-stored version identifier. Version identifier timestamps need not be the record timestamp but can indicate printing time.

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Newbury, United Kingdom

Abigail Jane Sellen