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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2002
David Mark Frohlich, Westbury-on-Trym Bristol, GB;
David Arthur Grosvenor, South Gloucestershire Bristol, GB;
David Mark Frohlich, Westbury-on-Trym Bristol, GB;
David Arthur Grosvenor, South Gloucestershire Bristol, GB;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for Internet browsing and other Internet-interactive activities, comprises: a camera focusing on a printed hypertext document for generating video signals representing an image of the printed hypertext document in electronic form: A processor linked to the camera processes images of the printed hypertext document captured by the camera and a finger or other pointing implement within the camera field of view pointing to a region of the printed hypertext document and determines from the image the identity of a linked web page or a linked multi-media, i.e. audio and/or video sequence, data file referred to on that hypertext document in the region pointed to, and then fetches from the Internet or a local cache of web pages data comprising the linked web page or linked multimedia data file referenced in the printed hypertext document. A receiver receives and displays or plays the fetched data.