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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2014
3m Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Guruprasad Somasundaram, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Cristin E. Moran, St. Paul, MN (US);
David M. Mahli, Woodbury, MN (US);
Diane R. Wolk, Woodbury, MN (US);
Richard J. Moore, Maplewood, MN (US);
Pontus Axelsson, Stockholm, SE;
Michael Rotstein, Stockholm, SE;
Roland Persson, Stockholm, SE;
3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY, St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
In general, the disclosure describes techniques for creating and manipulating software notes representative of physical notes. A computing device includes a processor, an image collection module configured to receive an input image of an environment having a plurality of physical notes, an image processing engine configured to identify the plurality of physical notes in the input image and generate a plurality of digital notes corresponding to the plurality of notes identified in the input image, wherein the plurality of digital notes include information represented by the plurality of notes in the input image, and a graphical user interface configured to display the input image overlaid with the plurality of digital notes in place of the identified plurality of notes on a first portion of the graphical user interface and to display a set of one or more of the digital notes on a second portion of the graphical user interface.