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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2014
3m Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Diane R. Wolk, Woodbury, MN (US);
Cristin E. Moran, St. Paul, MN (US);
David M. Mahli, Woodbury, MN (US);
Guruprasad Somasundaram, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Richard J. Moore, Maplewood, MN (US);
3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY, St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
Techniques for creating and manipulating software notes representative of physical notes are described. A note management system comprises a sensor configured to capture an image data of a physical note, wherein the note is separated into one or more segments using marks, wherein each of the segments is marked by at least one of the marks. The note management system further comprises a note recognition module coupled to the sensor, the note recognition module configured to receive the captured image data and identify the marks on the note, and a note extraction module configured to determine general boundaries of the one or more segments within the captured image data based on the identified marks and extract content using the general boundaries, the content comprises content pieces, each of the content pieces corresponding to one of the one or more segments of the note.