Synchronizing physical and electronic copies of media using electronic bookmarks

摘要

Described herein are techniques for synchronizing reading locations of electronic copies of a print medium with page numbers associated with physical copies of the print medium. A page number is derived from an image of a page of a physical copy of the print medium, and the image is captured by an electronic bookmark or electronic device in proximity to the physical copy of the print medium. The page number or image is provided to a synchronization service which synchronizes the page number with one or more reading locations or other page numbers.

主权项

1. An electronic bookmark comprising:
a body having a bookmark form factor designed to fit between pages of a closed physical copy of a print medium, the body including:
a processor and memory, the memory storing instructions that when executed by the processor program the processor to perform operations comprising:
determining one or more indicia from an image of at least a portion of a page of the physical copy of the print medium;determining a match between one or more indicia for an electronic copy of the print medium and the one or more indicia from the image of the at least a portion of the page; andspecifying page information comprising a physical page number corresponding to the image;a network interface communicatively coupled to the processor; an imaging unit communicatively coupled to the processor and configured to capture the image of the at least a portion of the page of the physical copy of the print medium; and a synchronization module configured to be operated by the processor to receive the image from the imaging unit and to provide the image to a synchronization server via the network interface for synchronization between one or more reading locations associated with the image of the physical copy of the print medium and one or more reading locations of one or more electronic copies of the print medium.