Augmented Reading Systems

摘要

An augmented reading system distributes electronic content related to paper documents. A user reading a paper document captures an image of a page of the paper document via a computing device communicatively coupled to the augmented reading system. The augmented reading system receives the image and correlates the image to electronic documents to identify the paper document. The augmented reading system may perform an image-based comparison or a character-based comparison to correlate the image with electronic documents. Additional electronic content related to the identified document is retrieved and delivered to the computing device of the user. Accordingly, the augmented reading system provides a bridge between paper documents and digital content and services.

主权项

1. A method for distributing electronic content related to paper documents, the method comprising:
receiving at a server, an image of at least a portion of a page of a paper document, the image captured by a device of a user reading the paper document, the device communicatively coupled to the server; correlating the image with a plurality of electronic documents to identify the page and the printed document, each electronic document comprising markup language page elements that collectively reconstruct the electronic document with page fidelity to a corresponding paper document; retrieving additional electronic content related to the identified document; and sending the additional electronic content to a connected device of the user for display to the user.