An apparatus for Internet browsing and other Internet-interactive activities, comprises: a camera to focus on to 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 for processing an image of the printed hypertext document captured by the camera and of a finger or other pointing implement within the field of view of the camera pointing to a region of the printed hypertext document and configured to determine 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 to then fetch from the Internet or a local cache of web pages data that comprises the linked web page or linked multimedia data file referenced in the printed hypertext document; and a receiver for receiving and displaying or playing the fetched data.
申请公布号
WO03038668(A2)
申请公布日期
2003.05.08
申请号
WO2002GB04883
申请日期
2002.10.30
申请人
HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY;FROHLICH, DAVID, MARK;GROSVENOR, DAVID, ARTHUR