| 摘要 |
Name, address, telephone and other personal or company information printed on business stationery, advertisements and in telephone directories is also printed in a machine readable form such as a bar code. A protocol is used to determine how the machine readable data is compressed or encoded such that it can be read and decoded 32, 34 according to a standard form to be entered automatically into an electronic personal organiser. The electronic personal organiser (10, Fig 1) may be in the form of a small pocket-sized device, mobile telephone, or an applications software package loaded onto a lap-top or other computer system and includes a database 42 for storing the name, address, telephone and other information as directory data entries; means 30 for storing the directory data into the database; an opto-electronic data input device 20 adapted to read the printed data pattern in a machine-readable, predetermined, structured form; and optionally a telephone tone dialler 60 and auxiliary input/output facility 50. |
