IP Library Granted Patent US 9,177,199
Granted Patent B2
US 9,177,199 · App. 13/197,348 · Granted Nov 3, 2015

Semantic magazine pages

Inventor: Kurt M. Sanger (Rochester, NY)
Assignee: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
G06K9/00463G06K9/228
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Patent No.
US 9,177,199
App. No.
13/197,348
Granted
Nov 3, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for providing user interaction with a printed page ( 10 ) includes providing artwork ( 20 ) for a first page to be printed; providing a printing model to simulate a first printed page using the artwork; simulating the first page to be printed using the printing model; extracting a first set of features from the first simulated page ( 220 ); and embedding the first set of extracted features in a first URL ( 270 ). The invention includes printing the first page; capturing a digital image of the printed page ( 415 ) with a mobile device ( 400 ); extracting features ( 430 ) from the digital image; generating the URL associated with the digital image using the features extracted from the digital image; and navigating to the generated URL using a web browser ( 470 ).

Claims (67)

1. A method for enabling user interaction with a printed page comprising:

having artwork for a first page to be printed;

providing a printing model to simulate a first printed page using artwork;

simulating the first page to be printed using the printing model to create a virtual proof;

extracting a first set of non-symbolic image features from the virtual proof page;

appending the first set of non-symbolic image features to a pre-determined URL to form a second URL;

printing the first page;

providing a website at the second URL and receiving an access request for the website

photographing the printed page by a user using a mobile device having a camera and a computer, operating a software application;

appending the first set of non-symbolic image features from the photograph to the pre-determined URL to form the second URL; and

accessing the website with the second URL.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein artwork includes graphic elements, images, watermarks, human recognizable features, machine recognizable features, text or any combination.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

embedding a publication specific tag in the pre-determined URL.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising:

saving the second URL in a table.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

providing artwork for a second page to be printed;

providing a printing model to simulate a second printed page using artwork;

simulating the second printed page using the printing model to create a virtual proof;

extracting a second set of non-symbolic image features from the virtual proof page;

appending the second set of non-symbolic image features to the pre-determined URL to form a third URL;

printing the second page; and

providing a new page at the website having the third URL and receiving an access request for the website.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising:

comparing the second set of non-symbolic image features to the first set of non-symbolic image features to determine if they are the same; and

modifying the artwork for the first page to be printed or for the second page to be printed if the sets of non-symbolic image features are determined to be the same.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

extracting non-symbolic image features from the digital image; and

generating the first URL associated with the digital image using the non-symbolic image features.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:

navigating to the second URL using an internet browser.

9. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:

downloading a set of URLs associated with a publication which contains said printed page;

testing the generated second URL associated with the digital image against each URL in the set of URLs to find the closest URL in the set of URLs; and

navigating to the closest URL using an internet browser.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

a camera model; and

applying the camera model to the virtual proof prior to extracting the first set of non-symbolic image features.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein:

a set of camera models are used to generate a set of first sets of non-symbolic image features; and

appending each first set of non-symbolic image features to the pre-determined URL to form a set of second URLs.

12. A method for enabling user interaction for a printed publication comprising:

having artwork for each page to be printed;

providing a printing model to simulate each printed page using artwork;

simulating each printed page using the printing model to create a virtual proof;

extracting a set of non-symbolic image features from each virtual proof;

appending the non-symbolic image features from each simulated page to a pre-determined URL to form a set of URLs;

printing the pages; and

providing a website with the set of URLs and receiving an access request for the website.

13. The method of claim 12 , further comprising:

comparing each set of extracted features with every other set of extracted features to determine if each set of extracted features is unique; and

if any set of extracted features are not unique modify the art work for at least one of the corresponding pages.

14. A method of user interaction with a printed page and website, comprising:

photographing a printed page;

extracting a first set of non-symbolic image features from the photograph;

appending the first set of non-symbolic image features from the photograph to a pre-determined URL to form a new URL; and

accessing a website associated with the new URL.

15. A method for enabling user interaction with a printed page comprising:

having artwork for a first page to be printed;

providing a printing model to simulate a first printed page using artwork;

simulating the first page to be printed using the printing model to create a virtual proof;

extracting a first set of non-symbolic image features from the virtual proof page;

appending the first set of non-symbolic image features to a pre-determined URL to form a second URL;

printing the first page;

providing a website at the second URL and receiving an access request for the website; and

wherein the features include one or more of image density, image color, sub-area color, contrast, sub-area contrast, maximum spatial frequency information, screen angles and halftone screen frequency.

Assignments (14)
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Mar 4, 2021
From: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
To: ALTER DOMUS (US) LLC
Reel/Frame 056734/0233 →
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Mar 4, 2021
From: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
To: ALTER DOMUS (US) LLC
Reel/Frame 056734/0001 →
NOTICE OF SECURITY INTERESTS Recorded Mar 4, 2021
From: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
To: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., AS AGENT
Reel/Frame 056984/0001 →
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Mar 4, 2021
From: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
To: ALTER DOMUS (US) LLC
Reel/Frame 056733/0681 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jan 24, 2020
From: BARCLAYS BANK PLC
To: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY; FAR EAST DEVELOPMENT LTD.; FPC INC.; KODAK (NEAR EAST) INC.; KODAK AMERICAS LTD.; KODAK REALTY INC.; LASER PACIFIC MEDIA CORPORATION; QUALEX INC.; KODAK PHILIPPINES LTD.; NPEC INC.
Reel/Frame 052773/0001 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jul 30, 2019
From: JP MORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
To: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY; FAR EAST DEVELOPMENT LTD.; PFC, INC.; KODAK (NEAR EAST), INC.; KODAK AMERICAS, LTD.; KODAK IMAGING NETWORK, INC.; KODAK PORTUGUESA LIMITED; KODAK REALTY, INC.; LASER PACIFIC MEDIA CORPORATION; PAKON, INC.; QUALEX, INC.; KODAK PHILIPPINES, LTD.; NPEC, INC.; CREO MANUFACTURING AMERICA LLC; KODAK AVIATION LEASING LLC
Reel/Frame 049901/0001 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jul 22, 2019
From: JP MORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
To: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY; FAR EAST DEVELOPMENT LTD.; FPC, INC.; KODAK (NEAR EAST), INC.; KODAK AMERICAS, LTD.; KODAK IMAGING NETWORK, INC.; KODAK PORTUGUESA LIMITED; KODAK REALTY, INC.; LASER PACIFIC MEDIA CORPORATION; PAKON, INC.; QUALEX, INC.; KODAK PHILIPPINES, LTD.; NPEC, INC.; CREO MANUFACTURING AMERICA LLC; KODAK AVIATION LEASING LLC
Reel/Frame 050239/0001 →
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY AGREEMENT (FIRST LIEN) Recorded Sep 5, 2013
From: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY; FAR EAST DEVELOPMENT LTD.; FPC INC.; KODAK (NEAR EAST), INC.; KODAK IMAGING NETWORK, INC.; KODAK PORTUGUESA LIMITED; KODAK REALTY, INC.; LASER-PACIFIC MEDIA CORPORATION; PAKON, INC.; QUALEX INC.; KODAK PHILIPPINES, LTD.; NPEC INC.; CREO MANUFACTURING AMERICA LLC; KODAK AVIATION LEASING LLC; KODAK AMERICAS, LTD.
To: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS ADMINISTRATIVE
Reel/Frame 031158/0001 →
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY AGREEMENT (SECOND LIEN) Recorded Sep 5, 2013
From: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY; FAR EAST DEVELOPMENT LTD.; FPC INC.; KODAK (NEAR EAST), INC.; KODAK AMERICAS, LTD.; KODAK IMAGING NETWORK, INC.; KODAK PORTUGUESA LIMITED; KODAK REALTY, INC.; LASER-PACIFIC MEDIA CORPORATION; PAKON, INC.; QUALEX INC.; KODAK PHILIPPINES, LTD.; NPEC INC.; CREO MANUFACTURING AMERICA LLC; KODAK AVIATION LEASING LLC
To: BARCLAYS BANK PLC, AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
Reel/Frame 031159/0001 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST IN PATENTS Recorded Sep 5, 2013
From: CITICORP NORTH AMERICA, INC., AS SENIOR DIP AGENT; WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS JUNIOR DIP AGENT
To: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY; PAKON, INC.
Reel/Frame 031157/0451 →
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY AGREEMENT (ABL) Recorded Sep 5, 2013
From: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY; FAR EAST DEVELOPMENT LTD.; FPC INC.; KODAK (NEAR EAST), INC.; KODAK AMERICAS, LTD.; KODAK IMAGING NETWORK, INC.; KODAK PORTUGUESA LIMITED; KODAK REALTY, INC.; LASER-PACIFIC MEDIA CORPORATION; PAKON, INC.; QUALEX INC.; KODAK PHILIPPINES, LTD.; NPEC INC.; CREO MANUFACTURING AMERICA LLC; KODAK AVIATION LEASING LLC
To: BANK OF AMERICA N.A., AS AGENT
Reel/Frame 031162/0117 →
PATENT SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Apr 1, 2013
From: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY; PAKON, INC.
To: WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS AGENT
Reel/Frame 030122/0235 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Feb 21, 2012
From: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY; PAKON, INC.
To: CITICORP NORTH AMERICA, INC., AS AGENT
Reel/Frame 028201/0420 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 3, 2011
From: SANGER, KURT M.
To: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
Reel/Frame 026695/0132 →
Continuity (1)
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