Abstract:
According to the method of the invention, a set of target files is linked to a main file by encoding the target addresses or URLs of these target files into the primary filename of the main file. Separator characters are used to distinguish the primary filename of the main file and the encoded address of each linked target file. Linked target files may be of any kind including, source files of the main file, metadata, multimedia information and services. Since most file systems do not accept certain characters on valid filenames, addresses of linked target files are encoded so that any forbidden character is replaced by an associated authorized character. A lexicography table stores all pairs of forbidden and corresponding authorized characters. Likewise, since filenames length is generally limited to 256 characters, the encoding process may be optimized to reduce the length of the encoded addresses or URLs.
Abstract:
The present invention discloses a system, method and computer program for selecting, ordering, accessing and displaying copyrighted information from physical documents such as printed publications or commercials. The invention allows the management and the direct sale from the editor to the final consumer of electronic information referenced on physical publications while respecting the copyrights attached to this electronic information. According to the present invention, a plurality of particular items (i.e., words, pictures, logos, etc.,) are defined on a physical document. These items are linked to copyrighted hardcopy or softcopy edited objets, such as chapters, notes, pictures, video or audio elements. For identifying and selecting the items defined in the physical document, these items are automatically illuminated by luminous signals (or light spots) generated by an opto-touch foil. The opto-touch foil operates under the control of a user workstation. An illuminated item is selected by the user by pressing the opto-touch foil over the illuminated position of this item. When the user selects a particular item among all illuminated items, the user workstation receives from the opto-touch foil a signal indicating the position of this selected item. The user workstation identifies and locates the edited object associated with the position of the selected item referring to an Edited Objects Table. If the user has already a license for the edited object, and if this edited object is already stored in the user workstation, then this edited object is accessed locally. If the user has no copyright for the edited object, a request is sent through a network to an Edited Objects server, to get a description and ordering information about the selected edited object. The edited object can then be downloaded and stored locally for a fee.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to a user system, a method for use in a user system, and a computer program for composing an electronic document from content directly selected from a plurality of physical documents. The method comprises the steps of : identifying a physical document; identifying and electronic copy of said identified physical document; identifying one or a plurality of pages of said physical document, and identifying parts of said pages marked on a digitizing tablet successively placed and aligned over (or under) said identified pages; retrieving the electronic copies of the identified pages from the electronic copy of the physical document; automatically marking on the received electronic pages, the parts selected by the user on the physical documents; copying the parts marked on retrieved electronic pages to the operating system clipboard; a pasting the content of the clipboard to destinations files specified by the user.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to a system, method and computer program for enabling an auditor of a live speech to access immediately after or at a later time, complementary information related with terms pronounced during this speech. The system associates hyperlinks (i.e., URLs) with selected terms or words likely to be pronounced by the speaker in the course of the speech. A speech recognition system operating on a speaker device (i.e., a computing system a with a microphone connected to it) recognizes during the speech (i.e., word spotting) the pronunciation by the speaker of anyone of said hyperlinked terms, and records the time at which each recognized hyperlinked term has been pronounced. The system is also based on the synchronization of the speaker device with several auditors devices (e.g., workstations, portable computers, personal digital assistants - PDAs , smart phones, or any other type of handheld computing devices) according to a same universal time, so that the flow of information transmitted by the speaker and received by the auditors is always synchronized, independently of the relative positions of the speaker and auditors. Each time the auditor perceives an interesting topic during the speech, he immediately selects the topic simply by pressing a reserved key on the auditor's device. Universal times at which topics are selected by the auditor are stored in the auditor device.
Abstract:
The present invention discloses a system and a method for selecting, accessing and retrieving directly from a physical (i.e., hard-copy) document, hypertext documents located on a user workstation or on one or a plurality of servers connected to a communication network, and for displaying the retrieved hypertext documents over said physical document. The information is accessed by the user simply by touching with a finger items (i.e., words, letters, symbols, pictures, icons, ...) that are highlighted on an electronic hypertext document displayed over the physical document. The method, for use in a user system comprises the steps of: - identifying a physical document, this physical document comprising one or a plurality of pages; - identifying a page of said physical document; - identifying and locating an electronic document associated with the identified page referring to a document hyperlink table; said document hyperlink table comprising for each page of the physical document the identification and location of an electronic document; - accessing and retrieving the electronic document associated with the identified page; - displaying the retrieved electronic document by means of an opto-touch foil placed over the identified page.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to a system and method for enabling a radio auditor or a television viewer (100) to access complementary information (101) related to a broadcast program (102) received in real-time. The preferred embodiment of the invention relates to a system and method for enabling a person (100) receiving a broadcast program (102), to select a plurality of topics drawing his or her attention (101) (103) and for immediately, or at a later time, accessing additional information related to these topics from the Word Wide Web. The system is based on a synchronization of the local times of receivers and transmitters according to a same universal-time (201) (202), so that the flow of information transmitted and received is always synchronized, independently of the relative positions of receivers and transmitters. The synchronization is done referring to an universal time such as the Global Positioning System Time (GPS-time), the Global Orbiting Navigational Satellite System (GLONASS) time or another suitable universal time based on a satellite system. The GPS or GLONASS receivers are connected or integrated to the broadcasting stations. At the receiver side, GPS or GLONASS receivers may be integrated or connected to devices (e.g., Personal Computers, wearable computers, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), smart phones or onboard mobile computers) that may be independent or separate from the radio or television receivers. The system is also based on a plurality of hyperlinks defined for given universal-time intervals of retransmission. The hyperlinks are associated with the transmitted information. The hyperlinks can be retrieved, selected and activated by radio auditors or television viewers during the time intervals for which they have been defined.
Abstract:
The invention discloses a system and method for blind people for detecting hyperlinks and for accessing from said hyperlinks multimedia information and/or services located on one or a plurality of servers connected to a communication network. While a user is reading a page on a Braille document, a proximity sense foil placed under the page detects the position of his fingertips and computes the coordinates of the sensed position. These coordinates are sent to a workstation. The user workstation then computes the distance between the sensed position and the positions of the hyperlinks defined on this page. The coordinates of hyperlinks are stored in an hyperlink table during an initial phase. If the computed distance between the sensed position and a certain hyperlink on the hyperlink table is smaller than a predetermined minimum value, it is concluded that user's fingertips are positioned over the corresponding hyperlink. The user workstation then warns the user by means of an acoustic signal or any other perceptible signal that an hyperlink is associated with the item he presently reads. The user then can choose to activate this hyperlink by any means (e.g., by pressing a special key on the user workstation). When the user activates the detected hyperlink, the user workstation identifies in the same hyperlink table a server and within this server the information and/or the service associated with the detected hyperlink. Finally, a request is sent to the identified server for accessing the desired information and/or service. In a particular embodiment, the user workstation is connected to the Internet network and comprises a Web Browser application. Servers are Web servers and the information or/and the service are Web pages linked to the items embossed or engraved on the Braille document.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for merging information required for authenticating a text document to a main body of the document in a form of an excess blank between words. SOLUTION: This method for marking an original text document by changing existing blank characters among words is disclosed. First, intervals among words are made to be composed only of the odd numbers of blank characters by applying reversible deformation. Next, an authentication pattern is merged to a first subset by dividing a deformed original text into two subsets and adding the blank characters among words to them. An ambiguous pattern for further changing the number of blank characters is calculated for concealing the authentication pattern. An text with mark to be authenticated is obtained by combining both subsets again after making a second subset ambiguous as well. In addition, a method for authenticating the text document marked according to the above method is also disclosed.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for merging information required for authenticating a text document to the text itself of the document. SOLUTION: A text 100 to be marked is edited and a text 120 in a standard form suited to a model is provided. Next, while using this text in the standard form and a secret key 130 as entry, the unique combination of positions of inter-word blank character is calculated and an extra blank is inserted thereto so that the document of a marked text 150 can be provided. The received marked text document is authenticated by a receiver who shares the secret key and compares the received text document with the marked text document and when both the documents are strictly coincident, the received text document is accepted as true one however when these documents are not coincident, the document is refused as a false.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable the self-evaluation of easiness with a logic function by executing logical operation between a Logic input line and a Logic output line at all the time while a valid mode is active and propagating a dummy mode in spite of whether the Logic input line is in assert state or de-assert state, however, in the dummy mode. SOLUTION: An autonomous logic kernel ALK 100 has a Logic input 110 and at least one Logic output 120 and executes a specified logic function. On an additional Mode input 130 of the ALK 100 capable of having plural lines, however, the dummy state capable of freely propagating through the ALK 100 circuit to a correspondent Mode output 140 can be asserted and the dummy state finally appears on the Mode output 140. The ALK 100 generates the propagation of this dummy state in spite of a logic level existent on the set of Logic inputs 110.