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(12) United States Patent (10) Patent N0.: US 7,609,410 B2 Lapstun et a]. (45) Date of Patent: Oct. 27, 2009
(54) MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION DEVICE 5,051,736 A 9/1991 Bennett et al. WITH INTEGRAL PRINTER MECHANISM 5,465,080 A 11/1995 Liddiard et al. AND SENSING MEANS
(75) Inventors: Paul Lapstun, Balmain (AU); Kia Silverbrook, Balmain (AU); Tobin (Continued) Allen King, Balmain (AU) FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS (73) Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd, Balmain, New South Wales (AU) EP 0274571 7/1988
( * ) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35 USC 154(b) by 978 days. (Continued) (21) Appl.No.: 10/917,436 OTHER PUBLICATIONS Dymetman, M., and Copperman, M., Intelligent Paper; in Electronic (22) Filed: Aug. 13, 2004 Publishing, Artistic Imaging, and Digital Typography, Proceedings ofEP ’98, Mar/Apr. 1998, SpringerVerlag LNCS 1375, pp. 392-406. (65) Prior Publication Data US 2005/0040350 A1 Feb. 24, 2005 Primary ExamineriDov Popovici Assistant ExamineriThierry L Pham Related US. Application Data (57) ABSTRACT (63) Continuation of application No. 09/722,147, ?led on Nov. 25, 2000, now Pat. No. 6,946,672. (30) Foreign Application Priority Data A mobile telecommunications device is disclosed. The mobile telecommunications device includes an image sensor Dec. 1, 1999 (AU) ...... PQ4392 for sensing coded data from a printed interface whilst the mobile telecommunications device is used to physically inter (51) Int. Cl. act with the printed interface. The mobile telecommunica G06K 15/00 (2006.01) tions device also includes a processor con?gured to decode G06F 3/12 (2006.01) the sensed coded data. The data generated by the processor is (52) US. Cl...... 358/118; 358/115 then transmitted to a computer system via a mobile telecom (58) Field of Classi?cation Search ...... 358/11, munications network and using a transmitter of the mobile 358/19, 1114118, 401, 179, 472; 235/487, telecommunications device. A receiver of the mobile tele 235/494; 345/84, 173, 179; 382/119, 137, communications device receives response data via the mobile 382/186; 400/61, 70, 76, 88 telecommunications network in response to the data being See application ?le for complete search history. transmitted. An integral printer mechanism of the mobile telecommunications device is con?gured to print another (56) References Cited interface onto print media. The other interface also includes U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS coded data, but is at least partially based on the response data. 4,864,618 A 9/1989 Wright et al. 4,888,479 A 12/1989 Tamaru 3 Claims, 24 Drawing Sheets
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