A method and system for generating a customized, printed, three-dimensional object accesses a data record for a selected recipient and prints objects on a substrate based on the data record. The method and system then generates die lines based on the data record, and finishes the substrate by cutting, perforating, creasing, folding or otherwise finishing the substrate along the die lines to yield a customized, three-dimensional printed object.

The invention involves information association technology of cross-media product, in particular to a plane publication product of an Interactive Interconnected Systems. The plane publication product is formed by associated data and media information data synthesis. The features are:

The Interactive Interconnected Systems is a composite of an electronic reading device and an electronic transmitter-receiver.

A plane publication product contains others publication information.

The Interactive Interconnected Systems includes an electronic reading device and an electronic transmitter-receiver. The multimedia information signal is a combination of various media data. The associated data is an URI (Uniform Resource Identifier). The electronic transmitter-receiver includes an associated data reception circuit, an associated data transmission circuit and a central processing unit (with memory).

The associated data reception circuit is attached with a short-distance signal transmission-reception circuit. The electronic transmitter-receiver is used to control the transceive of the associated data from the decomposition multimedia information signal. It receives the associated data decomposed by the transmission circuit of the electronic reading device, and then transmits the associated data to external data storage via remote communication technology. This can obtain the associated digital resource in a quick and efficiency way.

Die Erfindung betrifft einen Produktkatalog (1) mit einer Sammlung von Informationen zu Produkten, wobei die Darstellung (2) der Informationen zumindest für einzelne, in dem Produktkatalog enthaltene Produkte einen maschinenlesbaren Produktcode (3) umfasst, welcher Informationen zu dem Produkt enthält. Um es einem Benutzer zu ermöglichen auf möglichst einfache, wenig fehleranfällige und zeitsparende Weise die in dem Produktkatalog dargestellten Produkte in einem automatisierten Verfahren zu bestellen, sieht die Erfindung vor, dass in oder an dem Produktkatalog (1) wenigstens ein Identifikationsmittel (4) mit individuellen Daten eines Benutzers des Produktkatalogs (1) zur Identifizierung des Benutzers so angeordnet ist, dass es zusammen mit wenigstens einem Produktcode (3) von einem Lesegerät (10) auslesbar ist. Die Erfindung betrifft ferner Verfahren zum automatischen Bestellen von in einem Produktkatalog (1) dargestellten Produkten oder von zeichnerischen bzw. virtuellen Darstellungen solcher Produkte durch einen Benutzer sowie ein Computerprogrammprodukt zur automatisierten Durchführung des Verfahrens.

A book for use in an augmented reality system comprises a plurality of stiff leaves, each side of which forms a page of the book and in which each such page comprises a fiduciary marker, and a cover having larger dimensions than said leaves of the book, and hence having extremities that extend beyond the outer edges of said pages, in which the inside of the cover comprises a first high contrast pattern along at least a first such extremity; meanwhile, an entertainment device for use in the augmented reality system comprises input means operable to receive a video image of the book according, and image processing means operable to estimate a position and orientation of the book from a fiduciary marker of the book captured in the video image and operable to estimate a position and orientation of a first high contrast pattern on an extremity of an inside cover of the book captured in the video image, and in which the image processing means is operable to distinguish between one or more leaves of the book being turned independently of the cover of the book, as opposed to the turning of a cover of the book, in response to the position and orientation of the first high contrast pattern.

A book for use in an augmented reality system comprises a first page on a first leaf of the book comprising a first fiduciary marker for indicating the orientation of the book to a recognition system, and a second page on a second leaf of the book comprising a second fiduciary marker for indicating the orientation of the book to a recognition system and also page marker for indicating the page number of the second page to the recognition system, wherein the orientation of the page marker is ambiguous without reference to a fiduciary marker, and the page marker is positioned on the second page closer to an edge of the page than the second fiduciary marker so as to become visible to the recognition system before the second fiduciary marker, as the book is turned to the second page; meanwhile, an entertainment device comprises a video input for receiving captured video frames comprising an image of the book, a fiduciary marker recognition processor operable to recognise the first fiduciary marker printed on the first page of the book and operable to estimate an orientation of the book based upon the recognised first fiduciary marker, and a page marker recognition processor operable to recognise the page marker printed on the second page of the book with reference to the estimated orientation of the book as based upon the recognised first fiduciary marker printed on the first page of the book.

A booklet is provided including at least a sheet-like first substrate, and a sheet-like second substrate that is attached to the first substrate. The first saddle-stitch substrate includes a light-transmitting region, and an optical functional unit having a polarization or phase modulation function is provided to the light-transmitting region. In the second saddle-stitch substrate, a latent image, which is manifested by allowing the optical functional unit to operate, is provided to a surface that is opposite to the first saddle-stitch substrate at a position corresponding to the optical functional unit.

Bei einer Anordnung zur Aufnahme eines Informationsbuches (2) sowie der Information dienenden Beilagen (3) sind auf einem Träger (1) nebeneinander das Informationsbuch (2) sowie die Beilagen (3) angeordnet.

Das Informationsbuch (2) weist aufklappbare Doppelseiten (6', 6") auf, die den jeweiligen Beilagen (3) zugeordnete Öffnungen (5) besitzen, die beim Aufklappen einer Doppelseite (6") nur die auf der Doppelseite (6") beschriebene Beilage (3a) zur Ansicht freigeben.

Dadurch wird eine übersichtliche Anordnung erreicht.

Bei einem Buch aus einer Mehrzahl von Seiten, die miteinander verbunden sind, wobei sich auf zumindest einer Seite (1) eine Abbildung (5) befindet, soll der Abbildung (5) eine Postkarte (6, 6.1 bis 6.3) mit derselben Abbildung (5) zugeordnet sein.

A method and apparatus use an in-line printer to print on chips or swatches (12) mounted on an underlying substrate such as a sheet or web of paper or paperboard. The chips may have varying heights due to variations of thickness of the paint on the chip and/or adhesive mounting the chips to the substrate. The sheets are continuously moving through the chip mounting machine and the printing machine which are synchronized to operate at the same speed. In the illustrated apparatus, conveyor pushers push the sheets (10) through the chip mounting machine (15) and through the printer machine (22) and resilient strips on the printing roller form a nip with an underlying anvil roller (72) to grip and hold the chips (12) against shifting to prevent smearing of the ink as the sheets are pushed through the nip between the printing cylinder and the anvil roller. An in-line trimming apparatus (24) such as die cutter may cut the chips (12) to size and/or shape as to provide rectangularly mounted chips with arcs, curves, circles, etc. The trimmed scrap from a trimmed chip is removed by a vacuum conveying system. In the illustrated apparatus, an in-line folder may fold the printed chip bearing sheets to complete the illustrated in-line apparatus and method.

The present invention relates to a book (1) comprising a plurality of pages bound together and divided into different sections (2,3,4) adjacent to each other; each of the sections comprises at least one page (2A,3A,4A) of a first type and at least one page (2B,3B,4B) of a second type; all the pages of each section have the same shape; pages of different sections have different shapes; when the book is closed, the combination of the different sections (2,3,4) forms a subject in relief.

A children's book (1) include a front cover (5), a back cover (10), and at least one leaf (15) positioned between the front cover and the back cover. A spine portion (20) of the book connects the front cover, the leaf and the back cover. The bok further includes at least one attachment arrangement (30) and at least one rotation member (25). The front cover, the leaf, and/or the back cover has at least one cut-out portion (35). The rotating member (25) is rotatably connected to a respective front cover, back cover and/or leaf by positioned within the cut-out portion using the attachment arrangement (30) so that the rotating member is rotatable about an axis extending along a plane of the book.