Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B42—BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
  • B42D—BOOKS; BOOK COVERS; LOOSE LEAVES; PRINTED MATTER CHARACTERISED BY IDENTIFICATION OR SECURITY FEATURES; PRINTED MATTER OF SPECIAL FORMAT OR STYLE NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; DEVICES FOR USE THEREWITH AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; MOVABLE-STRIP WRITING OR READING APPARATUS
  • B42D1/00—Books or other bound products
  • B42D1/009—Books or other bound products characterised by printed matter not otherwise provided for
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B42—BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
  • B42D—BOOKS; BOOK COVERS; LOOSE LEAVES; PRINTED MATTER CHARACTERISED BY IDENTIFICATION OR SECURITY FEATURES; PRINTED MATTER OF SPECIAL FORMAT OR STYLE NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; DEVICES FOR USE THEREWITH AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; MOVABLE-STRIP WRITING OR READING APPARATUS
  • B42D1/00—Books or other bound products
  • B42D1/003—Books or other bound products characterised by shape or material of the sheets
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G06—COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
  • G06V—IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING
  • G06V10/00—Arrangements for image or video recognition or understanding
  • G06V10/10—Image acquisition
  • G06V10/12—Details of acquisition arrangements; Constructional details thereof
  • G06V10/14—Optical characteristics of the device performing the acquisition or on the illumination arrangements
  • G06V10/143—Sensing or illuminating at different wavelengths
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
  • H04N1/00—Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
  • H04N1/387—Composing, repositioning or otherwise geometrically modifying originals
  • H04N1/3871—Composing, repositioning or otherwise geometrically modifying originals the composed originals being of different kinds, e.g. low- and high-resolution originals

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a notebook particularly suitable for the digitization of the notes taken on its pages.
• the present invention also relates to a method for digitizing notes by means of said notebook.
• the conversion of the pages of a notebook using a digital camera requires algorithms for the conversion of the notes which are substantially different from those used for the conversion of notes written on single pages, namely unbound, acquired by a scanner, wherein said conversion errors not are present since the single pages remain still, flat and in close contact with a scanner during their conversion, which however is not possibile by photographing pages of a notebook, which tend to bend due to the binding and always have light, distance and angle variations with respect to the digital camera.
• conversion algorithms could exploit the horizontal and/or vertical present in the known striped or checked notebooks, however in this case the lines would be confused with the notes, or vice versa, creating further conversion errors.
• Object of the present invention is therefore to provide a method for digitizing notes that is free from such drawbacks. Said object is achieved with a notebook and a method whose main features are specified respectively in claims 1 and 8, while other features are specified in the remaining claims.
• the notebook according to the present invention can be advantageously used to take notes that can be converted into data in a much more precise way compared to known notebooks and methods.
• these particular lines are not confused with the notes, even in difficult lighting and orientation conditions, so that they can serve as a guiding grid both to write the notes in an neat manner and to correct any conversion errors due to the binding or to the inclination of the notebook pages.
• the notebook is provided with sheets of special adhesive labels that can be converted into digital commands together with the notes.
• the notebook while being free of electrical or electronic elements, is transformed into a complete input device not only of data but also of commands, which also allows inexperienced users to interact in an advanced manner with electronic devices and systems (smartphones, tablet PCs, data servers, cloud and web applications, etc.), in particular to log in or activate these systems, or to catalog and/or format the acquired data, which can then be easily stored in local and/or remote databases.
• the present invention also relates to particular ranges of values of the colors of the pages, lines and labels, which have provided unexpected and surprising results in terms of conversion precision of the photographed images, namely of reduction of the errors due to possible mutual confusions between notes, lines, adhesive labels and light reflections on the pages of the notebook.
• Figure 1 shows a top view of the closed notebook
• Figure 2 shows a side view of the notebook of Figure 1;
• Figure 3 shows a top view of the notebook of Figure 1, when opened
• Figure 4 shows the enlarged detail IV of Figure 3;
• Figure 5 shows a sheet of adhesive labels
• Figure 6 shows a detail of a page of the notebook of Figure 1;
• Figure 7 shows the notebook of Figure 3 with some notes and labels.
• the notebook comprises a plurality of pages 1 of paper, bound together with a cover 2 which can be provided with an elastic tape 3 to keep the notebook closed.
• the notebook may also include a bookmark 4.
• a plurality of substantially vertical and/or substantially horizontal lines are printed on pages 1.
• said substantially vertical and/or substantially horizontal lines are formed by a plurality of dots 5 aligned with each other, which have a maximum size, in particular a diameter, comprised between 0,21 and 0,35 mm.
• the distance between two adjacent dots 5 of a same line is comprised between 0,43 and 0,7 mm.
• the color of dots 5 is darker than the color of the page 1.
• the color of page 1 is white or a color tending to white, particularly ivory, light beige or vanilla, preferably the color PANT ONE 11-0104 TPX.
• the sum of the four quadrichrome CMYK values (percentages of cyan, magenta, yellow and black) of the color of page 1 is comprised between 0 and 20, in particular between 10 and 20, with the fourth value K (black) less than 10.
• the sum of the four CMYK values of the color of dots 5 is instead comprised between 15 and 50, in particular between 25 and 40, with the fourth value K (black) less than 40.
• the difference between the sums of the CMYK color values of dots 5 and of page 1 is greater than 10.
• the four CMYK values of the color of dots 5 are preferably comprised between 0 / 3 / 6 / 16 and 0 / 5 / 11 / 23, namely between the colors PANTONE 400 U and 401 U.
• the notebook is also provided with one or more sheets 6 comprising one or more adhesive labels 7, 8 which can be detached from a sheet 6 and applied on a page 1 of the notebook.
• the adhesive labels 7, 8 have a shaped profile and/or include a graphic symbol 9 (one or more figures and/or alphanumeric characters) printed on them.
• one or more adhesive labels 7 have a profile and/or a graphical symbol in the form of an arrow.
• the sum of the four CMYK values of the color of the adhesive labels 7, 8 and/or of their graphic symbol 9 is comprised between 50 and 150, in particular between 70 and 150, with the fourth value K (black) less than 50, as preferably the colors Pantone 109, 1495, 232, 2665, 319, 376 and Process Blue.
• the notebook is preferably also provided with a code 10, in particular a sequence of alphanumeric characters, that is printed on a page 1 (which can also be devoid of dots 5) and/or on cover 2.
• code 10 is printed on an adhesive label 11 which is in turn applied on a page 1 and/or on cover 2 of the notebook.
• the method of digitizing notes comprises the following steps:
• photographing page 1 with a digital camera (not shown in the figures), which can be incorporated in another digital device, such as a smartphone or a tablet PC.
• the digital image of page 1 photographed by said digital camera is then digitally processed by a computer (smartphone, tablet, notebook, PC, web server, etc.) so as to convert notes 12 into digital data and the adhesive label 7, 8 into one or more digital commands associated with notes 12, such as a classification command (work, travel, home, etc.) of the contents of notes 12.
• a computer smart phone, tablet, notebook, PC, web server, etc.
• the adhesive label 7 is and/or includes an arrow
• the data corresponding to the notes indicated by the arrow 12 are extracted by the computer from the rest of the data corresponding the notes 12, for example a storage in a separate field (title, subject , address, etc.) of a data base.
• the user photographs code 10 which code is then scanned to provide a unique digital command to a computer, in particular a unique command of activation and/or registration of a web service suitable to provide the above digital processing of notes 12 and labels 7, 8.

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