Umark: the figure code system enables interactive mutual conversion between ATOM and BIT

Author

Usuda, Hiroshi ; Idesawa, Masanori

Author_Institution

Graduate Sch. of Inf. Syst., Univ. of Electro-Commun., Chofu, Japan

Volume

4

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

47

Abstract

The paper discusses a method for the connection of ATOM (information of real world) and BIT (information of computer world). For instance, a scanner is an ATOM to BIT conversion device that converts ATOM (analog information on a paper) to BIT (digital information on a computer). Moreover, a printer is a BIT to ATOM conversion device that makes an ATOM (analog information on a paper) from BIT (digital information on a computer). Individual conversion does not turn to mutual conversion by information on paper for these devices because only the efficiency of one is considered. In recent research, the method of real time converting the print code defined beforehand as ATOM into digital information which is BIT is proposed by using a camera. In this research, interactive mutual conversion of ATOM and BIT is enabled, and the figure code system which can be printed and defined freely and the mechanism of mutual conversion are described

Keywords

document image processing; image scanners; printers; real-time systems; Umark; analog information; computer based information; digital information; figure code system; interactive mutual conversion; printer; real time; real world information; scanner; Analog computers; Charge coupled devices; Charge-coupled image sensors; Computer displays; Design methodology; Digital cameras; Image converters; Information systems; Keyboards; Printers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1999. IEEE SMC '99 Conference Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5731-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1999.812374

Filename

812374