Overview
Someday you will be able to make a printout copy on plain paper, and have the full electronic image built into the paper, and retrievable and searchable as full text, PDF, video, audio annotation, and more, from electronic content put onto memory built into, or affixed into, the paper itself.   Our patent teaches how copiers and printers can add this innovation into a new type of paper that is also described.

Electronic paper, being developed by E-Ink and Gyricon (formerly Xerox), has been covered in Scientific America, Forbes, MIT Technology Review, and other publications.   A material that looks like paper functions like a display, with excellent contrast.   It can be read in ordinary light and looks just like ordinary paper.   It is expected to revolutionize publishing in our lifetimes, allowing for electronic newspapers and magazines.   Our pending patents cover several exciting applications for this new medium, including intelligent maps, low cost paper brochures with full motion video display and interactive web pages, cereal boxes with built in games, and much more.

This patent teaches how an ordinary sheet of paper, or a substrate having the appearance of paper, can contain information related to the document itself.   This might take the form of voice annotation that can be played back on a host of devices, the PDF image of the document, the actual text and graphics (avoiding the need to scan this in and the risk of conversion errors).

The patent also teaches how to add the memory to the paper (or other substrate) at the time of printing or copying, by equipping the copier or printer with the means to transmit information to the storage media embedded in or attached to the paper or paper-like substrate.   The patent also teaches how to affix a memory device, such as a ROM chip, laser card, et al to the paper at the time of printing, using a method for affixing the memory device and adhering it using tape, adhesive, or other post imaging methods.

The inventor is Michael L. Weiner .

Contact
For more information please contact:
Michael Weiner
Technology Innovations, LLC
Phone: 239-603-6446

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