Google Books & Rhythm

[prior]

This is my first post proper so many apologies if this is in the wrong place or has been discussed already...

Has anyone seen a patent Google filed back in 2003 ("Pacing and error monitoring of manual page turning operator") that outlines a scanner with speakers that would play some kind of music or tempo to help the people scanning maintain a rhythm. It also mentions how a poorly-scanned page could be recognized in realtime and generate an audio signal to alert the scanner operator — presumably a bum note...

Not sure if it's ok to post pictures from the patent so I'll just link to the post that I first found...

http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=3077


nick

[Misty]

Interesting (and weird) patent. I haven't heard of this before - thanks for posting! I don't know if they ever actually used this.

[benjamin]

we've just started implementing our software in a production environment, and the first piece of feedback I got was a request for an audio prompt when the system was ready to take the next shot. we talked for a while about what kind of sound would be unobtrusive but facilitate falling into a rhythm since once the first few pages are shot image preview kind of becomes redundant. the error reporting concept is new, i like it.

[Misty]

I think I mentioned it before, but the Internet Archive Scribe machines actually disable preview altogether for that reason. They found it becomes more of a distraction than a help, and that it's more effective to only review the images after shooting all pages.