US 12,189,705 B1
Three-dimensional publications with quick response (QR) code linked virtual content
Talia Tabatha Smith, New York, NY (US)
Filed by Talia Tabatha Smith, New York, NY (US)
Filed on Jan. 16, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/413,577.
Int. Cl. G06F 16/955 (2019.01); G06K 7/14 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 16/9554 (2019.01) [G06K 7/1417 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An article, comprising:
a paper having a first configuration and including a plurality of folds and a plurality of faces, the plurality of faces including a first face that defines a first plane and a second face that defines a second plane different from the first plane, the first configuration defining an at least partially enclosed volume;
a plurality of markings, each marking from the plurality of markings encoding a uniform resource locator (URL) from a plurality of URLs and configured to be decoded using a mobile compute device, the URL being associated with one of a digital magazine or a virtual museum, the plurality of markings including:
a first marking encoding a first URL and being disposed on a first face that is from the plurality of faces and that is at least partially obfuscated when the paper is in the first configuration, and
a second marking (1) encoding a second URL to be visited after the first URL and (2) being disposed on a second face that is from the plurality of faces and that is at least partially obfuscated when the paper is in the first configuration;
at least one instruction for unfolding the paper from the first configuration to a second configuration in which the first marking is fully visible and the second marking is at least partially obfuscated; and
at least one instruction for unfolding the paper from the second configuration to a third configuration in which the second marking is fully visible,
the paper, when in the first configuration, having a three-dimensional shape that indicates a topic of at least one of (1) a virtual exhibit of the virtual museum or (2) a portion of the digital magazine, associated with at least one of the first URL or the second URL.