c technologies headquarters lund sweden revenue 459 msek 1 operating income 8.9 msek number of employees 110 website http www.anoto.com anoto group ab former c technologies is a swedish technology company that develops and licenses digital pens . with around 110 employees the company is headquartered in lund sweden with offices in boston basingstoke and wetherby in the uk and tokyo . contents 1 products 2 c pen 3 patents 4 see also 5 references 6 external links products edit the pattern of dots surrounding this letter a uniquely identifies its location . anoto s main product is the anoto digital pen a combination of ordinary ink pen and a digital camera and supporting hardware that digitally records everything written with the pen . it works by recognizing a special non repeating dot pattern printed on the paper . the non repeating nature of the pattern means that the pen is able to determine which page is being written on and where on the page the pen is . the dot pattern can be printed on a professional offset printing press or on a laser printer . dots are printed in black ; other colors of ink are invisible to the pen s ir sensor . on a color laser printer cmy can be mixed to produce a near black color that is human readable . for offset printing anoto developed an ink color called anoto substitute black a non carbon based black ink that is invisible in the ir region allowing the user to include human readable black marks with the dot pattern without interference . while some of anoto s licensees have targeted the consumer sector with for example learning toys most licensees sell their products to solution providers who put together customized vertical market systems . anoto also sells a software development kit sdk numerous software applications the anoto forms solution afs . in addition anoto sells an asic design for the image processing component of the pen ; most pen licensees use the same basic design of optical assembly and pen internals . anoto has approximately 350 partners primarily in europe the united states and japan . optical scan voting systems are based on anoto technology . models include ericsson chatpen cha 30 discontinued nokia su 1b digital pen discontinued nokia su 27w successor to su 1b rebranded logitech io2 1 logitech io2 digital pen logitech io digital pen earlier version discontinued maxell digital pen an earlier version might have been discontinued hewlett packard digital pen 200 discontinued rebranded logitech hewlett packard digital pen 250 fly pentop computer tag leapfrog livescribe pulse smartpen livescribe echo smartpen livescribe sky wifi smartpen anoto digital pen dp 201 live pen 1 anoto digital pen io2 bluetooth anoto digital pen dp 301 polyvision digital stylus dp 301 anoto live pen 2 anoto also has a few other products the anoto forms solution includes all components required to set up and use digital pen and paper in order to capture transfer and incorporate handwritten information from paper forms into any back end system . anoto pendocuments pro allows users to create electronic copies of handwritten documents . anoto penpresenter is a personal digital whiteboard . by projecting a blank powerpoint slide a digital whiteboard is created . c pen edit anoto also develops and sells the product c pen a one line text scanner . patents edit anoto holds more than 300 international patents on their technology and some 300 additional patent applications . in 2004 anoto prevailed in a patent infringement lawsuit filed by oral sekendur regarding anoto s dot pattern technology . 2 3 the sekendur patent was held invalid . 4 see also edit digital pen digital paper list of pen types brands and companies references edit anoto group year end report 2009 pdf . lund sweden anoto group . 2010 . p. 11 . retrieved 2010 04 05 . patent containing mere germ of an idea invalid for lack of enablement pdf . colorado bar association intellectual property newsletter . 2004 11 19 . retrieved 2008 08 23 . schmetterer the honorable jack 2005 12 15 . in re oral f. sekendur pdf . united states bankruptcy court northern district of illinois . archived pdf from the original on 16 september 2008 . retrieved 2008 08 23 . skendur oral f. 1995 12 19 . optical position determination . united states patent 5 477 012 . retrieved 2008 08 23 . external links edit signer beat may 2008 . fundamental concepts for interactive paper and cross media information spaces . beat signer . isbn 3 8370 2713 9 . electronic voting world first . bbc news . 2006 09 27 . retrieved 2006 11 21 . stroud michael 2002 12 22 . digipens search for write market . wired news . archived from the original on 3 january 2007 . retrieved 2006 11 21 . anoto company website innovios limited example of private company using anoto product permanent dead link habitualdata anoto gold partner in spain digital pen corporation anoto gold partner in europe abrahams peter 2010 02 11 . the pen is mightier than the digit . bloorresearch . retrieved 2010 02 19 . the hot new medium paper . wired magazine . 2001 04 01 . retrieved 2010 07 13 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title anoto & oldid 744421163 categories companies of swedencomputing input devicescomputer peripheral companieshidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from october 2016articles with permanently dead external links navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages svenska edit links this page was last modified on 15 october 2016 at 03 11 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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