Methods, systems, and media for controlling information used to present content on a public display device

• US 10,594,777 B2
• Filed: 05/07/2018
• Issued: 03/17/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Brune, Kevin, Liu, Eric H C
• Primary Examiner(s): Salad, Abdullahi E
• Application Number:
  US15/972,936
• Publication Number:
  US 20180255126A1
• Time in Patent Office: 680 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1698 the I/O peripheral being a sending/receiving arrangement to establish a cordless communication link, e.g. radio or infrared link, integrated cellular phone details of antennas disposed inside a computer H01Q1/2266
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/06 including a wireless LAN interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/139 Format conversion, e.g. of frame-rate or size
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/341 using temporal multiplexing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2013/40 Privacy aspects, i.e. devices showing different images to different viewers, the images not being viewpoints of the same scene
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41415 involving a public display, viewable by several users in a public space outside their home, e.g. movie theatre, information kiosk
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

Methods, systems, and media for controlling information utilized to present content using a public display device are provided. In some implementations a method for presenting content on a public display device is provided, the method comprising: (a) initiating communication with one or more display devices; (b) selecting a display device; (c) establishing a communication channel with the selected display device; (d) receiving information related to an area of a screen allocated for use by the user device; (e) identifying content that is to be presented using the selected display device; (f) generating formatted content based on the area of the screen allocated for use by the user device; (g) transmitting the formatted content to the display device using the communication channel; and repeating at least (e) to (g) until (h) determining that presentation of content using the selected display device is to be inhibited.

Claims

1. A method for presenting content on display devices, the method comprising:

(a) initiating, using a hardware processor of a user device, communication with a plurality of display devices;

(b) selecting a display device of the plurality of display devices based on locations of the plurality of display devices and a location of the user device, wherein selecting the display device comprises identifying the display device likely to be visible to a user of the user device based on the locations of the plurality of display devices, the location of the user device, and a detected direction of movement of the user device;

(c) establishing a communication channel with the selected display device;

(d) receiving information related to an area of a screen of the selected display device that is allocated for the user device;

(e) identifying content that is to be presented using the selected display device based on a location of the selected display device;

(f) generating formatted content from the content that is to be presented based on the area of the screen allocated for the user device; and

(g) transmitting the formatted content to the display device using the communication channel.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

repeating at least (e) to (g) until (h) determining that presentation of content using the selected display device is to be inhibited; and

(i) causing an indication that presentation of the content using the selected display device has been inhibited to be presented on the user device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein establishing the communication channel with the selected display device comprises establishing a Bluetooth connection with the selected display device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein establishing the communication channel with the selected display device comprises establishing a Wi-Fi connection with the selected display device without establishing a Wi-Fi connection with an intermediary device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein determining that presentation of content using the selected display device is to be inhibited comprises determining that the communication channel has been disconnected.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, from the selected display device, information related to presentation of the formatted content by the selected display device; and

performing an action based on the information related to presentation of the formatted by the selected display device.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the information related to presentation of the formatted content includes information related to a frequency at which frames including the formatted content are to be presented by the selected display device and synchronization information, and wherein the action is setting a viewing device associated with the user to the frequency based on the synchronization information.

8. A system for presenting content on display devices, the system comprising:

a user device comprising a hardware processor that is programmed to;

(a) initiate communication with a plurality of display devices;

(b) select a display device of the plurality of display devices based on locations of the plurality of display devices and a location of the user device, wherein selecting the display device comprises identifying the display device likely to be visible to a user of the user device based on the locations of the plurality of display devices, the location of the user device, and a detected direction of movement of the user device;

(c) establish a communication channel with the selected display device;

(d) receive information related to an area of a screen of the selected display device that is allocated for the user device;

(e) identify content that is to be presented using the selected display device based on a location of the selected display device;

(f) generate formatted content from the content that is to be presented based on the area of the screen allocated for the user device; and

(g) transmit the formatted content to the display device using the communication channel.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the hardware processor is further programmed to:

repeat at least (e) to (g) until (h) determine that presentation of content using the selected display device is to be inhibited; and

(i) cause an indication that presentation of the content using the selected display device has been inhibited to be presented on the user device.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein establishing the communication channel with the selected display device comprises establishing a Bluetooth connection with the selected display device.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein establishing the communication channel with the selected display device comprises establishing a Wi-Fi connection with the selected display device without establishing a Wi-Fi connection with an intermediary device.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein determining that presentation of content using the selected display device is to be inhibited comprises determining that the communication channel has been disconnected.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the hardware processor is further programmed to:

receive, from the selected display device, information related to presentation of the formatted content by the selected display device; and

perform an action based on the information related to presentation of the formatted by the selected display device.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the information related to presentation of the formatted content includes information related to a frequency at which frames including the formatted content are to be presented by the selected display device and synchronization information, and wherein the action is setting a viewing device associated with the user to the frequency based on the synchronization information.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing computer executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method for presenting content on display devices, the method comprising:

(a) initiating communication with one or more display devices;

(b) selecting a display device of the plurality of display devices based on locations of the plurality of display devices and a location of the user device, wherein selecting the display device comprises identifying the display device likely to be visible to a user of the user device based on the locations of the plurality of display devices, the location of the user device, and a detected direction of movement of the user device;

(c) establishing a communication channel with the selected display device;

(d) receiving information related to an area of a screen of the selected display device that is allocated for use by a user device;

(e) identifying content that is to be presented using the selected display device based on a location of the selected display device;

(f) generating formatted content from the content that is to be presented based on the area of the screen allocated for use by the user device; and

(g) transmitting the formatted content to the display device using the communication channel.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the method further comprises:

repeating at least (e) to (g) until (h) determining that presentation of content using the selected display device is to be inhibited; and

(i) causing an indication that presentation of the content using the selected display device has been inhibited to be presented on the user device.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein establishing the communication channel with the selected display device comprises establishing a Bluetooth connection with the selected display device.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein establishing the communication channel with the selected display device comprises establishing a Wi-Fi connection with the selected display device without establishing a Wi-Fi connection with an intermediary device.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein determining that presentation of content using the selected display device is to be inhibited comprises determining that the communication channel has been disconnected.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving, from the selected display device, information related to presentation of the formatted content by the selected display device; and

performing an action based on the information related to presentation of the formatted by the selected display device.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 20, wherein the information related to presentation of the formatted content includes information related to a frequency at which frames including the formatted content are to be presented by the selected display device and synchronization information, and wherein the action is setting a viewing device associated with the user to the frequency based on the synchronization information.