Messsage supply system

• US 20040063443A1
• Filed: 10/15/2003
• Published: 04/01/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: IHI Aerospace Company Limited (IHI Corporation)
• Original Assignee: IHI Aerospace Company Limited (IHI Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamanaka, Tsutomu
• Application Number:
  US10/450,503
• Publication Number:
  US 20040063443A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/458
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/18502 Airborne stations

Abstract

A message supply system in which a sender, a database, a spacecraft, a spacecraft tracking control device and a recipient are interconnected via a communication network, a message of the sender is stored in at least one of the spacecraft navigating while being acquired in position by the tracking control device and the database on the earth, and the message stored in the spacecraft or the database is supplied to the recipient together with details and positional data of the spacecraft at a date designated by the sender. According to the message supply system, it becomes possible to supplying various kinds of messages such as an image and an animation (a memorial message for a birthday or so, a message for praying health recovery, a message for affectionate expression such as a proposal, a message concerning a will or the past course of life) to the recipient including the sender him/herself by designating the date and the number of times, and possible to designate the shape, the flight path, the launching date and the like of the spacecraft charged with the message.

Claims

1. (Amended) A message supply system wherein a sender, a database, a spacecraft, a spacecraft tracking control device, and a recipient are interconnected via a communication network, a message of the sender is stored in the spacecraft navigating while being acquired in position by the tracking control device, and the message stored in the spacecraft is supplied to the recipient together with details and positional data of the spacecraft at a date designated by the sender.

2. A message supply system according to claim 1, wherein a message sent from the sender via the communication network is supplied as the message of the sender.

3. A message supply system according to claim 2, wherein the message sent from the sender via the communication network to which a flight image of the spacecraft and/or a space body image photographed by the spacecraft is attached is supplied as the message of the sender.

4. A message supply system according to claim 3, wherein an album made by accumulating the flight image of the spacecraft and/or the space body image photographed by the spacecraft in the database is attached to the message sent from the sender via the communication network.

5. A message supply system wherein a sender, a database, a spacecraft capable of forming a visual message, a spacecraft tracking control device, and a recipient are interconnected via a communication network, specified details of the visual message sent from the sender via the communication network are stored in at least one of the spacecraft navigating while being acquired in position by the tracking control device and the database on the earth, and the visual message desired by the sender is formed in accordance with the specified details of the visual message stored in the spacecraft or the database at a date designated by the sender and at a place where the sender and/or the recipient can visually recognize.

6. A message supply system according to claim 5, wherein the visual message is a luminous phenomenon such as aurora or an artificial shooting star generated by the spacecraft.

7. A message supply system according to claim 5, wherein the visual message is a character string or a picture formed by selectively flashing a plurality of emitters provided to the spacecraft.

8. A message supply system according to claim 5, wherein the visual message is a character string or a picture formed by applying sunlight on a plurality of reflectors provided to the spacecraft and selectively reflecting the sunlight from the reflectors.

9. A message supply system according to claim 5, wherein the visual message is a character string or a picture formed by causing spacecrafts having a luminous function to fly in a formation.

10. A message supply system according to any one of claims 7 to 9, wherein an image of a character string or a picture is supplied as the visual message to the recipient via the communication network.

11. A message supply system according to claim 5, wherein the visual message is a character string or a picture formed by scanning a laser beam on a display panel provided to the spacecraft.

12. A message supply system according to claim 5, wherein the visual message is a character string or a picture formed by applying sunlight on a display panel provided to the spacecraft.

13. A message supply system according to claim 5, wherein the visual message is a character string or a picture formed by applying a laser beam radiated from the spacecraft or sunlight reflected from the spacecraft on a reflector.