Communication service method and communication apparatus thereof

• US 20050171864A1
• Filed: 04/05/2005
• Published: 08/04/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Etsuo Kuroda, Jun Tanaka, Motoki Nakade, Yoshito Shiraishi
• Original Assignee: Etsuo Kuroda, Jun Tanaka, Motoki Nakade, Yoshito Shiraishi
• Inventors: Tanaka, Jun, Shiraishi, Yoshito, Kuroda, Etsuo, Nakade, Motoki
• Granted Patent: US 7,752,078 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/40 Authorisation, e.g. identification of payer or payee, verification of customer or shop credentials; Review and approval of payers, e.g. check credit lines or negative lists
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0253 During e-commerce, i.e. online transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0271 Personalized advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0625 Directed, with specific intent or strategy
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0643 Graphical representation of items or shoppers
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/567 Multimedia conference systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42203 sound input device, e.g. microphone
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44016 involving splicing one content stream with another content stream, e.g. for substituting a video clip
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/00 : Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/265 : Mixing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/142 : Constructional details of the terminal equipment, e.g. arrangements of the camera and the display
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 : Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 : Conference systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 : Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

Each user terminal apparatus is connected with a service business enterprise system by a connection business enterprise system in a state that a live image can mutually be transmitted through the service business enterprise system. An user beforehand sets its live image to be appropriately utilized as an advertisement medium, and chooses selling goods to be advertised. A live image transmitted from the user terminal apparatus of the user who performed the aforesaid setting receives a superposed image, for example, by the superposing the T shirt of the user or the like with the image signal of the selling goods as the advertisement object in the service business enterprise system, and then the processed live image signal is transmitted to the user terminal apparatus of a communication companion. When the communication companion clicks this image signal, the user terminal apparatus of the communication companion is further connected with the sponsor system of the selling goods, and can receive a further explanation of the selling goods and can perform the transactions of the selling goods.

Claims

1-34. -34. (canceled)

35. A communication terminal apparatus utilized by a first user and connected with another communication terminal apparatus utilized by a second user through a communication service apparatus, said communication terminal apparatus utilized by said first user performs mutual telephone calling with the communication terminal apparatus utilized by said second user, each of the communication terminal apparatuses comprising:

telephone calling means for performing telephone calling between said communication terminal apparatuses;

image data superposing means for superposing a first image data with a second image data of one or more products to generate a third image data, said second image being promoted by the arbitrary communication terminal apparatus utilized by said first user to the arbitrary communication terminal apparatus utilized by a second user;

receiving means for receiving said third image data generated by superposing said first image data from one of the communication terminal apparatuses and said second image data concerning one or more products and predetermined control data, said third image data and said control data being transmitted from the communication service apparatus;

displaying means for displaying the received third image data;

position designating means for designating an arbitrary position on said displayed third image data; and

controlling means for performing predetermined processing based on the received control data when the designated position is on a part of said second image data.

36. The communication terminal apparatus utilized by said first user according to claim 35, wherein

said controlling means demands more information of said one or more products or an environment concerning performing transactions of said one or more products relating to said communication service apparatus when said part of said second image data is designated.

37. The communication terminal apparatus utilized by said first user according to claim 35, wherein

said controlling means demands more information of said one or more products or an environment concerning performing transactions of said one or more products relating to another communication service apparatus when said part of said second image data is designated.

38. The communication terminal apparatus utilized by said first user according to claim 37, wherein

said receiving means receives information of a replying result to said demand transmitted from the other communication service apparatus concerning related to said one or more products;

and

said displaying means displays the information of received said replying result.

39. The communication terminal apparatus utilized by said first user according to claim 38, wherein,

a processing concerning said information from said other communication service apparatus in said receiving means and said displaying means is done practically at the same time when a processing concerning the other communication terminal apparatus connected through said communication service apparatus is performed.

40. A communication system including a plurality of communication terminal apparatus utilized by at least a first and a second user and a communication service apparatus for connecting said plurality of communication terminal apparatus in order to transmit audio signals and image signals, wherein

said communication service apparatus comprises:

receiving means for receiving a first image signal that was received from one of said plurality of communication terminal apparatus;

image signal superposing means for superposing the received first image signal with a second image signal concerning one or more products to generate a third image signal, said second image being promoted by the arbitrary communication terminal apparatus utilized by said first user to the arbitrary communication terminal apparatus utilized by a second user; and

transmitting means for transmitting said third image signal to said second user of said one of said plurality of communication terminal apparatus; and

said communication terminal apparatus comprises;

receiving means for receiving said third image data received by another of said plurality of communication terminal apparatus and transmitted from said communication service apparatus; and

displaying means for displaying the received third image data.

41. An advertisement propagandizing method in a communication environment in which a plurality of communication terminal apparatus utilized by at least a first and a second user are connected in a state in which audio signals and image signals can be transmitted, said advertisement propagandizing method comprising the steps of:

selecting one or more products as a desired advertisement propaganda object by said first user of one of said plurality of communication terminal apparatus;

superposing a first image signal received by said one of said plurality of communication terminal apparatus of said first user with a second image signal utilized by said second user of said selected one or more products as said advertisement propaganda object to generate a third image signal, said second image being promoted by the arbitrary communication terminal apparatus utilized by said first user to the arbitrary communication terminal apparatus utilized by a second user; and

delivering said third image signal including said second image signal to said second user of said one of said plurality of communication terminal apparatus.

42. The advertisement propagandizing method according to claim 41, wherein said first image signal received from said one of said plurality of communication terminal apparatus includes an image of said first user of said one of said plurality of communication terminal apparatus.

43. The advertisement propagandizing method according to claim 42, wherein:

said first image signal received from said one of said plurality of communication terminal apparatus is superposed with said second image signal of the one or more products so that said third image data includes an image in which said first user of said one of said plurality of communication terminal apparatus is superposed on the one or more products, uses the one or more products or holds the one or more products that are generated.

44. The advertisement propagandizing method according to claim 41, wherein:

more detailed information of said one or more products or a transaction environment of the one or more products is supplied to said one of said plurality of communication terminal apparatus to which said third image signal is delivered in response to a demand from said one of said plurality of communication terminal apparatus utilized by said second user.

45. The advertisement propagandizing method according to claim 41, wherein:

consideration is paid to said first user of said one of said plurality of communication terminal apparatus to which said third image signal is delivered based on a predetermined condition concerning the delivery of said third image signal of the one or more products.

46. The advertisement propagandizing method according to claim 41, wherein:

said third image signal including an image of said one or more products is selectively delivered to said one of said plurality of communication terminal apparatus depending on the first and second user thereof.