System for presenting and controlling information on a display device

• US 20060167990A1
• Filed: 10/24/2003
• Published: 07/27/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Immediad ApS
• Original Assignee: Immediad ApS
• Inventors: Mobius, Nikolaj Friis, Tobiasen, Max Kim
• Application Number:
  US10/532,062
• Publication Number:
  US 20060167990A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 9/33 being semiconductor devices, e.g. diodes
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/005 forming an image using a quickly moving array of imaging elements, causing the human eye to perceive an image which has a larger resolution than the array, e.g. an image on a cylinder formed by a rotating line of LEDs parallel to the axis of rotation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2223 being a public access point, e.g. for downloading to or uploading from clients arrangements specially adapted to plural spots in a confined site in broadcast systems H04H20/63
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system (34) and a display (10), particularly a display (10) that is updated via a means of transferring data from a central server (32) to the display (10) using a wireless technology (30, 18) and that comprises a rotary member (12, 13) with light emitting diodes rotating about an axis thereby providing an image.

Claims

1. A system for presenting and controlling information on a display device and comprising a server, a wireless gateway and said display device having a wireless module communicating with the server through the wireless gateway, and said server is adapted to update information presented on the display device through the wireless gateway.

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein the display device comprises a rotary member with a plurality of light emitting diodes of at least two colours arranged such that pairs of light emitting diodes of different colours will pass through the same global point on the display once every revolution of the rotary member, and a processing unit able to control the light emitting diodes, such that the processing unit can create the impression of a global point of a chosen colour created by modulating the intensity of the light emitting diodes of different colour when they pas through said global point.

3. A system according to claim 1, furthermore comprising a mobile device able to communicate with the server through the wireless gateway.

4. A system according to claim 3, wherein the mobile device is adapted to update the display device with said information by communicating with the server through the wireless gateway.

5. A system according to claim 1, wherein the wireless gateway operated in accordance with GMS, GPRS, UMTS, 802.11b, bluetooth, I-mode, or any combination thereof.

6. A system according to claim 1, further comprising one or more display devices, and wherein the server is adapted to multicast said information to the one or more display devices substantially simultaneously using the wireless gateway.

7. A system according to claim 1, wherein said information contains a text, a sound, an image, or audio-recording, a series of images, or any combination thereof.

8. A system according to claim 1, wherein the system is adapted to group the one or more display devices according to the parameters set for each of the one or more display devices so as to display specific information for each group of the one or more display devices.

9. A system according to claim 1, wherein the server and the display device is connected to a communications network such as a wired or wireless dedicated line, local area network, metropolitan area network, wide area network, the Internet, or any combination thereof, so as to enable communication between the server and the display device.

10. A system according to claim 9 further comprising a computer connected to the communications network and comprising a program for controlling the display device through the server.

11. A system according to claim 10, wherein said computer program comprises a transforming procedure adapted to transform said information from Cartesian to polar coordinates.

12. A system according to claim 10, wherein said server is adapted to store and execute said computer program.

13. A system according to claim 1, wherein said information is accessible by said display device utilizing a vector-based accessing format.

14. A system according to claim 1, wherein the system is adapted to request a user payment for displaying information on the display device.

15. A system according to claim 14, wherein the payment is performed with a credit card.

16. A system according to claim 1, wherein the system is adapted to charge a mobile device for communicating with the server.

17. A system according to claim 16, wherein the charge is carried out using overtaxed text message.

18. A system according to claim 1, wherein a mobile device is adapted to send a message to the server, which message comprises an unique ID tag for the display device.

19. A system according to claim 8, wherein the grouping is based on demographic information, such as location, average age, gender.

20. A system according to claim 19, wherein the demographic information is collected from the mobile device communicating with the server.

21. A system according to claim 3, wherein the mobile device provides configuration information to the server sorting the configuration information according to the ID tag of each display device.

22. A system according to claim 3, wherein said server is adapted to identify said mobile device, when said mobile device interacts with said display device through said server, and is adapted to generate a user profile for said mobile device.

23. A system according to claim 2, wherein said display device further comprises a recording device located on said rotary member for recording user interaction in a touch sensitive area.

24. A system according to claim 23, wherein said recording device comprises one or more sensors, the sensors being location so that each sensor is placed at a different length from a centre of rotation of the rotary member.

25. A system according to claim 24, wherein said one or more sensors are placed at regular intervals on the rotary member from the centre of rotation, to the edge.

26. A system according to claim 24, wherein said recording device further comprises a central processor adapted to receive input from said one or more sensors.

27. A system according to claim 26, wherein said central processor is adapted to hold information enabling said central processor to calculate the exact angle of a revolution of an associated rotating member in any specific point in time.

28. A system according to claim 26, wherein said central processor is adapted to perform an action when an object is in the vicinity of said one or more sensors, said action being based on which global point on the display device the object is in the vicinity of.

29. A system according to claim 24, wherein said one or more sensors are magnetic sensors registering changed in the magnetic field.

30. A system according to claim 24, wherein said one or more sensors are acoustic sensors registering changes in sound volume or modulation.

31. A system according to claim 24, wherein said one or more sensors are light sensors registering changes in light intensity.

32. A system according to claim 2, wherein said rotary member is fixated at one of it'"'"'s distal ends to a rotation axle.

33. A system according to claim 2, wherein said rotary member is fixated at its centre point to a rotation axle having said plurality of light emitting diodes placed on each side of said centre point.

34. A system according to claim 2, wherein said rotary member comprises a longitudinal cross-sectional profile formed to illustrate when rotating a specific shape such as a bottle, a house, a glass, or a car.

35. A system according to claim 2, wherein said rotary member comprises a semicircular longitudinal cross-sectional profile thereby when rotating said rotary member generating a spherical viewing surface.

36. A system according to claim 35, wherein said server comprises a zooming function operable to zoom in on said information presented on said rotary member generating the spherical viewing surface.

37. A system according to claim 2, wherein said rotary member comprises a longitudinal cross-sectional profile being an open-sided triangular, an open-sided square, a semi-elliptical, or any combination thereof.

38. A system according to claim 1, wherein said server comprises a web-based search engine enabling computers connecting to said server through said communication network searches for a specific display device according to searching parameters, such as geographic or demographic data, and enabling said computers to request information to be forwarded to a selected display device.

39. A system according to claim 1, wherein said server is adapted to calculate a price for providing said information on said display device in accordance with an assessment of number of viewers at said display device.

40. A system according to claim 39, further comprising a counter for counting a number of viewers at said display device, which counter is operable to provide a count value on reception of a sensor signal from a sensor such as a camera, microphone, infrared sensor, or pressure sensor, and said server performing said assessment on the basis of said count value.

41. A system according to claim 40, wherein said server is adapted to store said sensor signal in a searchable database and to perform a comparison of said sensor signal with content of said searchable database.

42. A system according to claim 1, further comprises a connection for linking to a peripheral equipment such as a cash register.

43. A display device comprising a rotary member with a plurality of light emitting diodes of at least two colours arranged such that pairs of light emitting diodes of different colours will pass through the same global point on the display once every revolution of the rotary member, and a processing unit able to control the light emitting diodes, such that the processing unit can create the impression of a global point of a chosen colour created by modulating the intensity of the light emitting diodes of different colour when they pass through said global point.

44. (canceled)