Presentation System

• US 20070256017A1
• Filed: 08/31/2005
• Published: 11/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Uchida YOKO Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Uchida YOKO Company Limited
• Inventors: Nishimura, Yoshiaki, Iwamasa, Ryuichi, Hirayama, Nobuhiko
• Granted Patent: US 7,886,980 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/730
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/005 Input arrangements through a video camera
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/00 Information and communication technology [ICT] specially adapted for implementation of business processes of specific business sectors, e.g. utilities or tourism healthcare informatics G16H
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 27/00 Combined visual and audible advertising or displaying, e.g. for public address

Abstract

A presentation system can effectively present an exhibit as an exhibition content to a viewer. According to the present invention, in order to perform an effective presentation in a presentation space, an icon 2 that symbolically represents a presentation subject and has identification information thereof stored in a non-contact IC tag, a presentation table 3, a display apparatus 4 and a content display control apparatus 5 are basically provided, and when the icon is placed on the presentation table, the identification information stored in the tag of the icon is read, and the control apparatus 5 displays a content associated with that information on the display apparatus 4.

Claims

1-16. -16. (canceled)

17. A presentation system comprising:

a designation member in the form of a cubic object made of a translucent resin in which a display article representing the presentation subject is encapsulated having a non-contact IC tag being attached to a bottom surface thereof;

a database in which information about the presentation subject associated with the identification information held in the designation member is stored in advance;

a presentation table having a table plate on which said designation member can be placed and non-contact IC tag data reading means that reads, when the designation member is placed on the table plate, the identification information of the presentation subject from the non-contact IC tag of the designation member in a state of not contacting with the non-contact IC tag; and

a content display control apparatus that reads out information about the presentation subject associated with the identification information read by the non-contact IC tag data reading means from the database and displays it on a display apparatus.

20. A presentation system according to claim 17, wherein at least a part of said table plate is made of a translucent material, and said display apparatus comprises a display screen disposed on a backside surface of the table plate.

21. A presentation system according to claim 17, characterized in that a screen is formed on said table plate and a projection apparatus for projecting an image on the screen disposed above the table.

23. A presentation system according to claim 17, characterized by a content server disposed in a network, wherein the content display control apparatus reads out information about the presentation subject associated with the identification information read by the non-contact tag data reading means from the content server and displays it on a display apparatus.

24. A presentation system according to claim 17 characterized by a sound reproducing apparatus, wherein sound information about the presentation subject associated with the identification information held by the designation member is stored in said database in advance, and said sound reproducing apparatus reads out the sound information about the presentation subject associated with the identification information read by the non-contact tag data reading means from the database and reproduces it by a speaker.

25. A presentation system according to claim 20, characterized in that said table plate is made of a smoke glass and its backside surface comprises a translucent screen attached thereto, and an image is projected onto the screen from a projector.

26. A presentation system according to claim 17 characterized in that said presentation table is a counter table for face-to-face sales of an article for sale, and said designation member has a display representing the article for sale as the presentation subject.

27. A presentation system according to claim 23, characterized in that a plurality of said presentation tables are prepared, the presentation tables being placed in different places, a plurality of said designation members are prepared, contents associated with the respective designation members are stored in a content server, and a user picks up one of the designation members and visits presentation tables placed in a plurality of places.

28. A presentation system according to claim 27, characterized in that said plurality of designation members have ID information that makes it possible to distinguish the designation members from one another, a usage history registry portion that records information that specifies at least a presentation table at which said designation member has been used is provided in some portion of the system, and at a next presentation table at which the user uses said designation member, the content display control apparatus reads out usage history information from said usage history information registry portion and changes a content to be displayed on a display according to the usage history of the past.

29. A presentation system according to claim 28, characterized in that said content server gives certain continuity to contents that change according to the usage history of the designation member in order to give a storyline to the whole displayed content that are offered through visitations at a plurality of presentation tables.

30. A presentation system according to claim 27 characterized in that user information registry means for storing user information is provided, and the user information registry means is provided with point awarding means that deposits a point for each user every time the user visits said plurality of presentation tables.

31. A presentation system according to claim 30 characterized in that as user information, at least one of information specifying a presentation table visited in the past, information specifying a content viewed in the past, the date and time of visitation at the presentation table and the date and time of viewing of the content is recorded together with information specifying the user.

32. A presentation system according to claim 17 further comprising an exhibition changing apparatus that performs a control to change at least one of an exhibition equipment and an exhibit disposed in the surrounding of the presentation table upon detection of said designation member as a trigger.

18. A presentation system comprising:

a designation member having a non-contact IC tag that holds identification information of a presentation subject and a display representing the presentation subject;

a database in which information about the presentation subject associated with the identification information held in the designation member is stored in advance;

a presentation table having a table plate on which said designation member can be placed, and an antenna for reading the identification information of the presentation subject provided along an outer peripheral edge of said table plate, and non-contact IC tag data reading means that reads, when the designation member is placed on an outer peripheral portion of the table plate, the identification information of the presentation subject from the non-contact IC tag of the designation member in a state of not contacting with the non-contact IC tag; and

a content display control apparatus that reads out information about the presentation subject associated with the identification information read by the non-contact IC tag data reading means from the database and displays it on a display apparatus.

33. A presentation system according to claim 18 further comprising an exhibition changing apparatus that performs a control to change at least one of an exhibition equipment and an exhibit disposed in the surrounding of the presentation table upon detection of said designation member as a trigger.

19. A presentation system comprising:

a designation member having a non-contact IC tag that holds identification information of a presentation subject and a display representing the presentation subject;

a database in which information about the presentation subject associated with the identification information held in the designation member is stored in advance;

a presentation table having a table plate on which said designation member can be placed and non-contact IC tag data reading means that reads, when the designation member is placed on the table plate, the identification information of the presentation subject from the non-contact IC tag of the designation member in a state of not contacting with the non-contact IC tag;

a content display control apparatus that reads out information about the presentation subject associated with the identification information read by the non-contact IC tag data reading means from the database and displays it on a display apparatus; and

a panel that displays a plurality of presentation subjects and has a portion for exhibiting said designation member provided in the vicinity of the display apparatus.

22. A presentation system according to claim 19, characterized in that the presentation subject displayed in said designation member is displayed in said display panel, and presentation by display on a display using the designation member is interrelated with display on the display panel.

34. A presentation system according to claim 19 further comprising an exhibition changing apparatus that performs a control to change at least one of an exhibition equipment and an exhibit disposed in the surrounding of the presentation table upon detection of said designation member as a trigger.