System for displaying visual content

• US 20080021777A1
• Filed: 04/12/2007
• Published: 01/24/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Illumobil Corporation
• Original Assignee: Illumobile Corporation
• Inventors: Mack, Kevin, Melgiri, Narayan, Wise, Matthew
• Application Number:
  US11/786,384
• Publication Number:
  US 20080021777A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0276 Advertisement creation
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 21/04 by land vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 21/049 giving information to passengers inside the vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/005 Adapting incoming signals to the display format of the display terminal

Abstract

A system for displaying visual content is disclosed. In some embodiments, the system comprises a processor configured to process visual content that is to be displayed, storage couple to the system and adapted to store the visual content, and logic configured to display the visual content.

Claims

1. A display, comprising:

a processor configured to process visual content that is to be displayed on the display;

storage coupled to the display and adapted to store the visual content; and

logic configured to display the visual content.

2. The display of claim 1 wherein the visual content is stored in the storage before being displayed on the display.

3. The display of claim 1 wherein the logic is further configured to display the visual content at a predetermined time for a predetermined duration.

4. The display of claim 1 wherein the logic is further configured to control the operational state of the display.

5. The display of claim 4 wherein the operational state is a mode selected from the group consisting restart, power off, hibernation, standby, and sleep.

6. The display of claim 1 further comprising an interface that couples the display to the Internet.

7. The display of claim 1 wherein the display is segmented into a plurality of visible sections and the logic is further configured to display the visual content in a predetermined section.

8. The display of claim 7 wherein at least one of the visible sections contains television content.

9. The display of claim 7 wherein at least one of visible sections contains advertising content.

10. The display of claim 7 wherein the logic is further configured to monitor a user'"'"'s interaction with the display.

11. A system, comprising:

a digital media creation tool;

a map illustrating the locations of a plurality of display devices; and

an interface that allows users of the system to broadcast content created by the digital media creation tool to the plurality of display devices.

12. The system of claim 11 wherein the digital media creation tool allows users of the system to remix video and resize images.

13. The system of claim 11 wherein the digital media creation tool further comprises a library of images that can be edited with the digital media creation tool.

14. The system of claim 11 wherein the map presents demographic information about each of the locations.

15. The system of claim 11 wherein the interface comprises a database that stores information describing the content.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein the database stores analytic information about each of the locations.

17. The system of claim 11 further comprising a payment system that bills users of the system for broadcasting content to the plurality of display devices.

18. The system of claim 11 further comprising a filter that automatically removes profane content.

19. The system of claim 11 further comprising a database that allows users of the system to share content.

20. The system of claim 19 wherein selected users of the system have rights to edit shared content.