Enhancing Touch and Feel on the Internet

• US 20090055289A1
• Filed: 08/20/2007
• Published: 02/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Scott C Harris
• Original Assignee: Scott C Harris
• Inventors: Harris, Scott C.
• Granted Patent: US 8,086,505 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/27
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2111/02 CAD in a network environment, e.g. collaborative CAD or distributed simulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2113/20 Packaging, e.g. boxes or containers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/23 using finite element methods [FEM] or finite difference methods [FDM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• 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 30/0603 Catalogue ordering
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0623 Item investigation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0643 Graphical representation of items or shoppers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23412 for generating or manipulating the scene composition of objects, e.g. MPEG-4 objects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44012 involving rendering scenes according to scene graphs, e.g. MPEG-4 scene graphs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A system for enabling touch and feel over the internet provides a three-dimensional representation of a good being sold, that three-dimensional representation being viewable from a number of different directions. In one embodiment, the good being sold is in a package and the package is displayed from the number of different directions. Another embodiment has the good being a book, and the inside and outside covers of the book are displayed and specified pages of the book can be displayed. The user can read from either the label or the covers just like as if the were actually handling the good.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

displaying information about a video which is for sale over the Internet on a user'"'"'s computer;

displaying packaging for the video on the user'"'"'s computer, where the packaging is shown in three dimensions, said packaging including shape and color of the video package;

On the user'"'"'s computer, enabling the packaging to be viewed from a plurality of different angles of viewing, where said angles collectively enable reading each of the labels on each surface of the packaging including a front surface, a rear surface and at least one side surface; and

on the user'"'"'s computer, displaying the packaging at a resolution that allows reading each of the labels on the packaging, and viewing the product from said plurality of different angles; and

allowing the user to subsequently purchase the video over the internet, from the user'"'"'s computer.

2. A method, comprising:

displaying a music item which is for sale over the Internet on a user'"'"'s computer;

displaying packaging for the music item On the user'"'"'s computer, where the packaging is shown in three dimensions, said packaging including shape and color of the music package;

On the user'"'"'s computer, enabling the packaging to be viewed from a plurality of different angles of viewing, where said angles collectively enable reading each of the labels on each surface of the packaging including a front surface, a rear surface and at least one side surface; and

on the user'"'"'s computer, displaying the packaging at a resolution that allows reading each of the labels on the packaging, and viewing the product from said plurality of different angles; and

allowing the user to subsequently purchase the music item over the internet, from the user'"'"'s computer.

3. A method as in claim 2, wherein said product information includes liner notes for the music item.

4. A method as in claim 2, wherein said product information includes lengths of songs on the music item.

5. A method as in claim 2, wherein said product information includes band members who made the music item.

6. A method as in claim 2, wherein said product information includes song lyrics of songs that are on the music item.

7. A method as in claim 2, further comprising storing the packaging having a different resolution for readable parts than for images.

8. A method as in claim 2, further comprising a special navigation key that enables opening the box to see the product inside.

15. A method as in claim 8, further comprising enabling zooming in to see a specified part.

19. A method as in claim 6, further comprising at least one special key, other than said navigation keys, which commands opening the box.

9. A method, comprising:

displaying a product for sale on a user'"'"'s computer, such that a package of the product can be seen from a plurality of different angles including front of the product, back of the product, top of the product and at least multiple sides of the product;

providing movement keys which allow the user to see the product for each of said multiple sides;

providing another movement key, which enables virtual opening of the package, and enables viewing an item within the product within the package.

10. A method as in claim 9, wherein said product is displayed as a true three-dimensional image.

11. A method as in claim 9, wherein said product is displayed using a plurality of different discrete images which simulate a three-dimensional image.

12. A method as in claim 9, further comprising storing images of pictures, and images of text, and where the images of text are stored in a different resolution than the images of pictures.

13. A method as in claim 9, further comprising enabling the user to purchase said product.

14. A method as in claim 9, further comprising enabling a product purchaser to read text on an outside of the product.

16. A method, comprising:

Three dimensionally defining an item for sale;

defining a plurality of HTML pages, each HTML page representing said item for sale from a different viewpoint;

at least one of said HTML pages including text at a resolution that can be read from the image;

at least one of said HTML pages including non-textual image portions, having a different resolution than said text; and

providing at least one navigation key, that allows a user to navigate between the different HTML pages, to see the item from said different viewpoints.

17. A method as in claim 16, further comprising another HTML page that provides a view of an inside of a packaging including the product.

18. A method as in claim 17, wherein said another HTML page comprises a virtual opening of a box to see a product inside.