METHOD OF ALLOCATING ADVERTISING SPACE AND SYSTEM THEREFOR

• US 20090084045A1
• Filed: 12/05/2008
• Published: 04/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Andrew Winton
• Original Assignee: Andrew Winton
• Inventors: Winton, Andrew
• Application Number:
  US12/329,446
• Publication Number:
  US 20090084045A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 52/105
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 19/22 Advertising or display means on roads, walls or similar surfaces, e.g. illuminated
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 21/06 by aeroplanes, airships, balloons, or kites

Abstract

A system for the application of an image to an upper surface of a built structure, the image arranged for visibility from over-flying craft. An upper surface of a built structure incorporating indicia thereon or therein; the indicia constructed so as to be discernable by observers in craft passing over the built structure when the craft is within a predetermined legibility distance of the built structure.

Claims

1. A built structure having an upward facing surface;

said built structure supporting an image;

said image arranged for visibility from overflying craft, wherein the image comprises an array of at least one of colored panels, segments, dots, and pixels applied by an applicator provided with digital control means and wherein revenue is calculated as a function of a determined legibility distance and angles of a smallest discrete detail of the image calculated via computer modeling, scaling, and spatial rotation of said image and wherein the revenue is further derived by

procuring signage rights to the upward facing surface;

offering to a third party the upward facing surface as a platform for the image for a determined time; and

procuring application of the image to the upward facing surface via the applicator and digital control means so as to be observable from the overflying craft within the determined legibility distance and angles.

2. The built structure of claim 1 wherein said determined legibility distance is in the range 100-2,000 feet.

3. The built structure of claim 1 wherein said determined legibility distance is in the range 100-10,000 feet.

4. The built structure of claim 1 wherein said determined legibility distance is in the range 30,000-40,000 feet.

5. The built structure of claim 1 wherein said built structure comprises a roof.

6. The built structure of claim 1 wherein said built structure comprises a pontoon.

7. The built structure of claim 1, wherein the revenue is further derived as a function of a number of craft flying through a cone of legibility defined by the determined legibility distance and angles within a given period of time.

8. The built structure of claim 1, wherein the image is displayed for a determined time at a determined revenue rate calculated as a function of the determined legibility distance and angles of the smallest discrete detail.

9. The built structure of claim 1, wherein the legibility of the smallest discrete detail is discernable to an identifiable number of viewers within a given period within a cone of legibility defined by the determined legibility distance and angles.

10. The built structure of claim 9, wherein the cone of legibility is calculated substantially as an inverted conical section of a sphere wherein a generator of the sphere is equal to the legibility distance of the smallest discrete detail and wherein the conical section of the sphere corresponds to the determined angles of legibility.