SPACECRAFT ADVERTISEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS

• US 20090099923A1
• Filed: 09/24/2008
• Published: 04/16/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jesse D. Koenig
• Original Assignee: Jesse D. Koenig
• Inventors: Koenig, Jesse D.
• Application Number:
  US12/237,240
• Publication Number:
  US 20090099923A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.51
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0253 During e-commerce, i.e. online transactions

Abstract

A spacecraft is deployed in outer-space and an advertisement is displayed on the spacecraft. This provides the advertisement with an outer space background that can be recorded by equipment on the spacecraft, and then displayed at a terrestrial location.

Claims

1. An advertising method, comprising:

deploying a spacecraft in an outer space location, wherein the spacecraft includes a display screen and a camera having a field of view that may include at least a portion of the display screen and at least a portion of an outer space environment of the spacecraft;

displaying an advertisement on the display screen;

recording the camera'"'"'s field of view to obtain an image of the advertisement and the outer space environment;

transmitting the image to a terrestrial location; and

displaying the image at a terrestrial location.

2. A method as in claim 1, wherein the image comprises a static image.

3. A method as in claim 1, wherein the image comprises a video image.

4. A method as in claim 1, wherein the image is transmitted in real time as the image is recorded.

5. A method as in claim 1, further comprising storing the image at a location local to the spacecraft and then transmitting the stored image to the terrestrial location.

6. A method as in claim 1, wherein the camera records the display screen and outer space environment at a reduced frame rate, and further comprising displaying the camera'"'"'s recording at a frame rate that is greater than the reduced frame rate.

7. A method as in claim 6, further comprising displaying a video advertisement in slow motion while the camera records the display screen at a reduced frame rate, such that when the camera'"'"'s recording is played back at a rate greater than that at which it was recorded, the video advertisement appears in real-time.

8. A method as in claim 1, wherein the outer space location is an orbit around the Earth.

9. A method as in claim 1, wherein the outer space location is an orbit around a non-Earth astronomical body.

10. A method as in claim 1, wherein the outer space location is the surface of a non-Earth astronomical body.

11. A method as in claim 1, wherein the outer space location is interplanetary space.