INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND SERVER

• US 20090254419A1
• Filed: 03/26/2009
• Published: 10/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Mochizuki, Hiroki, Ikeda, Yoshihiko
• Application Number:
  US12/411,422
• Publication Number:
  US 20090254419A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0603 Catalogue ordering

Abstract

An information display system includes plural display devices and a server. The plural display devices are arranged in a selling floor space. The display devices include measuring units. The measuring units measure environment characteristics and generate environment information based on results of the measurement. The display devices transmit the generated environment information to the server. The server generates environment distribution information of the selling floor space from the received environment information and position information of the respective display devices. The server distributes the environment distribution information to the respective display devices. The display devices display commodity information and the delivered environment distribution information together.

Claims

1. A checkout system, comprising:

plural display devices including display units that display information, first communication units that perform communication, measuring units that measure environment of a selling floor space and generate environment information, and storing units that store identification codes;

a server including a second communication unit that performs communication and an arrangement-position storing unit that stores identification codes and arrangement positions in the selling floor space of the display devices specified by the identification codes in association with each other;

control units that are included in the display devices and execute processing for causing the first communication units to transmit the identification codes for specifying the display devices and the environment information generated by the measuring units to the server in association with each other and processing for causing the display unit to display environment distribution information of the selling floor space received by the first communication units; and

an information processing unit that is included in the server and generates, referring to the arrangement-position storing unit, the environment distribution information of the selling floor space from the identification codes and the environment information received by the second communication unit and causes the second communication unit to transmit the environment distribution information to the respective display devices.

2. The checkout system of claim 1, wherein the information processing unit of the server generates a control command for controlling to drive an adjusting apparatus and causes the second communication unit to transmit the control command to the adjusting apparatus, the adjusting apparatus adjusting, on the basis of the identification codes and the environment information received by the second communication unit, the environment information to bring the environment of the selling floor space into a desired target state.

3. The checkout system of claim 2, wherein

the information processing unit of the server calculates a difference between power consumption input from a watt-hour meter, which monitors the adjusting apparatus driven according to the control command, and power consumption stored in the storing units in advance as power consumed when the adjusting apparatus is driven against the control command and causes the second communication unit to transmit a CO2 emission reduction amount calculated on the basis of the difference to the respective display devices, and

the control units of the display devices cause the display units to display the CO2 emission reduction amount received by the first communication units.

4. A display device comprising:

a display unit that displays information;

a first communication unit that performs communication;

a measuring unit that measures environment of a selling floor space and generates environment information; and

a control unit that executes processing for causing the first communication unit to transmit an identification code for specifying the display device and the environment information generated by the measuring unit in association with each other and processing for causing the display unit to display environment distribution information of the selling floor space generated on the basis of the transmitted identification code and environment information.

5. The display device of claim 4, wherein the control unit causes the display unit to display a CO2 emission reduction amount received by the first communication unit.

6. A server comprising:

a second communication unit that performs communication;

an arrangement-position storing unit that stores identification codes and arrangement positions in the selling floor space of display devices specified by the identification codes in association with each other; and

an information processing unit that executes processing for generating, referring to the arrangement-position storing unit, environment distribution information of the selling floor space from the identification codes and the environment information transmitted from the respective display devices set in the selling floor space and received by the second communication unit and processing for causing the second communication unit to transmit the environment distribution information to the respective display devices.