Customized Vehicle Body

• US 20110066324A1
• Filed: 09/15/2009
• Published: 03/17/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: I-Dezignz, LLC
• Original Assignee: David Odland, Kathryn Odland
• Inventors: Odland, David, Odland, Kathryn
• Granted Patent: US 8,421,811 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/36
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/26 the devices being primarily intended to indicate the vehicle, or parts thereof, or to give signals, to other traffic
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 13/04 External Ornamental or guard strips; Ornamental inscriptive devices thereon fastening strips or bars to sheets or plates by means of clips F16B5/12
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 21/04 by land vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 27/00 Combined visual and audible advertising or displaying, e.g. for public address
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 9/33 being semiconductor devices, e.g. diodes
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 9/335 being organic light emitting diodes [OLED]

Abstract

This invention relates to a system and method for customizing the appearance of a vehicle. Users can display customized designs, colors or promotional information on the vehicle for free or on a fee basis. The system also allows users to use a detection device to detect the colors or patterns of other objects and then display substantially the same color or pattern on the vehicle.

Claims

1. A system for displaying customized content on a vehicle, comprising:

a. A vehicle having an exterior surface;

b. A control unit (CU);

c. Memory;

d. A display;

e. An Input/Output (I/O) unit; and

f. A power unit;

Wherein the display shows the customized content.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the memory is integrated within the CU.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the I/O unit is integrated within the CU.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein both the memory and the I/O unit are integrated within the CU.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the I/O unit may use at least one of the following protocols:

IEEE 1394, Firewire, USB, USB, RS-232, Ethernet, Ultrawide Band (UWB), Zigbee, 60 GHz, Wi-fi, 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n, wired and wireless, Bluetooth, Radio Frequency (RF), Infrared (IR), cellular, IEEE 802.15.1, CDMA, TDMA and FDMA.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the power unit provides power using at least one of the following:

batteries, solar, kinetic, power-over-ethernet (POE) and power-over-wifi (POWF).

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the memory consists of one of the following:

static-state-drives (SSD), flash memory, EEPROM, SRAM, DRAM and RAM.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the memory consists of one of the following:

hard-drive, static-state-drives (SSD), flash memory, EEPROM, SRAM, DRAM and RAM.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the system further comprises a loudspeaker.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the customized content consists of at least one of the following:

text data, image data, color data, video data, sound data or any combination thereof.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the customized content is designed using a software program.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the software program executes on at least one of the following:

a desktop PC, laptop PC, netbook, notebook, tablet PC, PDA, mobile telephone, Internet server, Intranet server, mobile device and said CU.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the display consists of one of the following:

Organic Light Emitting Diode/Device/Display (OLED), Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AMOLED), FOLED (Flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode), PhOLED (Phosphorescent Organic Light Emitting Diode, PLED (Polymer Light Emitting Diode, PMOLED (Passive Matrix OLED), POLED (Polymer Organic Light Emitting Diode), RCOLED (Resonant Color Organic Light Emitting Diode), SmOLED (Small Molecule Organic Light Emitting Diode, SOLED (Stacked Organic Light Emitting Diode), TOLED (Transparent Organic Light Emitting Diode) and NOID (Neon Organic Iodine Diode).

14. A method for displaying customized content on vehicle having a surface, comprising:

a. Uploading the customized content from an electronic computing device to the vehicle;

b. Executing a program by a control unit of the vehicle; and

c. Displaying the content based on the program executed by the control unit of the vehicle.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the customized content is designed by a user of the vehicle.

16. The method of claim 16, wherein customized content is downloaded from the Internet.

17. The method of claim 25, wherein the step of displaying further comprises displaying the customized content on 40% or more of the vehicle surface.

18. A method for displaying customized content on at least one vehicle having a surface, comprising:

a. Detecting the color of an object using a detector;

b. Determining color values related to the object;

c. Using the color values to create the content;

d. Executing a program by a control unit of the vehicle; and

e. Displaying the content based on the program executed by the control unit of the vehicle.