WINDOW TAGS GRAPHIC DISPLAY

• US 20130132810A1
• Filed: 05/07/2012
• Published: 05/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Thomas Jandt & Associates Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Thomas Jandt & Associates Incorporated
• Inventors: Jandt, Thomas E.
• Application Number:
  US13/465,993
• Publication Number:
  US 20130132810A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/209
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 1/12 Frames therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 13/22 electroluminescent electroluminescent light sources per se H05B33/00
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 15/0012 frames therefor

Abstract

A frame mounts to a display surface for supporting an interactive sign with a first surface and a second surface, which faces the display surface. The frame includes a front and back side. The back side faces the display surface. The front side includes an opening that covers at least two opposite edges of the interactive sign. The frame includes a top, bottom, right, and left edges. The frame includes a lip portion positioned along at least one edge of the frame. An adhesive material connects to the back side of the frame. The adhesive material forms a connection to the display surface. The adhesive material is applied to at least two edges of the frame. At least part of the lip portion of the frame is sized so a combined thickness of the lip portion and the adhesive material is greater than a thickness of the interactive sign.

Claims

1. An apparatus for displaying an interactive sign, the apparatus comprising:

a frame that mounts to a display surface for supporting an interactive sign, the sign comprising a first surface and a second surface, the second surface facing the display surface, the frame comprising a front side and a back side, the back side of the frame facing the display surface, the front side of the frame comprising an opening sized such that the opening covers at least two opposite edges of the first surface of the interactive sign to retain the interactive sign, the frame comprising a top edge, a bottom edge, a right edge, and a left edge (“

edges of the frame”

), the frame comprising a lip portion positioned along at least one edge of the frame;

an adhesive material connected to the back side of the frame, the adhesive material forming a connection to the display surface when mounted to the display surface, the adhesive material applied to at least two edges of the frame; and

wherein at least part of the lip portion of the frame is sized such that a combined thickness of the lip portion and the adhesive material is greater than a thickness of the interactive sign.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, the apparatus further comprising a retention apparatus shaped to secure the interactive sign, the retention apparatus connected to an edge of the frame free of a lip portion and positioned between the back side of the frame and the display surface.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the interactive sign comprises an interactive element that interacts with a mobile scanning device.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, the interactive element comprising one or more of a quick response (“

QR”

) code, a bar code, and an radio frequency identification (“

RFID”

) tag.

5. The apparatus of claim 3, the interactive element located on a surface of the interactive sign and within the opening in the frame.

6. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the interactive element is one of printed directly on a surface of the interactive sign and printed on a sheet separate from the interactive sign that is affixed to a surface of the interactive sign.

7. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the frame comprises a compartment configured to receive an RFID tag.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the frame flexes to allow the interactive sign to be positioned within the frame.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the frame comprises a lip portion positioned along four edges of the frame, at least one edge of the frame comprising a slot configured to allow insertion or removal of an interactive sign.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the adhesive material is applied to three edges of the frame on the lip portion of the frame.

11. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein one or more of the lip and the adhesive material comprises at least one gap between the interactive sign and an outer edge of the frame.

12. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the opening covers four edges of the interactive sign to retain the interactive sign.

13. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the lip portion of the frame comprises a slot configured to receive the interactive sign, the slot positioned along one or more of the edges of the frame.

14. The apparatus of claim 1, the apparatus further comprising one or more lights integrated with the frame positioned to project light onto a surface of the interactive sign.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the one or more lights comprise one or more of light emitting diodes (“

LEDs”

), organic light-emitting diodes (“

OLEDs”

), light-emitting capacitors (“

LECs”

), liquid crystal displays (“

LCDs”

), cold-cathode fluorescent lamps (“

CCFLs”

), and cold cathode devices.

16. The apparatus of claim 1, the apparatus further comprising a transparent element sized to fit inside the opening of the frame so as to fill one of a portion of the opening and the entire opening.

17. A method for displaying an interactive sign, the method comprising:

receiving a uniform resource locator (“

URL”

) for a web page, the web page comprising information about an item comprising a display surface;

generating an interactive element associated with the URL;

incorporating the interactive element with a surface of an interactive sign; and

supporting the interactive sign on a frame mounted to the display surface of the item.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein:

the frame mounted to the display surface of the item supports an interactive sign, the sign comprising a first surface and a second surface, the second surface facing the display surface, the frame comprising a front side and a back side, the back side of the frame facing the display surface, the front side of the frame comprising an opening sized such that the opening covers at least two opposite edges of the first surface of the interactive sign to retain the interactive sign, the frame comprising a top edge, a bottom edge, a right edge, and a left edge (“

edges of the frame”

), the frame comprising a lip portion positioned along at least one edge of the frame;

wherein the frame further comprises;

an adhesive material connected to the back side of the frame, the adhesive material forming a connection to the display surface when mounted to the display surface, the adhesive material applied to at least two edges of the frame; and

wherein at least part of the lip portion of the frame is sized such that a combined thickness of the lip portion and the adhesive material is greater than a thickness of the interactive sign.

19. A system for displaying an interactive sign, the system comprising:

an interactive sign, the sign comprising a first surface and a second surface;

an interactive element associated with a URL for a web page, the web page comprising information about an item, the item comprising a display surface, the interactive element incorporated with a surface of the interactive sign;

a frame that mounts to a display surface for supporting the interactive sign, the frame comprising a front side and a back side, the back side of the frame facing the display surface, the second surface of the interactive sign facing the display surface, the front side of the frame comprising an opening sized such that the opening covers at least two opposite edges of the first surface of the interactive sign to retain the interactive sign, the frame comprising a top edge, a bottom edge, a right edge, and a left edge (“

edges of the frame”

), the frame comprising a lip portion positioned along at least one edge of the frame;

an adhesive material connected to the back side of the frame, the adhesive material forming a connection to the display surface when mounted to the display surface, the adhesive material applied to at least two edges of the frame; and

wherein at least part of the lip portion of the frame is sized such that a combined thickness of the lip portion and the adhesive material is greater than a thickness of the interactive sign.

20. The system of claim 19, the system further comprising:

a URL receiving module that receives a URL of a web page, the web page comprising information about an item comprising a display surface;

an interactive element generation module that generates an interactive element associated with the URL; and

an interactive element incorporation module that incorporates the interactive element generated by the interactive element generation module with a surface of the interactive sign.