Method and apparatus for automatic selection and presentation of sales promotion programs
First Claim
1. A presentation unit comprising:
- a display touch screen unit that includes a touch screen on which images can be displayed, receives display image information from a sales promotion program, and produces a touch signal in response to a touch at the touch screen;
at least one positive response sensor that produces a signal that indicates when a person is in an area physically near the presentation unit and responds to the displayed images in a positive manner;
a speaker that transduces sound front the sales promotion program; and
a central processing unit having one of said neural network selection program and a plurality of sales promotion programs, wherein the neural network selection program selects one of said sales promotion program for presentation in response to real-time data and signals from the positive response sensor, said presentation of the selected program being displayed by the display touch screen and playbacked by the speaker.
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Abstract
A sales promotion program is dynamically selected from a plurality of programs for presentation in a program presentation unit by a neural network that makes its selection based on first detecting if a person is in the area immediately around the program presentation unit, then either selecting a general attract loop sales promotion program with the trained neural network using a set of predetermined system criteria if no person is detected in the immediate area or selecting a specific loop sales promotion program if at least one person is detected in the immediate area. The neural network is trained by selecting general attract loop programs that are run and then collecting data indicative of the number of persons responding to the general attract loop and also by selecting specific loop programs that are run if a person is in the immediate area and then collecting data indicative of the responses to the specific loop programs. The collected data thereby represents the success of the various sales programs in attracting and holding the attention of persons. The collected data is provided to the neural network in any one of a plurality of training schemes typical for neural networks, after which the trained neural network is provided with current, real-time selection data such that the trained network can select the most appropriate sales promotion program for running. The network can be retrained at regular intervals or in response to sales data or changes in the collected data.
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25 Claims
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1. A presentation unit comprising:
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a display touch screen unit that includes a touch screen on which images can be displayed, receives display image information from a sales promotion program, and produces a touch signal in response to a touch at the touch screen; at least one positive response sensor that produces a signal that indicates when a person is in an area physically near the presentation unit and responds to the displayed images in a positive manner; a speaker that transduces sound front the sales promotion program; and a central processing unit having one of said neural network selection program and a plurality of sales promotion programs, wherein the neural network selection program selects one of said sales promotion program for presentation in response to real-time data and signals from the positive response sensor, said presentation of the selected program being displayed by the display touch screen and playbacked by the speaker. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A kiosk unit that presents multimedia sales promotion programs having audio and video programming, the kiosk unit comprising:
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a kiosk housing; a display touch screen unit that is located in the kiosk housing and includes a touch screen on which images can be displayed so the displayed images are visible to passers-by, receives display image information from a sales promotion program, and produces a touch signal in response to a touch at the touch screen; at least one proximity sensor that produces a proximity signal that indicates when a person is in an immediate area of the touch screen; a traffic sensor that produces a traffic index signal that indicates the number of persons in the immediate area of the kiosk housing; a time data subsystem that generates time data comprising date and time-of-day data; a speaker that transduces sound from the sales promotion programs during playback so the transduced sound can be heard by passers-by; and a central processing unit having a neural network selection program and a plurality of sales promotion programs, wherein the neural network selection program assumes an untrained state in which selection data is collected and assumes a trained state in which the neural network selection program selects a sales promotion program for presentation whenever it is not currently presenting a sales promotion program in accordance with collected selection data said central processing means including means for outputting a presentation of selected sales promotion programs to the touch screen and a playback back to the speaker in response to real-time input data including the time data and collected data signals from the touch screen unit, proximity sensor, and traffic sensor according to said time data subsystem. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A method of dynamically selecting one of a plurality of sales promotion programs for running in a program presentation unit, the method comprising the steps of:
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training a neural network that generates an output data set indicating one of the plurality of sales promotion programs to be run in the program presentation unit along with a set of selection data; providing the trained neural network with current selection data; detecting if a person is in the area immediately around the program presentation unit; selecting one of a plurality of general attract loop sales promotion programs with the trained neural network using a set of predetermined system criteria, for running in the program presentation unit, if no person is detected in the immediate area; selecting a specific loop sales promotion program with the trained neural network in response to real-time data, for running in the program presentation unit, if at least one person is detected in the immediate area; and running the selected sales promotion program in the program presentation unit. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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