Virtual flip chart method and apparatus
First Claim
1. A presentation system for presenting information to an audience within a space, the system comprising:
- a communication network;
a control interface;
a master presentation unit including a processor and a master display screen, the master screen juxtaposed within the space so as to be viewable by the audience within the space, the processor operable to transmit an image displayed on the master screen over the network upon user command issued via the control interface; and
at least a first slave presentation unit including a first slave image presenter operable to receive and present images that are transmitted by the master unit to the first slave unit over the network to the audience within the space;
wherein, when an image is transmitted from the master unit to a slave unit, the image is correlated with a slave unit identifier and is stored in a memory as an image-unit set persistently until the image is no longer presented via the slave presentation unit.
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Abstract
A presentation method and system for presenting information to an audience within a space that mimics a flip chart assembly, the system including a control interface, a communication network and a master presentation unit including a processor and a master display screen, the master screen juxtaposed within the space so as to be viewable by the audience within the space, the processor operable to transmit an image displayed on the master screen over the network upon user command and a slave presentation unit including a slave presenter operable to receive and present an image to the audience within the space that is transmitted by the master unit to the slave unit over the network such that the master unit can be used to create a new image while the first image is simultaneously presented.
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89 Claims
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1. A presentation system for presenting information to an audience within a space, the system comprising:
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a communication network; a control interface; a master presentation unit including a processor and a master display screen, the master screen juxtaposed within the space so as to be viewable by the audience within the space, the processor operable to transmit an image displayed on the master screen over the network upon user command issued via the control interface; and at least a first slave presentation unit including a first slave image presenter operable to receive and present images that are transmitted by the master unit to the first slave unit over the network to the audience within the space; wherein, when an image is transmitted from the master unit to a slave unit, the image is correlated with a slave unit identifier and is stored in a memory as an image-unit set persistently until the image is no longer presented via the slave presentation unit. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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41. A presentation system for presenting information to an audience within a space, the system comprising:
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a communication network; and a plurality of presentation units, each presentation unit positioned to present images to the audience within the space, at least one of the presentation units being a master unit including a processor and a display screen, the processor operable to transmit images displayed on the display screen over the network to another one of the presentation units upon user command, each of the other presentation units operable to receive and present images to the audience within the space that are transmitted by the master unit to the other unit over the network; wherein, when an image is transmitted form the master unit to one of the other units, the image is stored in a memory that associates the image with a unique identifier persistently until the image is no longer presented via the slave presentation unit. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51)
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52. A method for use with a plurality of image presenting units within a space wherein each of the presenting units is positioned so that an audience within the space can observe images presented by the unit, the method for managing presented images and comprising the steps of:
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providing a control interface; presenting images via each of the presenting units, the image presented by each of the presenting units being a unit specific image; monitoring the control interface for an indication that the presented images should be stored; when an indication is received that the presented images should be stored; for each presenting unit, correlating the unit specific image presented with a unit identifier to form an image-unit set; and storing the image-unit sets for all of the units as a session image set. - View Dependent Claims (53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58)
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59. A method for use with a master presentation unit, at least a first slave presentation unit, a communication network and a control interface, the master unit including a processor and a master display screen and the slave unit including a slave presenter, the method for presenting images to an audience within a space, the method comprising the steps of:
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locating the master display screen within the space so as to be viewable by the audience within the space; locating the slave presenter within the space so that an image generated thereby will be viewable by the audience within the space; monitoring the control interface for an indication that an image presented on the master screen should be presented via the slave presenter; when an indication is received that the image presented on the master screen should be presented via the slave presenter, transmitting the image presented on the master screen to the slave unit for presentation via the communication network; and after an indication that an image presented on the master screen should be presented via the slave presenter, storing the image in a memory that associates the image with a unique identifier persistently until the image is no longer presented via the slave presentation unit. - View Dependent Claims (60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74)
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75. A presentation system for presenting information to an audience within a space, system comprising:
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a communication network; a control interface; a master presentation unit including a processor and a master display screen, the master screen juxtaposed within the space so as to be viewable by the audience within the space; at least a first slave presentation unit including a first slave image presenter operable to receive and present images that are transmitted by the master unit to the first slave unit over the network to the audience within the space; and the processor operable to transmit an image displayed on the master screen over the network upon user command via the control interface to the first slave unit; wherein, when an image is transmitted from the master unit to a slave unit, the image is correlated with a slave unit identifier and is stored in a memory as an image-unit set persistently until the image is no longer presented via the slave presentation unit. - View Dependent Claims (76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89)
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