Apparatus for the display of embedded information

• US 8,159,463 B2
• Filed: 09/15/2008
• Issued: 04/17/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Edged Display Management LLC (IPValuation Partners, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Technology Innovations, LLC
• Inventors: Weiner, Michael L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Nitin
• Application Number:
  US12/210,378
• Publication Number:
  US 20090085900A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,310 Days
• Field of Search: 345/7, 345/30, 345156-173, 345/204
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 17/00 Methods or arrangements for effecting co-operative working between equipments covered by two or more of main groups G06K1/00 - G06K15/00, e.g. automatic card files incorporating conveying and reading operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/04 characterised by the shape
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/06 characterised by the kind of the digital marking, e.g. shape, nature, code
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07 with integrated circuit chips
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07703 the interface being visual
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 21/02 by a carrier person or animal
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/02 Flexible displays

Abstract

An apparatus for the electronic display of information, where the apparatus is a substrate incorporating a digital recording medium attached to or embedded within the substrate. The substrate further includes a flexible-substrate display located on an exposed surface of the substrate, where the display is a medium capable of selectively displaying one of at least two possible colors at each pixel location thereon in order to produce a substrate medium that may be modified in accordance with a user'"'"'s selection.

Claims

1. An apparatus for the electronic display of information on a consumer good, comprising:

a flexible substrate with which the apparatus is permanently associated;

a digital recording medium associated therewith, where information is stored by the digital recording medium;

an updateable, flexible substrate display located on an exposed surface of the apparatus, wherein said substrate display includes a display medium capable of selectively displaying one of at least two possible colors at a plurality of pixel locations thereon;

where the flexible substrate display changes state in response to a signal generated from information stored in the digital recording medium;

a portable power supply for providing power to said digital recording medium and said substrate display; and

at least one user-interactive element that allows a user to selectively alter the display of information on the substrate display, wherein said user-interactive element includes a touch-sensitive device associated with the substrate.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the substrate is employed to display and update textual and graphic information in the nature of a map.

3. An apparatus for the electronic display of information on a consumer good, comprising:

a flexible substrate with which the apparatus is permanently associated;

a digital recording medium associated therewith, where information is stored by the digital recording medium;

an updateable, flexible substrate display located on an exposed surface of the apparatus, wherein said substrate display includes a display medium capable of selectively displaying one of at least two possible colors at a plurality of pixel locations thereon;

where the flexible substrate display changes state in response to a signal generated from information stored in the digital recording medium;

a portable power supply for providing power to said digital recording medium and said substrate display; and

at least one user-interactive element that allows a user to selectively alter the display of information on the substrate display, wherein the substrate is employed to display and update textual and graphic information in the nature of a book.

4. An apparatus for the electronic display of information on a consumer good, comprising:

a flexible substrate with which the apparatus is permanently associated;

a digital recording medium associated therewith, where information is stored by the digital recording medium;

an updateable, flexible substrate display located on an exposed surface of the apparatus, wherein said substrate display includes a display medium capable of selectively displaying one of at least two possible colors at a plurality of pixel locations thereon;

where the flexible substrate display changes state in response to a signal generated from information stored in the digital recording medium, and wherein the substrate is used to produce an article of clothing and is employed to display graphic information thereon;

a portable power supply for providing power to said digital recording medium and said substrate display; and

at least one user-interactive element that allows a user to selectively alter the display of information on the substrate display.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the graphic information is related to an advertisement and includes at least a product identifier.