Advertisement display system

• US 8,326,687 B2
• Filed: 07/22/2009
• Issued: 12/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shinichi Tanaka
• Original Assignee: Shinichi Tanaka
• Inventors: Tanaka, Shinichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Gartland, Scott D
• Application Number:
  US12/682,806
• Publication Number:
  US 20100299189A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,231 Days
• Field of Search: 705/14.63, 705 141- 1473, 705/14.45, 705/14.5, 705/14.58
• US Class Current: 705/14.49
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements

Abstract

An advertisement display system includes a photograph unit for taking a photograph of a signal light of a signal 5 such as a traffic signal or an alarm for a railway crossing, a computer for analyzing the signal condition such as lighting or blinking of the signal light from image data thus photographed by the photograph unit, and a display unit for displaying advertisement display information which is stored in advance in the computer or the display unit in conjunction with the lighting or blinking condition of the signal light analyzed by the computer and displays a display body having a content correlated with the signal condition of the signal on the display unit.

Claims

1. An advertisement display system comprising:

a photograph unit that obtains image data of one or more signal lights of a signal, the signal being a traffic signal or an alarm for a railway crossing;

an image display unit that displays the image data of the one or more signal lights of the signal obtained by the photograph unit,

an optical sensor that detects a change in lighting, a change in color, or a blinking condition of the one or more signal lights of the signal as a signal condition of the signal based on the image data of the one or more signal lights of the signal displayed on the image display unit, the optical sensor being attached to a screen of the image display unit;

a relay unit connected to the optical sensor; and

an advertisement display unit that (i) is viewable from the street, (ii) communicates with the relay unit to obtain the signal condition detected by the optical sensor, (iii) extracts advertisement display information based on a correlation between the extracted advertisement display information and the signal condition of the signal light detected by the optical sensor, and (iv) displays the extracted advertisement display information.

2. The advertisement display system according to claim 1,

wherein the photograph unit is a digital camera or a digital video camera which can take a digital image, and

wherein the image data obtained by the photograph unit is a plurality of digital images taken by the photograph unit.

3. The advertisement display system according to claim 1,

wherein the advertisement display information is either advertisement display content information or matrix information for controlling lighting of a lamp.

4. The advertisement display system according to claim 1,

wherein the advertisement display unit is any one of an image display monitor, an electric display, a projector, a display unit having a sheet on which a display body is displayed and capable of being slid into a frame shaped window, and a display unit which changes display content by rotating a polygonal column on which the display body is displayed.