Enhancing touch and feel on the Internet

• US 9,582,824 B2
• Filed: 09/28/2014
• Issued: 02/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Scott C Harris
• Original Assignee: Scott C Harris
• Inventors: Harris, Scott C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Kevin
• Application Number:
  US14/499,196
• Publication Number:
  US 20150019379A1
• Time in Patent Office: 884 Days
• Field of Search: 715763-765, 715851-853, 715740-743
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2111/02 CAD in a network environment, e.g. collaborative CAD or distributed simulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2113/20 Packaging, e.g. boxes or containers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/23 using finite element methods [FEM] or finite difference methods [FDM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0603 Catalogue ordering
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0623 Item investigation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0643 Graphical representation of items or shoppers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23412 for generating or manipulating the scene composition of objects, e.g. MPEG-4 objects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44012 involving rendering scenes according to scene graphs, e.g. MPEG-4 scene graphs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A system for enabling touch and feel over the internet provides a three-dimensional representation of a good being sold, that three-dimensional representation being viewable from a number of different directions. In one embodiment, the good being sold is in a package and the package is displayed from the number of different directions. Another embodiment has the good being a book, and the inside and outside covers of the book are displayed and specified pages of the book can be displayed. The user can read from either the label or the covers just like as if the were actually handling the good.

Claims

1. A computer system comprising:

a computer running a program to receive a first display image of a first item, having a first resolution and to produce outputs that display said first display image;

said program operating after displaying the first display image and while the first display image is being displayed, to load additional information about the first item while the first display image is being displayed, including information that increases an amount of information about the first item that is displayed, while the first display image is being displayed;

said additional information including both more details about the item, as well as plural controls, said controls including movement keys that are selected on the display, each movement key defining a direction from which the item on the screen is viewed;

said program detecting a selection of one of said movement keys, and

said computer changing the view of the item that is displayed to be a second display image which is a different image than said first display image, representing the view of the item from the different direction defined by said one of said movement keys;

where said movement keys include keys to move a direction of viewing at least in multiple different directions.

2. The computer system as in claim 1, wherein the item is a product with labels, the images have a different resolution for labels than for other parts of the image.

3. The computer system as in claim 1, wherein the item is a product with at least one label, the images formed of zones, where a first zone includes an image format to show the parts, and a second zone includes an ASCII format to show writing on the labels using a text format.

4. The computer system as in claim 1, wherein said movement keys include at least left, right and up and down.

5. The computer system as in claim 4, wherein said movement keys also include keys for diagonal movement of the viewing of the product.

6. The computer system as in claim 1, wherein the additional information includes a set of n images, where n is an integer greater than 1, each of said n images representing a view of the item from a specified vantage point and one of said vantage points is selected to view the items from the one vantage point.

7. The computer system as in claim 1, wherein said item is a product for sale.

8. The computer system as in claim 7, wherein said additional information includes information about both outer packaging of a box covering the product and information about the product itself which forms inner packaging within the outer packaging.

9. A method of operating a computer system to display images of an item comprising:

running a program on the computer system, to receive a first display image of a first item, having a first resolution;

producing outputs that display said first display image of the first item;

while displaying the first display image of the first item, loading additional information about the first item, including information that increases an amount of information about the first item that is displayed, while the first display image is being displayed;

said additional information including both more details about the item, as well as plural controls, said controls including movement keys that are selected on the display, each movement key defining a direction from which the item on the screen is viewed;

detecting a selection of one of said movement keys, and

changing the view of the first item that is displayed to be a second display image which is a different image than said first display image, representing the view of the item from the different direction defined by said one of said movement keys;

where said movement keys include keys to move a direction of viewing at least in multiple different directions.

10. The method as in claim 9, wherein the item is a product with labels, the images have a different resolution for labels than for other parts of the image.

11. The method as in claim 9, wherein the item is a product with at least one label, the images formed of zones, where a first zone includes an image format to show the parts, and a second zone includes an ASCII format to show writing on the labels using a text format.

12. The method as in claim 9, wherein said movement keys include at least left, right and up and down.

13. The method as in claim 12, wherein said movement keys also include keys for diagonal movement.

14. The method as in claim 9, wherein the additional information includes a set of n images, where n is an integer greater than 1, each of said n images representing a view of the item from a specified vantage point.

15. The method as in claim 9, wherein said item is a product for sale.

16. The method as in claim 15, wherein said additional information includes information about both outer packaging of a box covering the product and information about the product itself which forms inner packaging within the outer packaging.