Information communication method and information communication apparatus

• US 9,607,094 B2
• Filed: 02/11/2016
• Issued: 03/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hisense Visual Technology Co., Ltd. (Qingdao Huatong State-Owned Capital Operation (Group) Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tosihba, Toshiba Visual Solutions Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Kawasato, Hisao
• Primary Examiner(s): HESS, DANIEL A
• Application Number:
  US15/041,801
• Publication Number:
  US 20160162593A1
• Time in Patent Office: 411 Days
• Field of Search: 235/375, 705/14.61, 705/14.72, 705/14.58
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9554 by using bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols

Abstract

According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a portable terminal obtains an address for accessing a server from a signage terminal. The portable terminal generates a card for displaying a message in the signage terminal. The portable terminal transmits the card to the server. The signage terminal displays the card received from the server.

Claims

1. A display device comprising a display unit which is connected to a server through a network, wherein the display unit displays information, and the information is controlled by a portable terminal, and

the display unit adds an identification mark for the portable terminal to the information to clarify a correspondence between the information controlled by the portable terminal and the portable terminal.

2. The display device of claim 1, wherein the information is controlled in a communication path between the display unit and the portable terminal.

3. The display device of claim 1, wherein if plural information including the information is displayed, and also controlled by different portable terminals including the portable terminal, respectively, plural identification marks including the identical mark are displayed for the portable terminals, respectively.

4. The display device of claim 1, wherein the information to which the identification mark is added is information for a message.

5. The display device of claim 1, wherein the information to which the identification mark is added is information for sale.

6. The display device of claim 5, wherein when the portable terminal performs downloading, the information for sale indicates a remaining number of times downloading can be performed.

7. The control method of claim 1, wherein when the portable terminal performs downloading, the information for sale indicates a remaining number of times downloading can be performed.

8. A control method of a display device including a display unit which is connected to a server through a network,

displaying, on the display unit, information, which is controlled by a portable terminal;

and

adding, on the display unit, an identification mark for the portable terminal to the information to clarify a correspondence between the information and the portable terminal.

9. The control method of claim 8, wherein the information is controlled in a communication path between the display unit and the portable terminal.

10. The control method of claim 8, wherein if plural information including the information is displayed, and controlled by different portable terminals including the portable terminal, respectively, different identification marks including the identification mark are displayed for the portable terminals, respectively.

11. The control method of claim 8, wherein the identification mark is added to information for a message.

12. The control method of claim 8, wherein the information to which the identification mark is added is information for sale.