Video display screen systems and methods for displaying information

• US 9,934,709 B2
• Filed: 08/03/2007
• Issued: 04/03/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/03/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Randall J Lanham
• Original Assignee: Randall J Lanham
• Inventors: Lanham, Randall James
• Primary Examiner(s): PHAM, VIET DAVID
• Application Number:
  US11/833,817
• Publication Number:
  US 20080030427A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,896 Days
• Field of Search: 345 23
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/40 Business processes related to the transportation industry shipping G06Q10/083
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 21/04 by land vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 21/042 the advertising matter being fixed on the roof of the vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 21/048 Advertisement panels on sides, front or back of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 21/06 by aeroplanes, airships, balloons, or kites
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 9/30 in which the desired character or characters are formed by combining individual elements panels comprising a number of electrodes in a single cell controlling light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. electro-optical or magneto-optical cell, G02F1/00

Abstract

Various embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for displaying information in a real-time updateable form. In one embodiment, the present invention can comprise a system comprising a vehicle, a video display attached to the vehicle, a wireless data transfer device capable of receiving data transmissions, an operational sensor device capable of detecting changes in the operation of the vehicle, a controller that receives signals from at least one source and transmits signals to video display, and a plurality of power sources where at least one of the power sources is independent of the power supply of the vehicle.

Claims

1. A vehicular video display system comprising:

a vehicle;

a video display attached to the vehicle;

a source of advertisements unrelated to the operation of the vehicle for display upon the video display;

an operational sensor device wherein the operational sensor device detects application of the vehicle brakes with said operational sensor device producing a vehicle operation change signal when said operational sensor device detects application of the vehicle brakes;

a controller connected to said video display and said advertisements to control the display of said advertisements upon said video display, and said controller connected to said operational sensor device to receive said vehicle operation change signal which causes said controller to cease the display of advertisements upon the video display so long as the vehicle brakes are applied and to transmit a message signal to said video display which produces a video message on the video display indicating the vehicle brakes have been applied so long as the vehicle brakes are applied; and

a power source for providing power to said video display and said controller.

2. The vehicular video display system of claim 1 wherein said controller will cease the display of advertisements upon said video display and cause said video message to be displayed upon said video display in the event that said operational sensor device detects that the vehicle brakes have been applied.

3. A method of displaying advertisements and vehicle operation upon a vehicle display comprising the steps of:

providing a vehicle with brakes, a video display attached to the vehicle, a source of advertisements unrelated to the operation of the vehicle for display upon the video display, an operational sensor device which detects the application of vehicle brakes, and a controller connected to said video display, source of advertisements, and operational sensor, wherein the operational sensor device produces a vehicle operation change signal when the operational sensor device detects application of the vehicle brakes, and the controller is connected to the video display and the source of advertisements so as to control the display of the advertisements upon the video display, and the controller is connected to the operational sensor device to receive the vehicle operation change signal with the controller operative to transmit a message signal to the video display which produces a video message on the video display indicating the vehicle brakes have been applied when the controller receives a vehicle operation change signal;

producing advertisements on the video display as controlled by the controller;

applying the vehicle brakes which causes the operational sensor to produce the vehicle operation change signal which is transmitted to the controller, which in turn causes the controller to cease the display of advertisements upon the video display so long as the vehicle brakes are applied and causes the controller to transmit the message signal to the video display which produces the video message upon the video display indicating that brakes are being applied so long as the vehicle brakes are applied.