Billboard display system and method

• US 8,576,212 B2
• Filed: 10/20/2010
• Issued: 11/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cloud Network Technology Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Hou-Hsien, Lee, Chang-Jung, Lo, Chih-Ping
• Primary Examiner(s): PHAM, VIET DAVID
• Application Number:
  US12/908,010
• Publication Number:
  US 20120001879A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,112 Days
• Field of Search: 345/55, 345/204
• US Class Current: 345/207
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/005 Input arrangements through a video camera
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0325 using a plurality of light emitters or reflectors or a plurality of detectors forming a reference frame from which to derive the orientation of the object, e.g. by triangulation or on the basis of reference deformation in the picked up image
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 19/12 using special optical effects
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 19/14 displaying different signs depending upon the view-point of the observer
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0464 Positioning
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T

Abstract

A billboard display method includes: capturing images of a scene near the screen by a number of cameras, detecting the images from the cameras to determine whether there is a person nearby the screen, detecting the images to determine a relative position of the person to the screen upon the condition that there is a person nearby the screen, and controlling a media to be shown at a corresponding position of the screen according to the relative position of the person to the screen.

Claims

1. A billboard display system comprising:

a screen;

a plurality of cameras to captured images of a scene near the screen, wherein the scene is divided into a plurality of parts, each of the plurality of cameras captures images in at least one of the parts, one of the plurality of cameras is assigned with a reference line;

a processing unit connected between the cameras and the screen; and

a storage system connected to the processing unit and storing a plurality of programs to be executed by the processing unit, wherein the storage system comprises;

a human detection module to check the images captured by the plurality of cameras to determine whether there is a person nearby the screen;

a position detection module to check the images to determine a relative position of the person according to an angle between a line from a center of the person to a center of the screen and the reference line when there is a person nearby the screen; and

a controlling module to control a media to be shown at a corresponding position of the screen according to the relative position of the person to the screen.

2. The billboard display system of claim 1, wherein the screen is a columnar electronic billboard.

3. The billboard display system of claim 2, wherein the plurality of cameras are equidistantly mounted on a top edge of the screen, the position detection module further checks whether the person is captured by at least two of the plurality of cameras, the position detection module determines the relative position according to one of the at least two of the plurality of cameras.

4. The billboard display system of claim 1, wherein the storage system further comprises an order setting module, the order setting module sets an order that the position detection module detects the relative positions of two or more persons to the screen when there are two or more persons nearby of the screen.

5. The billboard display system of claim 4, wherein the position detection module sets the order that the position detection module detects the relative position of two or more persons to the screen according to the time the persons being nearby the screen.

6. The billboard display system of claim 4, wherein the position detection module sets the order that the position detection module detects the relative position of two or more persons to the screen according to a serial number of each camera.

7. A billboard display method comprising:

capturing images of a scene near a screen by a plurality of cameras, wherein the scene is divided into a plurality of parts, each of the plurality of cameras captures images in at least one of the parts, one of the plurality of cameras is assigned with a reference line;

detecting the images from the plurality of cameras to determine whether there is a person nearby the screen;

detecting the images to determine a relative position of the person according to an angle between a line from a center of the person to a center of the screen and the reference line upon the condition that there is a person nearby the screen; and

controlling a media to be shown at a corresponding position of the screen according to the relative position of the person to the screen.

8. The billboard display method of claim 7, wherein the screen is a columnar electronic billboard.

9. The billboard display method of claim 8, wherein the plurality of cameras are equidistantly mounted on a top edge of the screen.

10. The billboard display method of claim 7, further comprising:

setting an order that detects the relative positions of two or more persons to the screen when there are two or more persons nearby the screen according to the time the persons being nearby the screen.

11. The billboard display method of claim 7, further comprising:

setting an order that detects the relative positions of two or more persons to the screen when there are two or more persons nearby the screen according to a serial number of each camera.

12. The billboard display method of claim 7, further comprising:

checking whether the person is captured by at least two of the plurality of cameras; and

determining the relative position according to one of the at least two of the plurality of cameras in response to the person being captured by at least two of the plurality of cameras.