EP1942482A1 - Ecran d'information sur des marchandises - Google Patents

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EP1942482A1
EP1942482A1 EP07000223A EP07000223A EP1942482A1 EP 1942482 A1 EP1942482 A1 EP 1942482A1 EP 07000223 A EP07000223 A EP 07000223A EP 07000223 A EP07000223 A EP 07000223A EP 1942482 A1 EP1942482 A1 EP 1942482A1
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Peter Volland
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    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
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  • the present invention relates to a goods information display for displaying visual information about goods or services for customers according to the preamble of claim 1. Furthermore, the invention relates to a group of goods information displays. Another aspect of the invention relates to a network with commodity information displays.
  • the object of the invention is achieved with a goods information display according to the features of the independent claim 1. Another solution is given by a group of commodity information displays according to claim 16. An alternative or cumulative solution to the problem underlying the invention is given by a network of commodity information displays according to claim 17.
  • the goods information display serves to display visual information that directly relates to goods or services or to provide additional information about them. Cumulative provision of audio information via the commodity information display and associated attachments is also possible.
  • the visual information is presented to the customer via a screen of any type, in particular a flatscreen screen.
  • the goods information display has a CPU, which in particular has a processing unit or a processor and a storage unit and are prepared via the information available on the storage unit suitable for constantly displaying on the screen, changing and / or as moving images or font or graphics ,
  • the goods information display has a power supply serving to provide electric power to both the screen and the CPU.
  • the power supply can be designed as a suitable interface for a connecting cable of an external power source.
  • the power supply can be formed with an accumulator, so that at least temporarily an autonomous operation of the goods information display from a power source is possible.
  • the goods information display is also equipped with an interface which allows a data exchange with the goods information display.
  • Such an interface can be used for a first-time "recording" of a storage unit with data for the information for the customer. It is also possible that an updating or partial updating of the data present on a storage unit takes place via the interface and / or a supplement to existing data.
  • the interface can be designed to be suitable, so that a maintenance staff can, for example, connect an external CPU to the goods information display, so that the data exchange is possible.
  • the interface may be a suitable interface with a network, such as the Internet, through which there is a temporary or permanent data connection with the use of a fixed line to an external server. Integrating the commodity information display in this manner may simplify the updating of the data because it does not require a maintenance person to move in sequence to multiple commodity information displays to be updated.
  • the interface can also be used to update or maintain a software of the goods information display.
  • the goods information display via the interface operating instructions for the goods information display and its components can be transferred, for example, operating parameters relating to the setting of the screen, a volume control, activation and deactivation of the goods information display and their components u. etc. ..
  • the goods information display according to the present invention is designed as a slim, visually appealing unit whose installation space is minimized and their appearance for the customer and viewer on the essential component (or essential components) is reduced.
  • the CPU is not arranged below, above or to the side of the screen, but arranged on the back of the screen and, so to speak, "hidden”.
  • the screen is visible, which may be the case when the screen is relatively free, for example on a shelf, a pad o. ⁇ .. Also possible is that the screen on a wall is held so that the CPU is located between the back of the screen and the wall and at most from the side is visible.
  • the screen can be integrated in a wall recess, which - in consideration of any ventilation requirements - is adapted in cross section to the dimensions of the screen.
  • the embodiment according to the invention means that when viewing the screen, the CPU is at least partially, largely or completely covered by the screen.
  • the CPU can be mounted directly on the screen or be supported relative to adjacent components, wherein a support structure can also be arranged between the screen and the CPU.
  • this can serve primarily the connection between the screen and the CPU or be designed in a multi-functional way, on the one hand serving as the connection between the screen and the CPU and, on the other hand, serving as a support function for the unit formed with the screen and the CPU.
  • the support structure may comprise a further fixing element, via which the CPU is held on the support structure.
  • this fixing can be designed as non-customizable fixing, while customizable fixation for the connection between CPU and support structure can be used for the use of different CPUs.
  • the support structure according to the invention is formed with a cross member and two vertical struts.
  • the cross member is used to support the CPU, while the struts can be connected to the rear side of the screen via bores or elongated holes designed as fixing elements.
  • a connection of the goods information display with the environment is accomplished in such a way that the cross member is screwed to a wall or a supporting surface.
  • the connection between the struts and the screen is first created for mounting the goods information display.
  • the cross member with the environment such as a wall, firmly connected.
  • the cross member carries in this case, for example, the CPU. In such a state, the connection of the connecting cable between the CPU and the screen.
  • a hooking of hook elements of the carrier can be done from above into corresponding counter hook elements of the cross member.
  • the invention also proposes to provide a fuse element, on which in the suspended state securing the struts and thus the screen relative to a movement relative to the Cross member upwards, so that even when exercising forces on the screen, the screen can not inadvertently come off the cross member.
  • any technology can be used for the use of an interface between CPU and screen, this is preferably designed as a VGA, HDMI, DVI interface.
  • the support structure fixes the screen relative to the environment
  • the support structure has according to a modification of the invention at least one degree of freedom over which the position or orientation and position of the screen relative to the environment is variable.
  • a degree of freedom can be constantly effective, so that when applying sufficient forces, the position or position can be changed.
  • the degree of freedom is initially locked, for example by a clamping screw, and with the solution of this blockade targeted movement or pivoting of the screen is possible.
  • a support for example by a spring, a damper or a gas spring, take place.
  • a pivoting or displacement of the screen via a suitable control unit is also possible.
  • the invention further proposes that the CPU be remotely controlled is controllable.
  • the CPU can have a remote control board, preferably with several different channels.
  • the goods information display can be activated and deactivated, ie control of electrical power is controlled, screen parameters are changed, volume is controlled, a control unit is controlled to move the screen relative to the environment, a selection of different types of information and software Programs or a user-controlled sending of signals via the interface into the network.
  • a remote control via the remote control, an update of the data for software and / or the information provided is activated or controlled.
  • a remote control is particularly advantageous if the goods information display is arranged at a height in which this can not be manually operated by the operator without additional aids via suitable actuators.
  • a manual operating unit for example in the edge area of the screen, on the CPU or as a separate operating unit, can be provided.
  • a holding device for a remote control in which it can be stored, if no interaction takes place via the remote control.
  • a holding device may be provided, for example, on the screen or said supporting structure. It is also possible that upon removal of the remote control continues this, for example, via a rope, connected to the goods information display, so that they can not be lost or stolen.
  • the CPU and / or the interface to other components of the goods information display may be movable from an operating position behind the screen to a maintenance position, in which the CPU and / or the interface is more accessible from the front of the commodity information display or the side thereof.
  • the network employing a plurality of commodity information displays of the aforementioned kind.
  • a plurality of commodity information displays are connected to at least one central server.
  • the central server - and an associated memory unit - are the current data, directives for an exchange and an update of the data and u.
  • U. an updated software are the current data, directives for an exchange and an update of the data and u.
  • U. an updated software is the current data, directives for an exchange and an update of the data and u.
  • the network according to the invention has a synchronization unit. This is suitably configured for an automatic exchange of goods information data between at least one goods information display and the at least one central server.
  • the exchange of data presented on the basis of the presented information an updating and / or an error correction can take place automatically. This can always be done when new data is available. It is also possible that synchronization occurs at fixed time intervals, for example every day, every week, every month or every year. It is also possible that the synchronization is made dependent on a corresponding license payment for the implementation of the same.
  • a further embodiment of the invention is based on the finding that at different goods information displays u. U. different visual information of interest. It would nevertheless be advantageous if these commodity information displays could be updated by the same or the same servers.
  • Goods information display groups that may be interested in different visual information may be those in which the information about the same goods and / or services is to be provided to the customer with different intensity so that some of the goods information displays provide less information than others. It is also possible that goods information display groups should display different information, since these relate, for example, to different goods and / or services.
  • the product information display groups are assigned to different business groups, lines of business and goods and / or services and the only connection via same server. This has the advantage that, for example, from one company the different goods information display groups can be supplied.
  • a distribution unit is provided in the network, in particular in the central server. The distribution unit forms subsets of the information data present at the central server and executes an automated exchange with goods information displays of a goods information display group only with these subsets. For different goods information display groups, that is to say, for example, goods information displays of different business branches, different subsets of the information data present at the central server are exchanged.
  • Fig. 1 shows, for example, a goods information display 1, which is attached to a wall 2.
  • the goods information display 1 has a screen 3, which is formed in this case as a flat screen screen.
  • a support structure 4 is interposed between wall 2 and screen 3, a support structure 4 is interposed.
  • the support structure 4 has a wall element 5, which is screwed tightly to the wall 2, and a screen element 6, which is bolted to the screen 3, for example.
  • Wall element 5 and screen element 6 form a releasable holding connection, for example, which is produced in particular by hanging.
  • a CPU 7 On the support structure 4 according to the embodiment accordingly Fig. 1 is attached to the wall element 5, a CPU 7.
  • the wall 2, the CPU 7 and the screen 3 have interfaces 8, 9, 10, via which a closed line system or via individual lines 11 between the interfaces 8, 9, 10 an exchange of signals, data and / or a power supply takes place ,
  • Fig. 2 shows a support structure 4, in which the wall element 5 as a cross member 12 and the screen element 6 with two vertical struts 13, 14 is formed.
  • the cross member 12 carries centrally the CPU 7, which is bolted for example to the cross member 12 in the region of fixing elements 36.
  • the cross member 12 has, in particular in the outer regions, recesses 15, which in the embodiment according to Fig. 2 are formed as horizontally oriented slots and over which the cross member 12 can be bolted to the wall 2.
  • view of the cross member 12 is both symmetrical to a longitudinal center plane and with respect to a transverse center plane.
  • the cross member 12 is formed as a kind of box profile.
  • the cross member 12 has in the region of its upper edge a vertically upwardly oriented projection, which forms a counter hook element 16, and in the region of its lower edge a downwardly pointing projection which forms a counter hook element 17.
  • the struts 13, 14 are formed in cross-section approximately U-shaped with a base leg 18 and two side legs 19, 20. The extension of the side legs 19, 20 increases, as from Fig. 3 it can be seen, to the middle of the longitudinal extent of the struts 13, 14 to.
  • the struts 13, 14 In the region of the base leg 18, the struts 13, 14 have fixing elements 21, 22 at different heights or at different longitudinal extensions of the struts 13, 14.
  • the fixing elements 21, 22 formed as slots.
  • the fixing element 21 the strut 13, 14 are connected to a first screen with first connection dimensions, while the fixing element 22 via a connection with a second screen with second connection dimensions is possible.
  • Further fixing elements 23 are arranged distributed over the longitudinal extent of the struts 13, 14.
  • the struts 13, 14 are identical.
  • Screwed to the side legs 19, 20 is a part of a suspension connection 24, which in the in Fig. 3 upper end portion has a hook member 25 and in the lower end region has a horizontal, in the mounted state in the direction of the wall facing extension 26.
  • the struts 13, 14 are suspended in the state connected to the screen 3 in the hook elements 25 on the hook elements 16.
  • the extensions 26 extend over the counter hook element 17 in the direction of the wall 2.
  • the extensions 26 have through threads into which a screw 27 can be screwed, which forms a further hook element, which behind the counter hook element 17 with increasing Screwing into the extension 26 can hook and thus in the suspended state, lifting and / or horizontal movement of the struts 13, 14 with the screen 3 is prevented.
  • Fig. 4 Figure 5 shows a network 28 in which several commodity information displays 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e, ... are networked to a central server 29, for example via an Internet connection 30.
  • the commodity information displays 1a, 1b, 1c do not necessarily physically constitute one another separate goods information display group 31, while the goods information displays 1d, 1e are part of the goods information display group 32.
  • the central server 29 is assigned an operating unit 33, via which an administrator can transfer control commands to the server and / or can organize the updating of the data and of the software. Via the server 29, a selection of a subset of the information data on the central server 29, in particular a memory unit thereof, can take place automatically or by triggering by the administrator. Such a subset is supplied to the goods information display group 31 for updating and / or supplementing the data stock, while another subset without or intersecting with the former subset is exchanged with the commodity information display group 32.
  • a holding device 34 in the region of the side surface of the screen 3 is shown, into which a remote control 35 is inserted or onto which the remote control 35 is placed.
  • the holding device 34 for the remote control 35 may be arranged in any area of the screen 3, the support structure 4 or the wall 2.
  • the Warininformationsdisplay may additionally have an optical detection system such as a scanner through which a potential customer log on to the system or desired, u. U. can retrieve individualized information. For example, a detection of a flight ticket and then a targeted provision of information in the environment of the flight can be done. It is also possible that an authorization process takes place via an optical detection system and / or a keyboard before providing the visual information.
  • an optical detection system such as a scanner through which a potential customer log on to the system or desired, u.
  • U. can retrieve individualized information. For example, a detection of a flight ticket and then a targeted provision of information in the environment of the flight can be done. It is also possible that an authorization process takes place via an optical detection system and / or a keyboard before providing the visual information.

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DE29812218U1 (de) * 1998-07-09 1999-01-07 Anova Multimedia Studios Gmbh Multimedia-Terminal
DE19952252A1 (de) * 1998-12-09 2001-03-22 Murer Claudia Vorrichtung zur visuellen Darstellung von Produktinformationen
DE10351870B3 (de) * 2003-11-06 2005-05-19 Klaus-Dieter Knapp Halterung für ein Multimedia-Terminal
WO2006095379A1 (fr) * 2005-03-11 2006-09-14 Omb S.R.L. Systeme de montage pour appareil menager
EP1703195A1 (fr) * 2005-03-18 2006-09-20 Market Link USA, Inc. Support d'écran de visualisation

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE29812218U1 (de) * 1998-07-09 1999-01-07 Anova Multimedia Studios Gmbh Multimedia-Terminal
DE19952252A1 (de) * 1998-12-09 2001-03-22 Murer Claudia Vorrichtung zur visuellen Darstellung von Produktinformationen
DE10351870B3 (de) * 2003-11-06 2005-05-19 Klaus-Dieter Knapp Halterung für ein Multimedia-Terminal
WO2006095379A1 (fr) * 2005-03-11 2006-09-14 Omb S.R.L. Systeme de montage pour appareil menager
EP1703195A1 (fr) * 2005-03-18 2006-09-20 Market Link USA, Inc. Support d'écran de visualisation

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