ITMI960289A1 - ELECTRONIC-TELEMATIC-MECHANICAL SYSTEM FOR THE SALE OF LITERARY WORKS FOR AUDIO FOR VIDEO PRODUCED AT THE TIME OF PURCHASE - Google Patents

Abstract

Electronic-telematic-mechanical system for the veon at least one hidden surface area, especially that can be created with texts, sounds and images. It defines a defining sheet-like element, on memorable sheets, which includes the installation on the reserved and similar indications. The peculiarity keyboard, a monitor and memory and app stores at least one cover element solidarized to the binding of texts, for the recording of audio cassettes, videotapes, compact discs, of at least part of said cover element from i in general, comprising the computer a programmability of restore solidarity, without making clear the separation. recalled from remote memories, the data corresponding to the requested work and these data are transmitted according to the type of work, to one or the other of the equipment for the production respectively of literary works, audio cassettes, videotapes, compact discs, floppies disks, optical-magnetic supports in general.

Description

DESCRIPTION

Description of the INDUSTRIAL INVENTION entitled:

? Electronic-telematic-mechanical system for the sale of literary works, for audio, for video, produced at the time of purchase "

The invention concerns electronic and telematic systems for recording and reproducing texts, sounds and images of works in general on reading media such as books, magazines and newspapers and on audio and video media such as optical tapes and discs. , magnetic and magneto-optical and the Smart Card and equivalents.

Are the printed matter known? the printing means for storing and reading works on paper supports which give rise to books, magazines, newspapers and the like.

Are audiovisuals known that? ? means for recording and reproducing sounds and images such as audio cassettes, video cassettes, compact discs, floppy discs, Smart Cards and magneto-optical media in general.

Do the producers and managers of these vehicles have to provide for each new or requested work, to produce a certain quantity? of copies to create stocks both in production warehouses and in sales warehouses such as bookstores, shops, newsstands, markets in general.

All of this? has significant drawbacks in that? almost? it is impossible to predict the exact number of copies that will be sold in a short time or to predict the success or otherwise of a new work or perhaps produced in other countries.

The result is very often numerous stocks that will be disposed of in a long time or even never, forming unsold deposits or on the contrary an insufficient or late production compared to the demands of the moment for a work that has become successful or even the failure to sell works sold. successfully in other countries.

Many works are not translated and distributed because? the cost? they consider themselves superior to the probabilities? successfull.

Therefore, economic losses occur or due to excessive capital immobilization or the failure to fulfill requests and orders.

How ? known all over the world there are immense quantities? of works lying in bookstores, music stores, compact discs, audio cassettes, video cassettes, optical, magnetic and magneto-optical discs.

Many of these works are desired by users but who cannot come into possession of them due to the obvious handling costs, and the time required for such a service.

To there? we must add the enormous difficulty? to find the desired work all over the world.

The invention in question, using the new means offered by electronics and telematics, with technical and plant engineering systems and associations that have never been conceived up to now, solves these drawbacks as will be the case. illustrated below.

Object of the invention? an electronic-telematic-mechanical system for the sale of literary works, for audio, for video, generally created with texts, sounds and still or moving images and translatable into memorable electronic data.

Is a computer installed in the place of sale, one or more? monitor and mass memory.

All suitably interfaced to make it easier for the user to use the keyboard, touch sensitive screen and more.

There are also some or all equipment for printing on sheets of paper and binding of texts, for recording audio cassettes, video cassettes, compact discs, floppy discs, magneto-optical media in general.

The computer? equipped with a program through which, when the characteristics corresponding to a specific desired work are typed on the keyboard or on alternative means of interfacing, the processor itself recalls from the mass memory or from the LAN-Local Area Network or WAN- Wide Area Network the data corresponding to the requested work and transmits them to the equipment suitable for its production.

Therefore, depending on the type of work, one or another of the equipment suitable for producing literary works on paper media such as books, magazines, newspapers and equivalents, audiocassettes, videotapes, or compact discs, floppy discs, Smart Cards, works on other optical, magnetic or magneto-optical media.

This system can? comprise electronic means to facilitate the direct typing on the keyboard of the characteristics corresponding to a specific work such as codes attributed by the manager of the sales outlet to the individual works and forming part of lists that can be viewed on the computer monitor.

Adequate devices indicate to the user the amount corresponding to the requested work so that? the order can be confirmed.

Adequate means provide for the direct and automatic delivery to the user of the paid and produced work.

A credit card reader or equivalent after verification of validity? of the card itself, charges the cost of the operation to the latter and authorizes the machine to proceed.

The computer? connected through a modem or a network adapter and telephone lines, to one or more? remote memories located in other sales outlets, even in other cities? and in other countries.

Are the various computers also connected to the company's headquarters? that and also in the operational centers of the general organization that manages the service. Therefore, if the data of the requested work are not contained in the local mass memory, the computer automatically connects to the remote memory that contains such data, picks them up and transmits them to the equipment located on the place of sale suitable for the production and delivery of the? desired work.

The system includes file compressors which, before storing the data corresponding to texts, sounds and images, on magnetic or optical disks readable by the computer, compress such data by means of a processing using mathematical algorithms in order to be able to store quantities. very high data.

Consequently, decompressors are provided which, received the file from the memory, transmit it to the computer in its original characteristics.

The equipment for recording audio cassettes, video cassettes, compact discs, floppy discs, magneto-optical discs are equipped with a digital-to-analog converter that converts digital signals from the computer into analog signals.

The equipment for recording audio cassettes, video cassettes, compact discs, floppy discs, magneto-optical discs, include an electronic programming, coordination and control card, loaders for blank media respectively of audio cassettes, video cassettes, compact discs, floppy discs, discs magneto-optical devices, devices for their automatic feeding to an electronic recording body and an ejection device which gradually expels the registered products.

The equipment for a literary work such as books, magazines, newspapers and more includes a high-speed electronic printer, a magazine for sheets of paper, a magazine for covers, a glue dispenser.

This equipment, after having finished printing the text transmitted by the computer, applies glue to a cover or not and then associates or not the block of the printed sheets with this cover, giving rise, depending on the case, to a book, or to a magazine or a newspaper and so on.

The system described can? include an automatic kiosk accessible from the outside and adequately protected, equipped with a slot for inserting a credit card, a monitor, a keyboard connected to the computer and various slots for the exit of the literary work as a book and the like, of audiocassette, videotape, compact disc, floppy disc, magneto-optical discs.

These slots are connected by automatic means of mechanical transfer from the various specific equipment for the production of the various works.

The advantages of the invention are evident.

All (and works composed of texts, still images and In motion and sounds and which give rise to so-called printed matter, that is to books, magazines, newspapers and the like, to the so-called audiocassettes and videotapes, to the so-called compact discs, floppy discs, discs magneto-optical, Smart Cards that can be obtained through storable electronic data, can be produced at the moment by recalling the data from the databases of the memories located both in the place of sale to which you are contacting and both in other sales outlets and in the central units of the houses publishers or entrepreneurs who manage the service.

It is in fact possible, through telephone connections, even to produce in one's own country and at the moment a book or a videotape or an audiocassette or other media by taking data from databases present in sales outlets or in exchanges located in distant countries, for example in Germany, in America and so on.

By means of the system object of the invention, since most of the works are stored in the databases but not produced and since the databases can be connected to any place of sale, any user can? in a very short time with very limited expense to come into possession, almost in real time, of any existing work in any place of sale or production in any part of the world.

Therefore, not only are warehouse stocks and excessive inventories drastically reduced, but unavailability is avoided? of existing works or produced in places too far from the user's location.

In summary, with the invention in question the costs of the products are drastically reduced and the most? wide possibility? to come into possession of works of virtually any nature, existing in any part of the world.

The production of works that can be translated into electronic data is revolutionized because instead of producing to create sales stocks, the various works, whether they are texts, still or moving images such as films, voices and music, are exclusively stored in databases. located anywhere in the world.

In the various sales outlets? a kiosk accessible also from the outside is sufficient, whose computer, by means of a credit card or other form of payment, gives the order to produce the desired work by recalling the electronic data from anywhere in the world.

The sale of the product? ultimately replaced by the right to withdraw from the database of the data relating to the product typed on the keyboard, choosing at the same time the type of support on which you want such data and what? paper support in the case of works to be read, cassette or disc support in the case of works to be watched or listened to.

All of this? with simple means of both installation and operation and with irrelevant costs bearing in mind the effects achieved.

The characteristics and purposes of the invention will be even more? clear from the examples of implementation that follow accompanied by schematic figures.

Fig. 1) Functional diagram of a place of sale of electronically stored works

Fig. 2) Automatic kiosk for self-service sales

Fig. 3} Flow chart of the management program

The sales outlet 10 comprises a computer 20 equipped with a monitor 21 and a keyboard 22. Such a computer? connected to a local mass memory 23, to a decompressor 24 and to a modem 25 by means of cables 26, 27, 28 respectively and comprises a credit card reader 30 with slot 31.

In this place of sale are also? various systems are set up for the production of works that can be created with texts, still and moving images and sounds, which can be stored electronically.

The system 50 includes the graphic composition and binding apparatus 51 with electronic programming and control card 52, high speed laser printer 53, chamber 54 for collecting the printed sheets, cover loader 55 56 for binding printed matter and chamber 57 with slot 58 for taking out the book or in any case the printed and bound literary work and? connected with cable 48 to computer 20.

The system 60 includes the video recording equipment 61 with electronic programming and control card 62, loader 63 of 64 blank video cassettes, slot 65 for the output of the produced video cassettes, analog-digital converter 66 and connection cable 67 with the computer 20.

The system 70 comprises the audio cassette device 71 with electronic programming and control card 72, blank audio cassette loader 73 74, analog digital converter 75, connection cable 76 to the computer 20. The modem 25 allows 85 and cables 86, 87, 88, 89 for connection to remote memories 80, 81, 82 located in other sales outlets or in the management center of the company in Italy or in other countries that manage the service.

The operation of the system basically takes place as follows.

The computer, after asking the user to select the product to be reproduced, reads the credit card inserted in the slot 31 of the reader 30) and through the modem 25), connected to the telephone line 86), requests the computer 78 connected with a cable 79) to a company? who manages the credit card the authorization to charge the amount of the service selected by the user.

If the authorization is denied, the computer 20) of the sales outlet warns the customer of the impossibility? to provide the requested service.

If, on the other hand, the authorization is granted, the computer charges the cost of the service on the credit card and goes to the stage of processing and production of what is requested.

According to what the user requests, the computer connects to the database in which the file to be printed resides.

If you have to play a file that is in high demand by the public, why? successful, this with a lot of probability? will you find? stored in the local mass memory 23). In this case the computer receives the file from the mass memory and sends it to the file decompressor 24).

To be able to store texts, sounds and images on a computer readable memory, such as magnetic or optical disks, without having to occupy large portions of it,? it is necessary to compress the texts, sounds and images by means of an electronic processing using mathematical algorithms before storing them on the disk.

The compression algorithms compare, in the case of video images, the frames that follow each other: for example, in the case of a close-up image of a person who is speaking, the frame following the previous one is different only in small parts of it, such as lips, small movements of the head, etc. and not in totality? of the image and therefore not? It is necessary to memorize a whole frame every time, but it is enough to memorize only the differences between them, with consequent enormous saving of memory to be used for storing the file.

These systems allow you to compress the size of a file even tens of times.

Systems similar to those described above are used for the compression of texts and sounds.

The decompressor performs the reverse function of the compressor, returns the decompressed file from memory to its original size and returns it to computer 20.

In case the requested file is not? present in the local memory,? it must be requested from the remote memory that contains it. In this case the computer through the modem 25), connects via telephone line 86) to one of the remote computers 80), 81), 82), which send to the computer 20) the requested file which, as previously described, will come? decompressed by decompressor 24).

Once the computer has received the decompressed file from the decompressor, it sends it to the system 50), if it is a book, to the digital analog converter 66), if it is a movie, to the digital analog converter 75), if it is it is a voice file.

In the case of the reproduction of a book, the laser printer 53) at high speed? prints on sheets the text that is deposited in the container 54).

Once the print is finished, from the loader 55), a cover is taken out 56) that will go? to wrap the block of sheets deposited in the container 54).

Then, by heating the glue previously deposited on the cover, the block of printed sheets is glued to the cover itself, completing the creation of the book which is deposited in the chamber 57), to be picked up from the slot 58).

In the case of the reproduction of a video cassette, the digital analog converter 66) converts the digital signals into analog signals and sends them to the video recording system 60), which uses one of the blank cassettes 64) of the loader 63), for the recording the required video.

Once the recording is finished, the cassette can? be taken from slot 65). In the case of the reproduction of an audio cassette, the analog digital converter 75) converts the digital signals into analog signals and sends them to the audio recording system 70), which will be used? one of the blank cassettes 74) of the magazine 73), for recording the required music. Once the recording is finished, the cassette can? be picked up by the customer through slot 76).

The kiosk 90) illustrated in fig. 2), allows you to distribute in a self-service way what is requested by the customer.

This kiosk has a monitor 91), a keyboard 92), the slots 93), 94), 95), 96) respectively for the introduction of the credit card and the removal of a book, an audio cassette or a a video cassette.

The keyboard 92), the monitor 91) and the slot 93) are equivalent to the devices 21), 22) and 31) respectively gi? described in fig. 1) and are connected to the computer 20) or other equivalent.

Automatic means not indicated for simplicity? in the figures, they transfer the products from the plants 50), 60), 70) already? described in the slots 94), 95), 96) of the kiosk 90) respectively.

How does it work? analogous to that already? described for place of sale 10).

The customer inserts a credit card into the slot 93), receives instructions from the computer 20) via the monitor 91), responds to the instructions requested via the keyboard 92) and takes what is ordered and that the machine has immediately produced: if I book from the slot 94 ), if videocassette from 95), if audio cassette from 96). Hereinafter, with reference to fig. 3) it is described how the program residing on the computer manages the whole system:

33), insert credit card.

34),? the credit card has been inserted, if "no? go back to 33), if" yes? '? go to 35).

35), select the file you want to play.

36), Display the cost of playback.

37), request for confirmation of the order and approval of the customer to debit the cost on a credit card. If? No ", 38), collect the card, end of the transaction. If? Yes? Go to 39).

39), request for approval to charge on credit card: if? No ?, 40), debit refused, withdraw the card, go to 38). If? S ?? go to 41). 41), Sending charge for the service to the credit card manager.

42), search the databases for the ordered file.

43), load the ordered file into the memory of the personal computer.

44), unzip the file.

45), send the file to the device suitable for printing the ordered file.

46), print files.

47), delivery of the book, video or audio cassette to the customer.

Since the invention in question? been described and represented only as an indicative and non-limiting example and for the demonstration of its essential characteristics, it is understood that it can? undergo numerous variations according to industrial, commercial and other needs, as well as? include other means systems> all without going out of its scope.

Therefore it must be understood that in the patent application is included every equivalent application of the concepts and every equivalent product implemented and / or operating according to one or more? any of the features indicated in the following claims.

Claims (9)

CLAIMS 1) Electronic-telematic-mechanical system for the sale of literary works, for audio, for video, generally created with texts, sounds and still or moving images and translatable into storable electronic data, characterized by there? that a connected computer is installed at the sales station! with a keyboard, or equivalent means, a monitor and a mass memory ed one or some or all of the equipment for printing on sheets of paper and binding of texts, for recording audio cassettes, video cassettes, compact discs, floppy discs, Smart Cards, optical-magnetic media generally including the computer a program by which, when typed on the keyboard the characteristics corresponding to a specific work, the computer itself retrieves the corresponding data from the mass memory database the requested work and transmits them to the equipment suitable for its production e therefore according to the type of work to one or the other of the suitable equipment a respectively produce literary works on paper media such as books, magazines, newspapers and equivalents, audio cassettes, video cassettes, compact discs, floppy discs optical and magnetic discs, optical-magnetic discs, Smart Cards, optical magnetic media in general. 2) System as per claim 1), characterized by there? which includes electronic means to facilitate direct typing on the keyboard to the user or equivalent means of the characteristics corresponding to a specific work such as codes assigned by the store manager to individual works and part of lists that can be viewed on computer monitors, means for the indication to the user of the amount corresponding to the requested work, means for the direct and automatic delivery to the user of the paid and produced work. 3) System as per claim 1), characterized by there? than a credit card reader or equivalent after verification of the validity? of the card itself, charges the cost to the latter of the operation and to authorize the operation itself to the system. 4) System as per claim 1), characterized by there? what the computer? connected through a modem or a network adapter and telephone lines to one or more? remote memories located in other sales outlets, even in other cities? and in other countries and also in the operational centers of the general organization that manages the service such as publishing houses or other entrepreneurs so that if the data of the requested work is not contained in the nearby mass memory, the computer can? automatically to connect to the remote memory that contains such data, pick them up and transmit them to the equipment located on the place of sale suitable for the production and delivery of the desired work. 5) System as per claim 1), characterized by there? which includes file compressors which before storing the data corresponding to texts, sounds and images on magnetic or optical disks readable by the computer, to compress such data by means of a processing using mathematical algorithms in order to be able to store quantities? very high data and consequently includes decompressors that received the file from the memory transmit it to the computers in its original characteristics. 6) System as per claim 1), characterized by there? that the equipment for recording audio cassettes, video cassettes, compact discs, floppy discs, Smart Cards, optical-magnetic media in general, are equipped with a digital-analog converter which converts the digital signals coming from the computer into analog signals. 7) System as per claim 1), characterized by there? that the equipment for recording audibcassettes, videotapes, compact discs, floppy disks, Smart Cards, optical-magnetic media in general, include an electronic programming, coordination and control card, loaders for blank media respectively of audiocassettes, video-! cassettes, compact discs, floppy discs, Smart Cards, optical-magnetic supports in general, devices for automatic feeding to an electronic recording body and an ejection device which gradually expels the recorded products. 8) System as per claim 1), characterized by there? that the equipment of a literary work such as books, magazines, newspapers and more, includes a high-speed electronic printer, a magazine of sheets of paper, a magazine of covers, a glue dispenser, providing such equipment after printing is finished of the text transmitted by the computer, to apply glue or not to a cover and then to associate or not the block of printed sheets to this cover, giving rise, depending on the case, to a book, a magazine or a newspaper and so Street. 9) System as per claim 1), characterized by there? which includes an automatic kiosk accessible from the outside and adequately protected, equipped with a slot for inserting a credit card, a monitor, a keyboard connected to the computer and various slots for the exit of the - literary work as a book and the like, of audio cassettes, video cassettes, compact discs, floppy discs, Smart Cards, optical-magnetic media in general connected to these slots with automatic means of transfer from the various equipment that produce the various works .