JP3021426B1 - Character information transmission / reception system - Google Patents

Abstract

Abstract: [PROBLEMS] Various information such as odds information of horse racing, expected payout information of a soccer lottery, shopping information and ticket reservation information is appropriately displayed on the information display device, and information that is of interest to the public who is present at the place is displayed. Provided is a character information transmitting and receiving system that can transmit answer information based on the information as reply information when the character information is visually recognized. A character information transmitting / receiving system converts character information into a predetermined transmission format and transmits the character information via a public telephone line, and a character information transmitting means via a public telephone line. Character information receiving means 5 for receiving the predetermined character information transmitted from the broadcast station and receiving the second character information by text multiplex broadcasting from a broadcasting station, and selecting any one of the received character information. Character information display means 6 for temporarily displaying on a display unit, and a portable type for transmitting reply information corresponding to the predetermined character information displayed on the display unit of the character information display means 6 via a public telephone line. And terminal means 7.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a character information transmitting and receiving system using a character information display device for displaying various character information, for example, installed in a lobby of a hotel or airport, a waiting room of a station or a hospital, or the like. .

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, teletext multiplex broadcasting technology has been rapidly advanced, and teletext multiplex broadcasting has actually started, and is used for various purposes. As one mode of its use, a character information display device having a receiving means and a display means for text multiplex broadcasting is installed in a place where the public stays for a while, such as a lobby of a hotel or airport, a waiting room of a station or a hospital, and news, If information such as a weather forecast is displayed, timely information can be provided to many people in real time, which is preferable in terms of serviceability.

On the other hand, there is a demand to display, for example, a CM, a quiz, and the like at a desired timing and for a desired time separately from a public broadcast. And public announcements such as weather forecasts and those produced separately, for example, C
An information display device in which M, quiz, and the like are alternatively displayed on the information display device has already been disclosed (Japanese Patent Application No. 10-100635).

In such a situation, odds information of horse racing, expected payout information of soccer lottery, shopping information and ticket reservation information are appropriately displayed on the information display device, and a public present at the place is based on the information. If there is a system that transmits answer information as reply information, for example, a system that can perform winning horse voting based on horse racing odds information, the information display device is installed in various places where the public gathers Therefore, without the public actively performing access operations to obtain information,
When interesting information is visually recognized, a reply operation to the information can be easily performed, which is extremely convenient.

[0005]

[0006] On the other hand, various environmental image display devices that are conventionally installed in the lobby of hotels and airports, the waiting rooms of train stations and hospitals, etc., and provide fun and comfort to people who stay there for a while have been known. For example, by combining a video display device that displays a falling waterfall on a monitor, a monitor that displays an image recording the swimming of fish, etc., a half mirror, and a water tank, it is as if the fish in the water tank An image display device configured as if swimming.
Is known.

[0007] If the above-mentioned information display device for displaying news, weather forecast, CM, quiz, and the like can be combined with the video display device that attracts many people's eyes, it will be enjoyable for many people. Necessary information can be given together with the comfort, so that the serviceability can be greatly improved, and the function as an advertising medium can also be exerted greatly.

The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and various kinds of information such as odds information of horse racing, expected payout information of soccer lottery, shopping information and ticket reservation information are appropriately displayed on the information display device. When information that is of interest to the public present at the place is viewed, character information transmission / reception that can send answer information based on the information as reply information and simultaneously provide many people with enjoyment and peace of mind It is intended to provide a system.

[0009]

[Means for Solving the Problems]

A character information transmitting / receiving system according to the present invention converts predetermined character information into a predetermined transmission format and receives the predetermined character information transmitting means and the predetermined character information transmitted via a public telephone line. Character information receiving means for receiving second character information by text multiplex broadcasting from a broadcasting station, and character information display means for selectively displaying any one of the received character information on a display unit. Portable terminal means for transmitting, via a public telephone line, reply information corresponding to the predetermined character information displayed on the display unit of the character information display means.

Further, the predetermined character information can be odds information of a horse race or expected payout information relating to a sports betting.

[0012] The portable terminal means may be a portable telephone device.

Further, the character information display means may be an electric light display.

[0014] The character information display means can be arranged so as to be provided adjacent to an image display for displaying an image.

In addition, the character information display means comprises a video display for displaying a video, and the super character which superimposes the predetermined character information and the second character information on a video signal inputted to the video display. It is possible to provide a pause unit.

Further, the character information display means is constituted by a divided area of a display screen of an image display device for displaying an image, and the image is displayed in the remaining area of the display screen. Is possible.

Further, it is possible that the image is related to an environmental image.

[0018]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, a character information transmitting / receiving system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of the character information transmitting / receiving system of the present embodiment.

As shown, the character information transmitting / receiving system 3 includes a character information transmitting means 4 for converting predetermined character information into a predetermined transmission format and transmitting the predetermined character information via a public telephone line. A character information receiving means 5 for receiving the predetermined character information transmitted via a public telephone line, and receiving second character information by text multiplex broadcasting from a broadcasting station; Character information display means 6 for selectively displaying character information on a display unit, and reply information corresponding to the predetermined character information displayed on the display unit of the character information display means 6 through a public telephone line. Reply information transmitted from the portable terminal means 7 via the public telephone line is received by the reply information receiving means 8.

Next, a specific configuration of the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 2 shows a plurality of information receiving and displaying devices 1 each having a signal receiving section 1a comprising the character information receiving means 5 and an information displaying section 1b comprising the character information displaying means 6. Character information such as odds information of a horse race and expected payout information of a soccer lottery is transmitted from a character information transmitting device 2 (character information transmitting means 4) disposed in a character information transmission management center to each information receiving and displaying device 1 to a public telephone. The transmission via the line 100 is shown. On the other hand, each information receiving and displaying device 1 has a function of receiving a public radio wave 200 superimposed on a character multiplex signal transmitted from a television broadcasting station.

Each of the information receiving and displaying devices 1 is installed in a place where the public stays for a while, such as a lobby of a hotel or airport, a waiting room of a station or a hospital, etc., as shown in FIG.
The signal receiving unit 1a and the information display unit 1b are mounted in the rack housing 50. Specifically, the signal receiving unit 1a includes a receiving unit 41 that receives character information transmitted via the public telephone line 100 and the public radio wave 200, and performs a display switching operation of these character information and a driving operation of the information display. And a controller 42 for performing the operation. The information display section 1b is a DVD
A player 33; a color TV monitor 51 for displaying video information from the DVD player 33;
A half mirror 52 that reflects an image from a monitor 51 and transmits an image of a background 55 illuminated by a light source 54, and a DV synthesized by the half mirror 52.
An image display section 32 having a glass panel 53 for making the image of the background 55 and the image information from the D player 33 visible to the viewer, and an electric display panel for scrolling the character information at the top of the apparatus. 31.

With this information receiving and displaying device 1, the viewer can
For example, it is possible to obtain peace by watching the swimming of fish in the water projected on the image display unit 32, and at the same time, news by characters and figures displayed on the electric light display panel 31, weather forecast, commercials of companies, Furthermore, timely information such as odds information on horse racing immediately before running and predicted payout information on soccer lots immediately before the start of the game can be obtained in real time.

As described above, the information receiving and displaying device 1 is installed in various places where the public stays for a while or in various places where the public can easily see the information. Various information displayed by the display device 1 can be obtained. There are many horse racing fans and soccer fans in these publics. Many people want to make a purchase.

Therefore, in the present system, voting for a winning horse or purchasing a soccer lottery performed in accordance with odds information or expected payout information is performed by an input key operation from the portable telephone 70. That is, the input operation from the portable telephone 70 refers to, for example, the above-mentioned horse racing odds information and the like, the place name, the race name, the type, the frame number, the horse number, the amount, and the like are displayed on the LCD display section 70a shown in FIG. Is displayed, the displayed information is temporarily stored in a memory, a predetermined winning horse voting center 80 is called, and a predetermined registered I
The winning horse voting information stored in the memory together with the D number is sent to the winning horse voting center 80 via the public telephone line 300.
By sending it to

The purchase of a soccer lottery is performed in the same procedure.

For example, in accordance with shopping information and ticket reservation information provided in the same manner as the odds information and the like, the portable telephone 70 may be used to perform a product purchase or ticket reservation input operation.

Next, the internal configuration of an information providing system including the information receiving and displaying device 1 will be described with reference to FIG.

As shown in FIG. 3, the character information transmitting apparatus 2 provided in the character information transmitting management center includes a CPU 11
A keyboard 12 connected to the CPU 11, a display control unit 13, a memory 15 composed of a storage medium storing information on horse racing odds to be transmitted, and a telephone number of each information receiving and displaying device 1 to be transmitted are stored. It comprises a telephone number memory 16, a modem 17 for transmitting horse racing information and the like to the public telephone line 100, and a CRT display 14 connected to the display control unit 13.

As the horse racing information, timely information provided by, for example, a JRA-certified institution is stored in the memory 15 as a predetermined transmission form.

The character information transmitting apparatus 2 configured as described above
Is information to be transmitted from various character information such as odd information stored in the memory 15 by operating the keyboard 12 while the operator looks at the CRT display 14;
The transmission time and the time to be transmitted can be selected and set as appropriate. The conditions set once are written in a table in a memory in the CPU 11 so that predetermined information can be automatically transmitted to the public telephone line 100 via the modem 17 at a predetermined time.

Further, the telephone number memory 16 has a table in which the telephone number is written for each type of the place where the information receiving and displaying device 1 is installed, and the information to be transmitted and the telephone number table of the telephone number memory 16 are stored. Is stored in a memory in the CPU 11, and the predetermined information can be set so as to be transmitted only to the information receiving and displaying device 1 arranged at a predetermined installation location. Thereby, for example, a large amount of travel goods information or the like is transmitted to the information reception display device 1 installed in the lobby of the airport, or the information reception display device 1 installed in the waiting room of the hospital.
For each place where the information receiving and displaying device 1 is installed, such as transmitting a lot of health information and CM information of health care products,
Alternatively, different information can be transmitted at different predetermined times.

Next, each information receiving and displaying device 1 will be described in detail. First, the signal receiving unit 1a includes: a CPU 21;
A modem 22, a first memory 23, a second memory 24, a display information switching unit 25, a tuner 26, an information display drive unit 27 for sending character information to the electric display panel 31, and a television broadcast connected to the CPU 21. An antenna 28 for receiving public radio waves from a station and an antenna connector 29 for connecting the antenna 28 to the tuner 26 are provided.

That is, the signal receiving section 1a receives, by the modem 22, character information such as horse race odds information transmitted from the character information transmitting device 2 disposed in the character information transmission management center via the public telephone line 100. Then, the data is sent to the CPU 21 as data.

Thereafter, the CPU 21 stores character information data such as horse racing odds information (hereinafter referred to as first character information data) in the first memory 23.

On the other hand, this signal receiving section 1a is a public radio wave (a radio wave on which teletext broadcasting is superimposed) 2 from a television broadcasting station.
00 is received by the tuner 26, and desired character information data (character news, weather forecast, etc .; hereinafter, referred to as second character information data) superimposed on the public radio wave 200 is selected by the tuner 26. It is sent to the CPU 21. Thereafter, the CPU 21 stores the second character information data in the second memory 24.

Next, based on the display information switching signal from the display information switching unit 25, the CPU 21 determines which of the first character information data and the second character information data is to be displayed, and When displaying data, the first memory 23 is accessed. When displaying the second character information data, the second memory 24 is accessed, and the character information data stored in each of the memories 23, 24 is read. The information is sent to the information display drive unit 27.

The information display drive unit 27 causes the data sent from the CPU 21 to be scroll-displayed on the electronic display panel 31, thereby providing the viewer with various information such as text news, weather forecast information, and horse racing odds information. Can be visually recognized.

The above-mentioned first and second memories 23 may be memory elements such as a RAM, a hard disk or a removable disk (FD, MO, CD).
-RW or the like).

The information display switching unit 25 includes:
It is sufficient if the CPU 21 can transmit a signal that can determine which of the two memories 23 and 24 is to be accessed, and the output of the signal may be performed by a preset program. Alternatively, it may be performed according to the operation of the operator.

In this embodiment, the CPU 21
Performs the data read operation of the two memories 23 and 24, but it is of course possible to provide a separate memory access means such as a DMA.

Next, the information display section 1b will be described.
The information display section 1b includes an electronic display panel 31 for displaying the character information data described above, a DVD player 33, and a video display section 32 for displaying video information from the DVD player 33.

The light-emitting display panel 31 has a VSD (fluorescent display tube) or an LED that emits green, red, or orange light, for example, 264 dots (W) × 24 dots (H).
Is a rectangular display unit for simultaneously displaying, for example, about 11 letters, numbers, symbols, illustrations, and the like, and scrolling these letters and the like for news, weather forecast, horse racing, etc. It represents various information such as information.

The image display section 32 has a structure as shown in FIG. 4 as described above, and is based on image software reproduced by the DVD player 33. The typical space is projected on the entire screen.

The light-emitting display panel 31 is L
The present invention is not limited to the arrangement of the ED elements, but may be any as long as a plurality of characters are simultaneously displayed and a scroll function is allowed. For example, an LCD (liquid crystal display panel) may be used instead.

Further, the portable terminal means of the present invention includes:
In addition to a so-called mobile phone, a PHS phone, a phone using satellite communication, and a portable personal computer having a communication function can be used.

The configuration of the video display section 32 is not limited to the above-described configuration. The point is that the video display section 32 can display a desired video adjacent to the display of character information data. Instead, a liquid crystal display or a plasma display can of course be used, and the arrangement may be such that an image projected on the display surface can be viewed directly without using a half mirror.

Further, the video reproducing means for reproducing the video information data to be transmitted to the video display unit 32 is not limited to a DVD player.
When an LD, a CD, or the like is used, a VTR, an LD player, a CD player, or the like can be used.

Note that the character information receiving and displaying system of the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment.
Various other modifications are possible.

For example, in the above-described embodiment, the character information and the like are displayed on the electronic display panel 31 and the video information is displayed on the video display section 32. However, as shown in FIG. It is also possible to have a superimposed inside, which makes the device more compact. Furthermore, the image display screen may be divided at a predetermined ratio, and only one piece of information (for example, upper area) may be displayed with only text information, and the other area (for example, lower area) may be displayed with only video information. It is possible.

Further, in the character information transmitting apparatus 2 described above, the sorting table of the telephone number memory 16 is not limited to the sorting table according to the place where the information receiving and displaying apparatus 1 is installed. Can be a table partitioned by any element of

[0053]

[0054]

As described above, according to the character information transmitting and receiving system of the present invention, various information such as horse racing odds information, soccer lottery expected payout information, shopping information and ticket reservation information can be obtained at desired timing. Only for the time
It can be provided to the public who is present near each character information receiving and displaying device, and furthermore, the public provided with this information responds to this information, such as winning horse voting, lottery purchase, merchandise purchase, ticket reservation, etc. Can be performed based on an input from a portable telephone, so that the above-described processing can be easily performed during a waiting time at a place where the user is traveling, which is extremely convenient.

Further, by combining the display of the character information with the display of an image such as an environmental image, it is possible to simultaneously provide the public with comfort and enjoyment, and to call attention to various character information, thereby promoting an advertisement function. Can be further strengthened.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a character information transmitting / receiving system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram showing a character information transmitting / receiving system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of the portable telephone device shown in FIG. 2;

4A and 4B are schematic diagrams showing a specific configuration of the information reception display device shown in FIG. 2, wherein FIG. 4A is a front view, and FIG. 4B is a side view when a side panel is removed.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram conceptually showing the internal configuration of the information receiving and displaying device shown in FIG. 2;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram showing a modification of the information receiving and displaying device shown in FIG. 4;

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 information receiving and displaying device 1 a signal receiving unit 1 b information displaying unit 2 character information transmitting device 3 television broadcasting station 4 character information transmitting means 5 character information receiving means 6 character information displaying means 7 portable terminal means 8 reply information receiving means 9 character information Transmission / reception system 11, 21 CPU 16 Telephone number memory 17, 22 Modem 23 First memory 24 Second memory 25 Display information switching unit 26 Tuner 27 Information display drive unit 28 Antenna 31 Electric light display panel 32 Video display unit 33 DVD player 41 Receiver 42 Controller 51 Color TV monitor 52 Half mirror 53 Glass panel 55 Background 70 Mobile phone 70a Display 80 Winning horse voting center

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Claims (8)

(57) [Claims] 1. A character information transmitting means for converting predetermined character information into a predetermined transmission format and transmitting the predetermined character information via a public telephone line, and said predetermined character information transmitted via a public telephone line. While receiving the text information, the second by text multiplex broadcasting from the broadcasting station
Character information receiving means for receiving the character information, character information display means for selectively displaying any of the received character information on a display unit, and displaying on the display unit of the character information display means Character information transmitting / receiving system, comprising: portable terminal means for transmitting, via a public telephone line, reply information corresponding to the predetermined character information. 2. A character information transmission and reception system according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined character information is expected distribution information according to the odds information or sports betting horse racing. Wherein said portable terminal means, character information transmission and reception system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein it is a portable telephone device. Wherein any of the claims 1-3, wherein the character information display means is characterized by comprising the electronic display unit 1
Character information transmission / reception system described in section. Wherein said text display means, character information transmission and reception system according to claim 4, characterized in that provided adjacent to the video display for displaying images. Wherein said text display means comprises a video display unit for displaying an image, said predetermined character information and said second
The character information transmitting / receiving system according to any one of claims 1 to 3 , further comprising a superimposing unit that superimposes the character information of ( 2) on a video signal input to the video display. 7. The character information display means comprises one area obtained by dividing a display screen of a video display for displaying a video,
Character information transmission and reception system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that to display the the video to the remaining area of the display screen. 8. The character information transmission and reception system according to any one of claims 5-7, wherein the image is related to the environment image.