JP3213438B2 - Delivery and display method of visual information - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention is intended to distribute a promotional video such as a video cassette containing a new movie or the like or an introduction video to a number of video rental stores from the head office and to display the same at each store. About the system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a video rental store, a reproducing apparatus for reproducing and displaying a promotion video or a video for introduction of a new video cassette is installed, and a customer can check the contents of the video to borrow by looking at these. You may be doing so. At present, such a video for introduction is delivered from a shipping source to each video rental store using a transportation means such as a truck.

[0003]

However, due to the shortage of labor or soaring labor costs, the delivery of such referral videos must be carried out individually to each store by means of transportation. Not profitable. Also, when using transportation, it takes time from shipping to actually seeing the video at each store, and stores located in areas far from the shipping source are compared to stores in central Tokyo and other places. There is also a problem that the arrival is delayed. In addition, each store must select the required referral video and order it from the sender.

An object of the present invention is to pay attention to this point, and to quickly deliver visual information such as a video for introduction to each store without using a transportation means. An object of the present invention is to propose a visual information delivery / display system that does not require a video order process.

[0005]

According to the present invention, visual information such as an introduction video is delivered from the head office to a plurality of bureaus according to the following procedure. It is displayed. That is, in the method of the present invention, the delivery date and time of the visual information and the recording address on the recording medium in which the delivered visual information is recorded are notified from the head office to each branch office via the telephone line. Alternatively, in addition to this, information about the contents of the visual information is reported. Each branch office prepares to receive and record visual information delivered at the delivery date and time based on the above information. Then, at the delivery date and time, the visual information is transmitted from the head office side to each branch office via a satellite communication line. At each branch office, the transmitted visual information is received and specified.
The visual information is recorded in a recording address , for example, a predetermined address such as a laser disk. And in each branch office,
The recorded visual information is displayed as required by the customer.

The method of the present invention is convenient when employed in a video rental store that rents video cassettes, laser disks, and the like. In this case, the visual information to be delivered is an introduction video such as a movie recorded on a rented video cassette, a laser disk, or the like.

Here, a video rental store has a large number of video cassettes or a large number of laser disks. Therefore, it is desirable to arrange a contrast display means for indicating at which storage address the video cassette or the laser disk corresponding to the delivered introduction image information is stored.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a configuration in which the system of the present invention is applied to a video rental store. As you can see from this figure, the head office 1, which is the source of the introduction video,
Each video rental store 2 is connected via a telephone line 3 and a satellite communication line 4.

The head office 1 has a notification means for notifying the video rental shop 2 via the telephone line 3 of information on the delivery date and time of the video information for introduction and the recording location of the delivered video information. A telephone 5 is provided. Further, a transmitter 6 for transmitting video information to each video rental shop via the satellite communication line 4 is provided.

On the other hand, on the side of each video rental store 2, a plurality of automatic video rental machines 7, which are storage units for storing video cassettes for rental, are installed. Also, the video information transmitted from the head office 1 is received and recorded on a recording medium such as a laser disk,
A video information recording / reproducing device 8 for reproducing and displaying, and a telephone 9 for receiving information on a delivery date and time and a recording location supplied via the telephone line 3 are provided. The video information recording / reproducing device 8 has a built-in recording control circuit 81 for recording video information transmitted from the head office 1 at an address on a designated recording medium. A display device 82 for reproducing and displaying the recorded video information.
Is incorporated.

FIG. 2 is an external view of the video information recording / reproducing machine 8 installed in each video rental store. As shown in the figure, the video information recording / reproducing device 8 has a display screen 82a of a display device 82 arranged on the upper surface thereof, and an operation pad 83 attached to the side thereof.

The head office 1 notifies each video rental store 2 of the date and time of transmission (delivery) of video information and the recording address of the information via the telephone line 3 to the side of each video rental store 2.
When each of the video rental stores 2 receives the information, it determines whether or not the transmitted video information is necessary. If necessary, the video rental store 2 receives the transmitted video information at the transmission time. Video information recording and playback machine 8
Operate. Such operation may be manually performed at that time, or the information may be directly taken into the video information recording / reproducing device 8 from the telephone line and automatically started at that time. You may make it do. When the video information is transmitted (distributed) from the head office via the satellite communication line 4 at the transmission time, the transmitted video information is transmitted to the video information recording / reproducing device in the video rental store 2 in the recording standby state. 8 is recorded in the designated address.

FIG. 3 shows the contents of information transmitted from the main store 1 to each video rental store 2. As shown in this figure, the transmitted information includes a recording address, a title of video information, a creation date, and introduction video information. For example, an introduction relating to movie information of a new video cassette is transmitted with a content of about 15 to 20 seconds.

Here, for example, a comparison table 10 as shown in FIG. 4 is prepared on the side of each video rental store 2. The comparison table 10 is a comparison table indicating where the video cassette corresponding to the introduction video information recorded in the video information recording / reproducing device 8 is stored in the video rental device 7. The comparison table 10 may be manually created. For example, such a comparison table is created on the recording medium via the operation pad 82 of the video information recording / reproducing device 8 and displayed as needed. You may be able to.

After entering the store, the user of the video rental store 2 operates the video information recording / reproducing device 8 to reproduce, for example, introductory video information in the field that he / she wants to rent. By looking at this, you can select the video cassette you want to borrow,
Or you can check the contents of the video cassette you are going to borrow. After the video cassette to be borrowed is determined, the video cassette may be taken out from the storage location of the video rental machine displayed in the above-mentioned comparison table 9.

[0017]

As described above, according to the present invention, information about the delivery date and time of visual information such as video and the recording address of the delivered visual information is notified to each branch using a telephone line. At the delivery date and time, visual information is delivered to each branch using a satellite communication line, and each branch records the delivered visual information at a specified address so that it can be reproduced as needed. ing. Therefore, according to the present invention, there is no need to separately deliver a video cassette or the like containing visual information to each branch using a transportation means as in the related art, which is affected by geographical conditions. Without sending visual information to many branches simultaneously. Also, if the head office notifies the contents of the visual information to be delivered to each branch, each branch can receive and select the necessary visual information based on the information, which is convenient. It is.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing a configuration of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an external view showing a video information recording / reproducing apparatus.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing information content delivered via a satellite communication line.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of a comparison table showing storage positions of video cassettes corresponding to video information recorded in the video information recording and reproducing device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 ... head office 2 ... video rental shop 3 ... telephone line 4 ... satellite communication line 5 ... telephone 6 ... telephone 7 ... automatic video rental machine 8 ... video information recording Reproduction machine 9 ・ ・ ・ Comparison table

Claims (5)

(57) [Claims] 1. A visual information delivery / display method for delivering visual information from a head office to a plurality of bureaus and displaying the visual information delivered at each bureau, comprising the steps of: At least the distribution date and time of the visual information and the recording address on the recording medium where the distributed visual information is recorded are reported from the head office to each branch office . group <br/> Hazuki to prepares the received recording of visual information to be delivered to the delivery date, the delivery date, via the satellite communication line, toward the side of the key station to each branch, transmitting the visual information Each branch office receives the transmitted visual information and records it.
A method for delivering and displaying visual information, characterized by recording the visual information at a designated recording address on a recording medium, and displaying the recorded visual information in response to a request at each branch office. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein:
A method for delivering and displaying visual information, characterized in that information on the contents of the visual information is also notified. 3. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the branch office is a video rental shop for renting a recorded image carrier such as a video cassette or a laser disk, and the visual information to be delivered is based on these images. A visual information delivery / display method, which is introduction image information for introducing image information recorded on a carrier. 4. The video rental store according to claim 3, wherein a contrast display means for distributing the introduction image information and a corresponding storage location of the image carrier is arranged. Delivery and display method of visual information. 5. A visual information for introduction of a recorded image carrier such as a video cassette or a laser disk is delivered from the head office to a plurality of video rental stores, and the visual information delivered at each video rental store is distributed. A delivery / display system for introducing visual information adapted to be displayed, wherein a head office and a plurality of video rental stores are connected via a telephone line and a satellite communication line, respectively, To each video rental store via a telephone line, notification means for notifying the delivery date and time of the introduction visual information and information about the recording address on the recording medium where the delivered visual information is recorded , Delivery means for delivering the visual information to each video rental store via the satellite communication line, wherein each of the video rental stores is for rental. Storage unit for storing the image carrier, recording means for visual information to be delivered, receiving means for receiving information on the delivery date and time and recording address supplied via a telephone line, and the delivery date and time. Recording control means for recording the visual information delivered to the designated recording address of the recording means, display means for displaying the recorded visual information, and an image carrier corresponding to the delivered visual information. And a storage location display means for displaying the location of the storage section.