RU2212051C1 - Electronic item directory - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: electronic data storage systems; directories of items and commodities including display of their functions. SUBSTANCE: electronic directory has medium with electronic page bearing names of items, each item being provided with visual information about its appearance including display of its controls and alphanumeric data on functions of controls; visual information is generated in the form of item operation simulator, item functions being initialized by way of access to respective visual control. Medium may be in the form of compact-disk or hard disk of computer installed at shopping places or on server connected to Internet for submitting information to remote customer. EFFECT: improved self-descriptiveness, facilitated familiarization with item functions. 3 cl, 1 dwg

Description

 The invention relates to electronic information storage systems and can be used as a catalog of products and goods with visualization of their work.

 Known electronic catalogs and other devices that store information about parts and products, in particular graphic, indicating the functionality and features of the product or product (see RU 20979 U1, G 06 F 17/60, 12/10/2001, RU 2119188 C1, G 06 F 17/60, 09/20/1998, US 5839905 A1).

 However, the known devices do not provide for the possibility of visual testing of the product.

 The technical result is an increase in information and ease of familiarization with the functions of the product.

 For this, the electronic catalog contains a carrier with an electronic page with the product names, and for each product name there is visual information of its appearance with the product controls and text information of the functions of the control elements, while the visual information is formed in the form of a product operation simulator, while initialization product functions are made by referring to the corresponding visual control element.

 And also the fact that the carrier is a CD-ROM.

 As well as the fact that the carrier is the hard drive of a computer installed at points of sale of products, or on a server connected to the Internet with the ability to provide information to a remote user.

 The invention is presented in the drawing, which shows the functions of the telephone NOK-IA-THF-11, and is explained further.

In the manufacture and use of the electronic catalog, the following actions are performed:
1) scanning a product’s photo into a computer graphic file or drawing an appearance in a program for creating graphics;
2) using a graphics program creates a visually approximate image of the product;
3) using a program, for example, Macromedia Flash, active (buttons, etc.) and passive (consequences of the buttons) zones of the image are indicated;
4) the creation of logical operations under the picture in the specified program using Action Script;
5) export of the result (graphic ...) to the startup file;
6) output to the screen;
7) the action of the computer mouse on the passive zone;
8) activation of the interface and sending a request to the computer’s central processor for outputting the pictures according to claim 2 to the passive zone of the graphical interface;
9) a request to the memory and return of the data block;
10) loading the screen output into the passive zone of the graphical interface;
11) output to the screen.

 The user is looking for a product on the catalog page for which information is needed. An image of this product appears on the monitor screen with its controls and inscriptions indicating the functions of these controls and completely repeating the physical product itself (actually existing).

 Having initiated one or another control (by clicking a button, "clicking" with the mouse, etc.) on the control image, they launch the program. The screen shows the action that the product performs when exposed to this control.

 Example: an embodiment of the invention is illustrated by the example of a NOKIA-THF-11 telephone.

 When the mouse button is pressed on the screen, the corresponding button changes the information displayed on the phone’s display.

 The implementation of the simulation work - virtual control - is carried out similarly to computer games such as "F-16".

 An information carrier with an electronic catalog can be placed at the points of direct sale of the goods (product) for the buyer to receive comprehensive information about the product or product or on a server connected to the Internet with the ability to provide information to a remote user.

 The media can be a CD-ROM, which allows the buyer to study the catalog at home, because Instructions for managing the product are presented in the most complete form.

Claims (3)

 1. An electronic product catalog containing a medium with an electronic page with product names, and for each product name there is visual information of its appearance with the product controls and text information of the functions of the controls, while the visual information is formed in the form of a product operation simulator, with This initialization of the product functions is done by accessing the corresponding visual control element.  2. The electronic catalog according to claim 1, characterized in that the carrier is a CD-ROM.  3. The electronic catalog according to claim 1, characterized in that the carrier is a hard drive of a computer installed at points of sale of products or on a server connected to the Internet with the ability to provide information to a remote user.

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