WO1998021708A1

WO1998021708A1 - Information presenting system and recording medium

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Publication number: WO1998021708A1
Application number: PCT/JP1997/000238
Authority: WO
Inventors: Michio Sakai; Tomoo Kunikyo; Tomoko Saeki
Original assignee: Mac Research Corporation
Priority date: 1996-11-14
Filing date: 1997-01-31
Publication date: 1998-05-22
Also published as: AU1557397A; JPH10143104A

Abstract

An information presenting system is constituted of a picture generating terminal (2) connected to a contents provider (1) through a wide-area network WN, an emergency information inputting terminal (3) for inputting information generated in an emergent state, an external information inputting section (4) for inputting, for example, media information from a CATV network, a change-over switch (5) which outputs either the inputted media information or the output of the terminal (2) as necessary, a plurality of receiving boxes (6) which receive the output information from the switch (5), and display devices (7) which display the output information of the boxes (6). The contents and their presenting schedule are independent of each other and are distributed by using a portable recording medium MEM or through the network WN. Therefore, an information presenting system presents exact information meeting the demands and the distributing cost of the contents is low.

Description

Description Information presentation system and recording medium

The present invention relates to an information display system capable of effectively displaying information to an unspecified number of people, such as, for example, product advertisement, guidance, communication, news reporting, and education. Background art

There are many posters and signs for advertisements of goods or services for unspecified number of people in the waiting room at the station or in the advertisement display area of vehicles. In addition, hospitals, beauty salons, pharmacies, public bureaus, and waiting rooms at various event-providing venues have information guide leaflets for unspecified users. On the street, photos of various products and services are displayed in the shop's show window for an unspecified number of people coming and going. In addition, at restaurants, you can see the food and drinks being offered to customers in the form of purchase notes.

These posters, information guides, photographs, and bills for advertisements (hereinafter referred to as advertisements) can be easily created or mass-produced by using paper as a medium. For this reason, there is an advantage that information can be easily presented from an information presenter of an advertisement or the like to an unspecified number of people (hereinafter, consumers, etc.).

However, the content of advertisements and the like using paper as a medium is fixed. For this reason, if the content is to be changed afterwards, advertisements, etc. must be created again from the beginning. It is good if the display area for advertisements can be secured widely, but for example, in the case of a public institution such as a station, the display area to which one advertiser can contract is small. Not as large. In addition, the content of advertisements, etc. that can be expressed on media is limited. This has the disadvantage that the content that the advertiser really wants to convey cannot be fully communicated to others.

On the other hand, from the standpoint of consumers, etc., it will be tired to see advertisements etc. of the same content over the long term, or just to arrange similar types of advertisements. In addition, when viewing a large number of advertisements in a large display area, there was a problem that the user had to walk around.

Therefore, recently, various systems for presenting information using computer system technology have been proposed.

For example, an "advertising system" is strongly proposed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 5-314172 (conventional example 1). This advertising system is equipped with a display device, an input data terminal for inputting content, and a data processing device with a communication function. When an advertiser inputs content from the input data terminal, this is communicated. The data is transmitted to a data processing device via a line and converted into a display data. The display data is sent to the display device, and the content is displayed.

Further, an “information display system” is proposed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 7-36939 (conventional example 2). In this information display system, required display data, that is, content, is generated by a display signal generation unit based on an information signal input from an information input unit. Further, the type of the input information is determined by comparing the information signal input from the information input unit with a predetermined information type. Then, based on the result of the determination, the contents are switched and output, and stored in a memory or the like for each information type. Further, these are read out at any time and displayed on a corresponding display device. The information input unit can also capture image images, and the display mode can be set arbitrarily. Each of the above-described conventional examples has an advantage that cannot be realized by a paper medium or the like, but leaves the following problems.

For example, in the case of Conventional Example 1, content is simultaneously displayed on a plurality of display devices. For this reason, if a part of the content or display order of a certain display device is changed, the contents of all the display devices are changed at the same time. In addition, the range in which this technology can be applied is considerably limited, as is the location where the display device is installed, for example, the content cannot be different for each store.

In the case of Conventional Example 2, there was an operational problem. In other words, when displaying contents to an unspecified number of people, it is desirable to repeatedly read and display a plurality of contents from a memory or the like. However, in the case where the content stored in the conventional example 2 is repeatedly displayed on another display device, a necessary operation must be performed each time in the data input unit, and it is not troublesome.

Further, both of the conventional examples 1 and 2 have the following disadvantages.

(1) Data input devices are installed at retail stores, service member stores, police stations, municipal offices, banks, securities companies, etc. Created and edited. For this reason, it is not always possible to quickly and accurately prepare content with a high presentation effect.

(2) If content is distributed by communication means, the cost required for communication increases, and the system price cannot be reduced.

(3) When a large number of contents are repeatedly displayed, a required information signal must be input each time, and a series of information cannot be automatically displayed.

The present invention solves the above conventional problems at a stretch, and provides a plurality of contents. It is an object of the present invention to provide an improved information presentation technology that can change the contents of the information at any time to enable accurate information presentation according to demand, and that can reduce the cost of content distribution. Make it an issue. Disclosure of the invention

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides an information presentation system having a plurality of information processing terminals. In this information presenting system, each information processing terminal includes a means for editing the content, a schedule creating means for creating a presentation schedule of the edited content, and decoding of the created presentation schedule and defining the presentation schedule. Means for specifying the location of the specified content, and output means for outputting the specified content according to the presentation order of the presentation schedule. The edited content and presentation schedule are edited or created so that they can be moved independently between information processing terminals.

Preferably, the output means is configured to repeatedly output the content corresponding to the presentation schedule. Further, it is preferable that the display device be configured at least by a display device that displays images. This display device is provided with means for acquiring the media information other than the edited content, and a switch for switching and displaying the acquired media information and the content. As the media information, for example, information received from a commercial broadcast or information received from a CATV network is used. In this case, the switch is configured to display each received information according to a presentation schedule.

The information processing terminal, which is in charge of the operation control of the display device among the plurality of information processing terminals, includes: a monitoring unit that monitors an output state of the content; Control means, It is composed. In this way, for example, when the output state of the content to be displayed becomes abnormal, it is possible to automatically switch to the media information, and the convenience of the person watching the display screen is achieved. be able to.

The present invention also provides an information presentation system in which the above configuration is simplified. The information presentation system includes at least a portable recording medium on which contents are recorded, a plurality of content reproducing apparatuses for reading and reproducing the recorded contents of the portable recording medium, and control means for controlling an operation of each of the content reproducing apparatuses. And wherein the control means is configured to start the content reproducing apparatus in a presentation order defined in a presentation schedule that exists independently of the content. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an information presentation system according to a first embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a functional block configuration diagram of a content provider, and FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of a processing procedure in a time table creation unit. FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of the processing procedure in the schedule table creation unit, FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of the relationship between the content, the time table, and the schedule table, and FIG. 6 is a diagram of the image generating terminal. FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of a processing procedure of a schedule execution unit in the image generation terminal, FIG. 8 is a detailed configuration diagram of a receiving box and a display device, and FIG. 9 is a functional block diagram of the present invention. FIG. 10 is a configuration diagram of an information presentation system according to the second embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 10 is a configuration diagram of an information presentation system according to the third embodiment of the present invention. BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described.

(First Embodiment) FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a first embodiment of the information presentation system of the present invention. The information presentation system of this embodiment inputs a content provider 1, an image generation terminal 2 connected to the content provider 1 via a wide area network WN, and urgently generated information to the image generation terminal 2. Terminal 3 for inputting emergency information, external information input unit 4 for inputting media information, etc. from external commercial broadcasting and CATV networks, and output of media information and image generation terminal 2 from external information input unit 4 A switching switch 5 for switching and outputting as necessary, a plurality of receiving boxes 6 for receiving output information of the switching switch 5 sent by the communication cable LC, and a display device 7 for displaying output information of the receiving box 6. It is comprised including.

The symbol MEM is a portable recording medium such as a magneto-optical disk CD-ROM (compact disk type ROM) on which contents are recorded.

The content provider 1 is an information processing terminal that can operate by installing a computer program recorded on a recording medium such as a CD-ROM into an internal hard disk or the like. Then, a required functional block is realized by a microprocessor (not shown) executing the computer program. This recording medium is subject to market transactions independently of the information processing terminal.

The configuration of this functional block is as shown in FIG. In other words, the content provider 1 includes a content creation unit 11 that generates content by external collection or internal planning, a content editing unit 12 that classifies and edits a plurality of created content, and a content editing unit 12 that edits each content. Content storage unit 13 that stores data so that it can be read at any time, a time table creation unit that creates a time table that defines the content display order to be used, display time, etc.14, a time table storage unit that stores created time tables 15.Scheduling schedule using multiple timetables, for example, monthly Schedule table creation unit 16 that creates the schedule table, schedule table storage unit 17 that stores the created schedule table, and the image generation terminal 2 can process the above time table, schedule table, and the corresponding content. It has a function of a data output unit 18 that converts the data into data of a simple format and outputs the converted data.

FIG. 3 shows a processing procedure in the time table creation unit 14.

The time table creation unit 14 first opens a new or existing time table (step S101), and refers to the list of listed contents (step S102). Specifically, a list of content titles and the like stored in the content storage unit 13 is displayed on the screen by a window operation. Then, a desired content is specified by, for example, a pointing device (step S103). At this time, if necessary, a specific content may be selected using a search means. For the specified content, information such as the title, display time, and classification is obtained from the content storage unit 13 and is restored on the open time table (step S104). Titles, etc. can be attached or modified after listing. If there is another content to be used, the processing from step S102 is repeated (step S105). After listing all the used contents, an ID (identification information) is added to the time table and stored in the time table storage unit 15 (step S106).

FIG. 4 shows a processing procedure in the schedule table creation unit 16. The schedule table creation section 16 first opens the schedule table (step S201), and determines the display date (step S202). The display date is represented by, for example, YY, MM, DD (year, month, day). Next, a list of the time tables stored in the time table storage unit 15 is referred to. (Step S203). Specifically, a list of time tables stored in the time table storage unit 15 is displayed on a screen by a window operation. Then, for example, a desired time table is specified by a pointing device (step S204), and this is listed in the open schedule table (step S205). If another time table is to be used, the processing from step S202 is repeated (step S206). After listing all the necessary time tables, an ID is assigned to the schedule table, and this is stored in the schedule table storage unit 17 (step S207).

Fig. 5 shows an example of the time table and schedule table created in this way. In the figure, C is a content, TT is a time table, and ST is a schedule table. In the data output unit 18, they are implemented in the wide area network WN or portable recording medium MEM independently of the content C (for image generation). Recording in a format that can be read by the terminal 2 side, the same applies hereinafter). However, as shown in the figure, it is necessary that the location of the corresponding content C can be specified from the title name of the time table TT or the time table name of the schedule table ST.

In this way, by making the content C, the timetable TT, and the schedule table SΤ independent, the following distribution form becomes possible.

(1) When distributing content, etc. from the content provider 1 to the image generation terminal 2, only the content is distributed in advance in the portable recording medium MEM, and the time table and schedule table use the wide area network WN. Distributed by communication. In this way, the communication cost can be reduced as compared with the case where all the components are distributed as a bundle.

(2) Part of the content, such as environmental video that can be reused repeatedly It is delivered to the image generation terminal 2 in advance, and the content provider 1 sends a time table and a schedule table and additional contents (latest contents) by communication. By doing so, retransmission of the same information can be prevented, and the occurrence of extra costs can be suppressed.

(3) The content and the timetable are sent from the content provider 1 to the image generation terminal 2, and the image generation terminal 2 independently creates a schedule table to reproduce and display the content. However, in this case, it is necessary to provide the function of the schedule table creation unit 16 described above in the image generation terminal 2.

The item “Emergency information” is provided in the time table TT in FIG. Then, when the order comes to this item, the image generation terminal 2 presents urgent information that is occasionally generated on the terminal 2 side, for example, information such as an urgent hospital notification.

Next, the image generation terminal 2 will be described.

The image generation terminal 2 of this embodiment loads the content, the time table, and the schedule table from the content provider 1 at the time of startup or upon input of an instruction from an operator. At this time, the same kind of content that already exists is updated, and image information is always generated based on the latest information. Like the content provider 1, the image generation terminal 2 is also capable of operating by installing a computer program recorded on a recording medium such as a CD-ROM into an internal hard disk or the like. Terminal. Then, a required functional block is realized by a microphone opening processor (not shown) executing the computer program. This recording medium is also subject to market transactions independently of the information processing terminal.

The configuration of the functional blocks in the image generation terminal 2 is as shown in Fig. 6. It is. In other words, a time monitoring unit 21 that monitors the current time, a schedule execution unit 22 that executes the contents of the schedule table based on the time notified from the time monitoring unit 21, and stores emergency information such as hospital notices The execution status monitoring unit 25 monitors the execution status of the schedule execution unit 22, that is, the output status of the content, etc. A device having the function of an output control unit 26 that switches any of the content and emergency information and the media information from the external information input unit 4 and selects the receiving box 6 that is the output destination of the switched information. It has become. The selection of the receiving box 6 can be realized, for example, by allocating the band of the receiving box 6 to information to be output.

When outputting the still image / media information, the output control unit 26 outputs the information to the communication cable LC in the form of an NTSC signal. The processing procedure by the schedule execution unit 22 is as shown in FIG. Referring to FIG. 7, first, the schedule execution unit 22 refers to the loaded schedule table (step S301), and the time notified from the time monitoring unit 21 is used as the schedule table. It is determined whether or not the presentation start time has been reached (step S302). If the presentation start time has not been reached (S302: No), an instruction is issued to the output control unit 26 to output media information from the external information input unit 4, for example, commercial broadcast reception information. (Step S303). On the other hand, when it is confirmed that the presentation start time has been reached (S302: Yes), the time table specified in the schedule table is referred to (step S304), and the content storage section is referred to. The corresponding content in 24 or the corresponding information in the emergency information storage unit 23 is specified (step S305). Then, it instructs the output control section 26 to output the corresponding content or the like (step S306). Then, determine if there is the next content in the timetable.

(Step S307) If there is, the process returns to Step S305. When the next content is lost, it is determined whether or not there is a next time table (step S308), and if there is, the process returns to step S304. If the next timetable is exhausted, it is checked whether the end time has been reached (step S309), and if not, the process returns to step S306 (step S309: No). . In other words, it returns to the first timetable of the schedule table and outputs the corresponding content. This is repeated continuously until the end time is reached. When the end time has been reached (step S309: Yes), an instruction to output external information is issued (step 310). The execution status monitoring unit 25 monitors the above-described series of processing procedures in the schedule execution unit 22. Then, when the content or the like is not output due to some abnormality, an instruction is issued to output information from the external information input unit 4 regardless of the order specified in the schedule table.

Returning to Fig. 1, the emergency information input terminal 3 is used to store the emergency information generated independently at the installation location of the image generation terminal 2 in the emergency information storage unit 23 of the image generation terminal 2. It is a processing terminal. This emergency information input terminal 3 is usually operated by a so-called amateur-level person, so that even if an abnormal state occurs due to erroneous operation, the operation of the entire system is not affected. It is provided separately from the generation terminal 2. Examples of the emergency information created by the emergency information creation terminal 3 include, for example, notification information such as a change in medical treatment contents or a special holiday notice / a notice of a change in a medical treatment fee in a hospital.

The switch 5 can switch the media information from the external information input unit 4 independently of the processing in the schedule execution unit 22. FIG. 8 is a configuration diagram of the receiving box 6. The receiving box 6 includes a local information generating terminal 61 that constantly outputs local information unique to the installation site, for example, environmental images in the NTSC signal format, and an image generating terminal 2 that is transmitted through a communication cable LC. A receiving device 62 for receiving a signal from the external information input unit 4 or a signal from the external information input unit 4 and a local switching switch 63 are provided. The receiving device 62 is a tuner when the communication cable LC is a CATV cable, and selectively receives a signal in a band allocated to the receiving box 6.

The low-power switching switch 63 is, for example, an intelligent switch. Then, based on the result of monitoring the state of the signal received by the receiving device 62 (the presence or absence of a horizontal synchronization signal or a vertical synchronization signal included in the output signal from the image generation terminal 2), a failure occurs autonomously. Is detected, and the signal output to the display device 7 is selectively switched according to the detection result.

The mode of switching by the local switching switch 63 is as follows.

(1) In normal times, that is, when the horizontal synchronizing signal or the vertical synchronizing signal is normal, the output information from the image generating terminal 2 is directly output to the display device 7.

(2) If the switching switch 5 and the communication cable L C are normal, but the image generation terminal 2 is abnormal, switch to external input information and output to the display device 7 O

(3) When the switching switch 5 or the communication cable LC is abnormal, the information is switched to the output information of the local information creation terminal 61 and output to the display device 7.

By doing so, even when no content or the like reaches the reception box 6, some kind of video is always displayed on the display device 7, and the troublesome display is not continued. . The display device 7 includes an image display unit and an audio output unit, displays information from the receiving box 6 on a screen, and outputs audio as needed. The image display unit has a display panel to which a bandwidth of about 6 Mbps is allocated so that moving images and semi-moving images can be displayed, for example, a display device of a projection type, a large plasma display device, and a screen of a liquid crystal display device. Using an optical fiber.

The above configuration can be changed in design as appropriate. For example, in the above description, the content provider 1 only creates the content and the like, and the image generation terminal 2 only reproduces the content and the like. The functions of the second side may be added, or functions relating to content creation and editing may be added to the image generation terminal 2. In this way, for example, only the timetable / schedule table can be transmitted / received by communication, or the schedule table can be arbitrarily created on the image generation terminal 2 side, and a highly flexible information presentation system can be provided. System can be realized.

(Second embodiment)

FIG. 9 is a configuration diagram of a second embodiment of the information presentation system of the present invention, in which the configuration of the image generation terminal 2 is simplified.

In this embodiment, the content emergency information created by the content provider 1 is recorded on a digital video disk (DVD) and delivered to the image generating terminal 2 side. At this time, the time table and the schedule table may be created in the image generation terminal 2 in advance, or may be created in the content provider 1 and included in the DVD. In an output stage of the image generation terminal 2, a plurality of disc reproducing devices 8a to 8c controlled by the image generation terminal 2 are arranged. The display devices 9a to 9c are arranged in a one-to-one correspondence with the disc reproducing devices 8a to 8c, respectively. Display or audio output is performed.

In this case, the image generating terminal 2 functions as control means for the disk reproducing devices 8a to 8c. That is, each of the disk reproducing devices 8a to 8c to which the DVD is mounted is individually controlled to reproduce the content according to the above-mentioned schedule table. Alternatively, the same DVD is loaded in each of the disk reproducing devices 8a to 8c, and after the operation of the first disk reproducing device 8 starts, the second disk reproducing device 8b and the third disk reproducing device 8c are sequentially arranged for a certain period of time. The same content may be activated in a time-delayed manner, and the same content may be reproduced in chronological order and sequentially displayed on each of the display devices 9a and 9c. Such a reproduction mode is more effective in encouraging viewers, and can be applied to advertisement display and the like.

(Third embodiment)

FIG. 10 shows a configuration example of the information presentation system according to the third embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, an information presentation system is realized by a client-server type system. That is, one server terminal SB and a plurality of client terminals CL 1 to CL 3 are connected by a communication cable LC 1 such as an Ethernet, and the above-mentioned emergency information input terminal 3 is connected to the server terminal SB. Connected directly. Elements having the same function in the first and second embodiments are denoted by the same reference numerals.

The server terminal SB is a terminal that controls the operation or information flow of the clients CL1 to CL3 and other peripheral components (not shown). Then, all information such as the content schedule from the content provider is collected here and distributed to each of the client terminals CL1 to CL3 as needed. Alternatively, the server terminal SB can function as a content provider.

The emergency information input terminal 3 is as described above. Is separated from other information processing terminals (client terminals CL1 to CL3) other than the server terminal SB in terms of processing. Furthermore, the terminal is independent of the server terminal SB so that even if an abnormal state occurs due to erroneous operation, etc., it does not affect the operation of the entire system.

The client terminals CL1 to CL3 are terminals having the function of the image generation terminal 2 described above. Then, upon start-up or when a command is input from the operator, the server terminal SB downloads the content, emergency information, time table, and schedule table, and executes necessary processing. At this time, the same kind of content that already exists is updated. The output of each of the client terminals CL1 to CL3 is led to the switching switches 51 to 53 together with the output of the external information input unit 4, and one of them is selectively switched to be output.

A mixing output unit 10 is arranged at the subsequent stage of each of the switching switches 51-53. The mixed output unit 10 multiplexes the output information from each of the output switching switches 51 to 53, and sends the multiplexed information to the corresponding receiving box 6 via a communication cable LC2 such as a broadband CATV cable. It is. Each receiving box 6 and display device 7 are controlled by the corresponding clients CL1 to CL3, respectively.

In the information presentation system having such a configuration, the receiving box 6 and the display device 7 are installed at a plurality of display sites, and the client terminals CL1 to CL3 are also installed at the plurality of management sites. Then, the content is reproduced according to the presentation schedule unique to each management part, or the client terminals CL 1 to CL 3 are concentrated on the central management part, and only the display device 7 and the like are installed on a plurality of display parts. Operation modes can be realized. In other words, it is possible to expand the variety of operation modes by the number of client terminals. Next, an embodiment of the information presentation system of the present invention will be specifically described.

The information presentation system according to each of the above embodiments is applied to a hospital information presentation system which is installed in a hospital and used for patient education and presentation of environmental images, and is applied to an education information presentation system which is installed in a school and used for presentation of teaching materials. It can be installed in stations and stores to apply to an advertisement information presentation system that presents advertisement information based on requests from advertisers, or installed in various event venues to display moving images, still images, or mixed images of both. It can be applied to an event information presentation system to be presented.

It can also be applied to a system that presents personal background, career, etc. using multiple pieces of media information at a wedding or funeral.

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In either system, a plurality of contents and their presentation schedules (timetable and schedule table) may be distributed from a content provider or created on the image generation terminal side. In addition, the distribution mode includes only contents, contents and time tables, only time tables, time tables and schedule tables, contents and schedule tables, only schedule tables, or all included variations.

As described above, the distribution form includes physical distribution using the general-purpose recording medium MEM, distribution using communication means using the wide area network WN, or a combination of both. Furthermore, partial addition or replacement of content is also possible.

When the above distribution is by communication means, the wide area network WN has a wideband transmission line suitable for transmitting moving images, still images, or a mixture of moving images and still images, such as CATV networks, satellite lines, and public ATM networks. Or use a dedicated line. In particular, the CATV network can distribute multiple images by frequency multiplexing, so if large-capacity content is distributed by communication means. In this case it is convenient. When a CAT V network is used as the wide area network WN, the communication cable LC of the first embodiment also uses a CAT V cable.

Also, of the contents, the video is compressed by MPEG1 or Motion JPEG, MPEG2, etc., recorded on the general-purpose recording medium MEM, and played back while decompressing when executing the schedule. This is preferable from the viewpoint of effective use of resources.

Next, a specific operation example when the information presentation system of the present invention is applied to a hospital information presentation system will be described.

In this hospital information presentation system, any of the above-described first to third embodiments can be adopted. For example, the server terminal SB and the client terminals CL1 to CL3 of the third embodiment shown in FIG. 10 are installed in the central management part. In the hospital, there are waiting rooms for each of multiple medical departments, so multiple receiving boxes 6 and display devices 7 are installed there. The system will be started at 8:00 in the morning, and the information presentation schedule will be from 10 in the morning to 12 pm, and from 1 pm to 2 pm.

In this case, when the system is started, the switching switches 51 to 53 select the output of the external information input unit 4 and output it to the mixed output unit 10. Thus, the media information received from the commercial broadcast or the CATV network is displayed on the display device 7 of each waiting room until the scheduled start time is reached. At 10:00 in the morning, for example, the reproduction and display of the content are started according to the schedule table S shown in FIG. 5, and the switching switch 5 is also automatically switched to the output of the client terminals CL 1 to CL 3. . If information that should be notified urgently occurs on the hospital side, it will be displayed automatically when the schedule reaches the applicable item in the timetable (emergency information column). When the time reaches 12:00 pm, the switching switch 5 outputs the external information input section 4 again. Select Thereafter, this operation is repeated. Industrial applicability

As is apparent from the above description, according to the present invention, the presentation schedule of contents and emergency information and each content can exist independently, so that the degree of freedom in creating the presentation schedule increases, and the situation of the presentation destination increases. It is possible to achieve a unique effect that it is possible to display the optimal content according to the requirement. In addition, the distribution form of contents and presentation schedules can be varied, and in the case of using communication means, there is an effect that distribution according to line performance can be performed.

Furthermore, if an abnormality occurs in the content playback or display process, media information from the CATV network or commercial broadcast is automatically switched and displayed instead of the content, so that unpleasant display conditions are prevented from occurring. Can be.

Claims

The scope of the claims

1. A plurality of information processing terminals, wherein each information processing terminal edits information to be presented (hereinafter, content), a schedule creation unit that creates a presentation schedule of the edited content, A means for decoding the created presentation schedule to specify the location of the content specified in the presentation schedule, and an output means for outputting the specified content in accordance with the presentation order of the presentation schedule. An information presentation system, wherein the edited content and presentation schedule are configured to be able to move between information processing terminals independently of each other.

2. The information presentation system according to claim 1, wherein the output unit is configured to repeatedly output the content corresponding to the presentation schedule.

3. The output means is at least a display device for displaying an image, the display device includes means for acquiring media information other than the edited content, and switching between the acquired media information and the content. 3. The information presentation system according to claim 1, wherein a switch for displaying the information is provided.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the media information is reception information from a commercial broadcast, and the switch is configured to display the reception information according to the presentation schedule. Information presentation system.

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein the media information is information received from a CATV network, and the switch is configured to display the received information according to the presentation schedule. Information Showing system.

6. The information processing terminal that is in charge of the operation control of the display device further includes: a monitoring unit that monitors an output state of the content; and a switching control unit that performs automatic switching of the switch according to a monitoring result. The information presentation system according to claim 3, wherein the information presentation system is characterized in that:

7. At least a portable recording medium on which content is recorded, a plurality of content reproducing apparatuses for reading and reproducing the recorded content of the portable recording medium, and control means for controlling the operation of each content reproducing apparatus, The information presentation system, wherein the control means is configured to activate the content reproduction device according to a presentation order defined in a presentation schedule that exists independently of the content.

8. A recording medium in which a computer program executed by an information processing terminal is embodied in a form readable by the information processing terminal, the computer program comprising: means for editing content in the information processing terminal A schedule creation unit that creates the presentation schedule of the edited content; a unit that decodes the created presentation schedule to identify the location of the content defined in the presentation schedule; Output means for outputting the content according to the presentation order of the presentation schedule, so that the edited content and the presentation schedule can be independently moved to another information processing terminal. A recording medium characterized by being a medium.

9. A recording medium in which a computer program executed by the information processing terminal is embodied in a form readable by the information processing terminal, wherein the computer program includes:

And control means for controlling the operation of a plurality of content reproducing devices for reading and reproducing the recorded content of at least the portable recording medium on which the content is recorded. A recording medium configured to be constructed and to start the content reproduction device in accordance with a presentation order specified in a presentation schedule that exists independently of the content.