Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G06—COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
  • G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • G06Q30/00—Commerce
  • G06Q30/02—Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
  • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
  • H04N21/80—Generation or processing of content or additional data by content creator independently of the distribution process; Content per se
  • H04N21/85—Assembly of content; Generation of multimedia applications
  • H04N21/854—Content authoring
  • H04N21/8549—Creating video summaries, e.g. movie trailer

Definitions

• This invention relates to the provision of information, such as advertising material.
• this invention relates to a system for providing information and to a method of providing information, including an advertising system and to a method of advertising.
• on-line advertising systems which impose on the user whilst they are attempting to obtain other services, such as information from the Internet or on-line databases. For example, advertisements may be displayed on a workstation when it is not being utilised by the user for other purposes or during intervals when a patron is waiting for some service to be provided at a workstation or terminal. These systems are also independent of the viewer and suffer from the absence of any interaction with the viewer other then passively viewing the advertisement.
• this invention resides in an interactive display system for providing information including a data storage, a display and at least one selector, wherein the display sequentially displays summary information from said data storage, and wherein the at least one selector is capable of causing the display to display further information relating to selected summary information, wherein said further information is obtained from said data storage.
• the interactive system may be readily transported and, in a preferred embodiment, may be mobile, so that the system can opportunely be employed in environments that traditionally are not utilized to provide information and advertising.
• the display may be any suitable display, such as screen using a cathode ray tube (CRT), liquid crystal display (LCD), light-emitting diode or any other image projection technology.
• CTR cathode ray tube
• LCD liquid crystal display
• light-emitting diode any other image projection technology.
• the at least one selector may include a switch, key, button, sound- activated switch, touch-sensitive pad, touch-sensitive screen or the like to enable a viewer to select desired summary information about which to obtain further information.
• the further information may be viewed on the display, printed or a combination thereof.
• the system includes a printer for provision of printed further information.
• the data for the summary information and further information may be stored on any suitable storage medium, such as a hard drive, CD-ROM, floppy disks, other disks, taper and the like.
• a computerised hard disk drive including software and data that may be needed to control and manage the hardware and data flow of the summary and further information to the display and/or printer.
• the content of the summary information and the further information may be changed, updated and varied from time to time.
• the content of the data storage may be updated by any suitable means such as by diskette, CD, infrared, Ethernet connection, General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), wireless LAN, or any other wireless systems.
• GPRS General Packet Radio Service
• the system may capture statistics, such as the number of occurrences of a viewer selecting to obtain desired further information and to which summary information the selection relates. Such statistics may enable the summary information to be optimised for effectiveness. Where the summary information is advertising material, the statistical information returned from the system provides a valuable measure of the effectiveness of the system.
• the captured statistics may include hits per summary information (the number of occurrences that further information is requested in relation to any particular summary information), number of printed documents, number of language requests, etc.
• the statistics may be captured by a software program stored on the hard disk.
• Statistical information may be uploaded to other systems for analysis by any convenient means, such as manual transfer to a storage medium or remote transfer, such as via infrared or satellite.
• the summary information and further information may include any multimedia, such as text, graphics, video, animation, sound or any combination thereof.
• the further information may additionally include printed matter.
• the summary information may include an advertising message, such as a graphical image or short video advertisement for a business and the further information may include graphical images, video or sound augmenting the summary information, contact details, product and price lists, vouchers, coupons, or any other promotional material.
• the subject matter of the summary information and further information is endless and dependent on location. Further, the programmed arrangement of summary information and further information is variable, and dependent on the needs of the information provider.
• the display continuously displays the summary information from the data storage in sequence. If a viewer is interested in the summary information they can press the at least one selector, which is capable of interrupting the continuous display and causes the display to display further information relating to selected summary information. After the further information has been displayed the display reverts to continuously displaying the summary information.
• the summary information is a graphical image advertisement of a business and the further information includes a short promotional video and/or a printed docket.
• the docket may include the contact details of advertised business and/or a promotional offer.
• the system may display a screen show of still image advertisements. If a viewer requires more information about an advertised business, they press the "further information" button and a multimedia video about the selected advertised is displayed. Alternatively, if the viewer presses the "further information” button, a docket may be printed. In as still further embodiment, if the viewer presses the "further information” button, a docket may be printed at the same time as the multimedia video is displayed.
• the interactive display system of this invention may be employed in any suitable environment, such as in hotels, shopping centers and malls, train stations, bus depots, buildings, airports etc.
• the interactive display system of invention may be used in transportation applications, particularly public transport vehicles, such as buses, trains, ferries and taxicabs.
• public transport vehicles employ static advertising such as posters and signs placed internally and externally of the vehicle. Advertising systems which scroll through a series or sequence of advertisements have also been employed in transportation applications. However, such applications are passive in that they do not enable active interaction with the individual viewers.
• an advertising display system for use in transportation including an interactive display system as described above.
• the interactive display system may be mounted in a vehicle, such as a taxicab.
• this invention resides in an interactive display system for providing information including a data storage, a display and at least one selector, wherein the display continuously displays summary information from said data storage sequentially, and wherein the at least one selector is capable of interrupting the continuous display and causing the display to display further information relating to selected summary information.
• the display may revert to continuously displaying the summary information.
• this invention resides in method of providing information in an interactive display system, including the steps of: displaying a sequence of summary information to a viewer, and providing at least one selector whereby said viewer selects summary information and further information relating to the selected summary information is provided, wherein the summary information and further information are stored in the interactive system.
• this invention resides in an interactive display system mounted in a vehicle for providing information including a data storage, a display and at least one selector, wherein the display sequentially displays summary multimedia information from said data storage, and wherein the at least one selector is capable of causing the display to display further multimedia information relating to selected summary information, wherein said further information is obtained from said data storage.
• this invention resides in an interactive display system for providing information including a data storage, a display, a printer and at least one selector, wherein the display sequentially displays summary information from said data storage, and wherein the at least one selector is capable of causing the printer to print further information relating to selected summary information, wherein said further information is obtained from said data storage.
• FIG. 1 depicts an interactive advertising system mounted in a vehicle
• FIG. 2 is a front view of the display screen of an interactive advertising system displaying an advertisement
• FIG. 3 is a side view of the display screen illustrated in Fig. 2;
• FIG. 4 is the A-A cross-sectional view of the display screen illustrated in Fig. 2;
• FIG. 5 is a bottom view of the display screen illustrated in Fig. 2;
• FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the components of the display screen illustrated in Fig. 2;
• FIG. 7 is perspective view of the printer of the interactive advertising system of this invention;
• FIG. 8 is a front view of the printer illustrated in Fig. 6;
• FIG. 9 is the A-A cross-sectional view of the printer illustrated in Fig. 6, and
• FIG. 10 is an example of printed matter from the interactive advertising system of this invention. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
• FIGs. 1 to 9 there is illustrated an interactive advertising system 10 mounted in a vehicle 11 , such as a taxicab.
• the interactive advertising system 10 includes a display screen 12, a printer 13 and a storage- medium 14 (not shown), such as central processing unit (CPU). It is to be understood that in all components of the interactive advertising system 10 can be self-contained.
• the display screen 12, printer 13 and a storage- medium 14 could be enclosed within the same housing.
• the display screen 12 is fitted into a custom designed headrest 15 of the front seat 15 of the vehicle 11.
• display screens 12 are installed in both the driver and passenger seat.
• One or more selectors or buttons 18 are located on the display screen 12 to enable a viewer to select the various functions of the interactive advertising system 10.
• the passenger and driver screens 12 display the same image, however only one of the screens 12 may include navigation buttons 18.
• the screen 12 without navigation buttons 18 may simply be a slave screen 12.
• the printer 13 is a preferably a thermal printer and can be mounted in various positions in the vehicle. In Fig. 1 , the printer 13 is mounted on the centre console for ease of accessibility to the passengers in the back seat 20 of the vehicle 11.
• the display screens 12 and the printer 13 are linked to the CPU 14 via an armoured cable 17 threaded through the seat cavity.
• a sequence of summary information such as advertising messages, is displayed continuously on the screen 12.
• the summary information may be a screen show of advertisements or scroll images displayed in sequence.
• the scroll image is a still image that is displayed for a brief period of time, say 3 seconds.
• buttons 18 enable a viewer to interact with the interactive advertising system 10 to obtain further information relating to a desired summary information, i.e. an advertising message of interest to the viewer.
• a desired summary information i.e. an advertising message of interest to the viewer.
• they may press the "more information" button 18, which displays further information, such as a multimedia file.
• the multimedia file may be a short video such as TV like commercial for the advertised business relating to selected scroll image.
• the multimedia file can also include sound, such as an imbedded MPEG.
• the viewer may also press a "print” button 18, which prints a docket relating to the relevant scroll image, such as illustrated in Fig. 10.
• the docket 19 may included the advertiser's contact details and/or a promotional offer, such as a free bottle of wine with dinner or 10% off a ticket price.
• the "more information" button 18 will print the docket at the same time as displaying the multimedia video file.
• Multiple language formats are available and the user can press a desired language button 18. When pressed, a viewer can toggle though a number of different languages that may be available.
• there may be a button for selectively displaying a desired summary information For example, there may be a skip button to enable a viewer to scroll backwards and forwards between the advertising messages. If the viewer does not press any of the available buttons 18, the next still image in the summary information screen show is displayed.
• the summary information and further information can include any multimedia format including text, graphics, video, animation, sound or any combination thereof.
• the amount and type of information provided by the interactive advertising system 10 is potentially unlimited, and can be updated and changed periodically.
• the interactive advertising system 10 has an infrared device that enables information to be downloaded in a matter of seconds from up to three metres away.
• the advertising data content of the CPU may be updated by an Ethernet connection, GPRS, wireless LAN or other suitable wireless technologies.
• the interactive adverting system 10 is able capture statistics to which summary information can be provided to the advertiser to measure the effectiveness of their advertising.
• the statistics may include the number hours per day the system is in operation, the number of times a language is selected, statistics on total number of site impressions, site, hits and the number of dockets printed from each site.
• Statistical information can be uploaded via an infrared device or other like wireless device to a central location for analysis.
• An advertiser utilising the preferred embodiment of the invention, may in fact have three advertising opportunities, being: • an advertising space for their scroll image,
• the first space is the scroll image.
• This image will be displayed in a sequence of advertising message.
• This image may be any suitable file format, such as bit map, JPEG, Tiff, GIF, or the like. Compressed file formats may be preferred if memory is a concern.
• the second space is the "interactive level” space. A viewer will access this level via the "more information” button 18 when viewing the scroll images.
• This space is used to store the multimedia content the advertiser wishes to show, such as a short video.
• the third space is the docket image.
• the printer 13 will print the docket image when a passenger presses the "print” button from the "interactive level”.
• the "more information" button may print the docket image at the same time as the multimedia video content.
• the image includes contact details of the advertiser, as well as the offer they wish to promote.
• the image may be any suitable file format, such as bit map, JPEG, Tiff, GIF, or the like.
• the interactive advertising system 10 is located in taxicabs 11 as seen in Fig. 1.
• a passenger or viewer is able to access the system 10 by interacting with the buttons 18 from the back seat 20 of the taxicab 11.
• the interactive advertising system 10 is designed to boot-up when the vehicle is started, shutdown when the vehicle is stopped and operate continuously when a vehicle is running, so that interference is not required by the driver of the vehicle.
• the use of the interactive advertising system 10 inside taxicabs allows advertisers to promote their business to passengers in a new environment. In such an environment, the interactive advertising system 10 entices passenger interaction and the advertising is provided with valuable marketing feedback and learnings.

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