Remote control electronic display system

Abstract

A remotely controlled electronic display sign which operates with a plasma display and which provides for humidity and heat control and the like allowing the sign to be used in various environments. The sign is essentially self-contained and includes those components necessary for enabling a display of desired material from a remote control source or one located at the sign. A controller in or associated with the sign is accessible either electrically, or through satellite transmission or other wireless transmission from the remote source which allows the display of the sign to be changed at will. Thus, an operator at a remote source may, with the aid of a pre-prepared graphic design, transmit that design to the controller at or associated with the sign for display of that graphic information and potentially with sound.

Description

[0001] 1. Field Of The Invention[0002] This invention relates in general to certain new and useful improvements in display signs, and more particularly, to remotely controlled electronically operable display signs in which a display on a sign may be changed at will from a remote source, and methods of displaying information in such manner that the sign is used as an instrument to enhance the image of a product or service.[0003] 2. Brief Description Of Related Art[0004] Display signs are used in a wide variety of industries, frequently as promotional and advertising aids. Thus, many retail stores will employ display signs in the front of their stores or elsewhere featuring products which are being sold or otherwise offered by that establishment. Display signs are also frequently used for traffic control by various municipalities and governmental agencies.[0005] Essentially all display signs presently available are static in that they carry a substrate with a message or design thereon...

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Problems solved by technology

The cost of preparing display signs made with paper and paper-board substrates can be quite substantial.

Nevertheless, preparation of the drawing is labor intensive.

These various steps, as indicated, are labor intensive and therefore materially add to the overall costs of preparing a sign or display, particularly when made of a paper or paper-board material.

In addition to the foregoing, there are also costs involved in the shipping or transport of these signs.

Generally, they cannot be folded or bent or they would otherwise be unsuitable for use.

Here again, the cost of preparing an etched glass sheet can be quite substantial.

Again, because of the frailty of these sheets, substantial precautions must be taken for the transport or shipment of these sheets.

There is presently no display sign capable of having information changed thereon as quickly as information can be changed on the screen of a computer monitor.

Moreover, and independently thereof, there is presently no effective display sign which can be changed from a remote location.

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