99 results about "Public displays" patented technology

A system according to the present disclosure presents content to a user and provides feedback to a content provider without requiring the viewer to explicitly take action. A content presentation unit, such as a digital picture frame or public display, may be any device that continuously and / or sequentially displays graphical, audio and other presentations that may be sensed by a user, generally without intervention by the user. The unit may include sensors that detect when a human expresses interest in specific content, and in various embodiments, determines a type of emotional response experienced by the user regarding the content. Particular sensors may include eye-contact, touch, motion and voice, though other sensors may also be used. The response information can be combined to provide feedback to the content provider that the content was experienced, and may determine various data, such as the duration of attention to the content and any detected emotional response to it.

Methods and apparatus for displaying visual content on a display such that the content is comprehensible only to an authorized user for a visual display system such as a computer, a television, a video player, a public display system (including but not limited to a movie theater), a mobile phone, an automated teller machine (ATM), voting booths, kiosks, security screening workstations, tactical displays and other systems where information is displayed for viewing.

Methods and apparatus for displaying visual content on a display such that the content is comprehensible only to an authorized user for a visual display system such as a computer, a television, a video player, a public display system (including but not limited to a movie theater), a mobile phone, an automated teller machine (ATM), voting booths, kiosks, security screening workstations, tactical displays and other systems where information is displayed for viewing.

Disclosed are a device and a method for displaying a private image on a public display device. Image sequence pattern is generated for the private image and the corresponding masking image. The masking image is made from the dynamic inverse image of the private image, based on the refresh rate of the display device and the image sequence pattern. The masking image can screen the private image more effectively. The private image and the masking image is displayed on the display device according to the image sequence pattern.

Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to establish a temporary short range wireless link between at least one portable device and a public display having public content displayed on a first portion of the public display, provide a display area for the portable device in a second portion of the public display, receive portable device content from the portable device over the link at the public display, and display, to a user of the portable device, at least some of the portable device content on the second portion of the public display in substantially real time. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.

A method, apparatus, and computer readable storage to implement an interactive social gaming environment relating to real estate purchasing. Users (or players) of the system can access valuable Realtor Multiple Listing System (MLS) information as well as additional player-generated information on cities, neighborhoods, and homes for sale. In this manner, information about homes and neighborhoods that is not otherwise available and that is sometimes unfavorable can be made transparent by and for potential home buyers, informed neighbors, real estate agents, and other home owners considering the sale of their home. This creates a new level of transparency of real estate information that benefits all interested parties. Players can also see otherwise unavailable information on the interest level of other players into neighborhoods and homes based on the real-time aggregation and public display of player check-ins. This game utilizes this activity information to assign players as rivals whose activities suggest they have similar neighborhood or home interests.

A method of fund raising for a predetermined cause utilizing a photo-mosaic composition with an appearance approximating a target image that is representative of the cause, the target image being compiled from source images contributed by participant individuals wishful of advancing the cause, wherein a web site is set to host a clickable icon file of the photo-mosaic composition associated with a database of participant profiles that is searchable through an incorporated search engine. The web site allows networking of participant individuals. The photo-mosaic composition is rendered through available rendering software in predetermined time intervals and periodical printouts thereof are produced to provide outdoor exhibits to be displayed in public, the scope of advancement of the predetermined cause and effective fundraising being achieved through the multiplier effect produced by the combination of outdoor and electronic promotional activities.

The invention relates to the technical field of movement positioning data analysis in a sense network environment, and discloses a movement position analysis system and method in the sense network environment for performing clustering analysis and knowledge discovery on positioning data by orienting positioning data acquired by a mobile device and combining with other additional information. The movement position analysis method in the sense network environment comprises the steps of: receiving positioning data points sent by one or more locatable devices; performing data correlation on the positioning data points and population structure characteristic data as well as user historical trajectory data; performing clustering analysis on the correlated positioning data points, aggregating users with similar characteristics into a group so as to obtain group structure characteristic data; exporting an aggregated result. According to the method, mobile users with similar characteristics can be aggregated to form a group based on the positioning data and other information, and the group information can be shown on a user terminal or a public display device in a friendly way.

A system and method for enabling and improving user engagement through responsive iterative and cyclic interaction using mobile devices, for the creation of, response to, or alteration of, notifications on public display screens. The invention includes computer hardware and software for implementing, by delivering notification content, notification type, and means of notification, an iterative or cyclic response by users responsive to sensed or observed real world events and computer system events. The inventions also includes systems for synthesizing user interaction originating on groups of mobile devices in order to, through responsive cyclic iterative interaction, create, respond to, or alter, at least two separate and separately sourced simultaneously occurring notifications on a public display screen or screens. The invention further relates to a system and method on computer hardware and software system display or notification means for enabling and improving user situational awareness, cognition, and response, by recognizing and delivering, for a response option, cyclic, iterative responses through to notifications on a display.

A computer-assisted method for presenting a multi-media plurality of elements. Each element, including, for example, video images, still images and documents, is stored by assigned index number in an appropriate input device such as a VHS recorder or laser disk reader (video and stills) or an optical or magnetic disk reader (documents). The input devices are addressed by such index numbers to thereby call up and display selected elements in a WINDOWS format. The format is adjustable from a basic default setting to enable the user to customize frames prior to entry into a script buffer. Thereafter the script buffer is addressable, permitting the frames constituting the presentation to be entered into a script file in a preferred presentation sequence. The presentation is made by addressing the script file to recall selected frames. The method allows the user to preview flames one at a time and allows the user to reformat each frame prior to public display.

The invention discloses a social contact interactive method, device, terminal and system. The method comprises the steps that second social contact application users and display equipment at the periphery of a first social contact application user are identified according to a service set identifier (SSID) of a wireless fidelity (WIFI) network; if the second social contact application users at the periphery of the first social contact application user are identified, social contact data interaction connections between the first social contact application user and the second social contact application users, the display equipment and the like are established, and image-text data of the social contact interaction can be displayed on the display equipment. According to the social contact interactive method, device, terminal and system, the surrounding social contact application users are identified through the SSID of the WIFI, based on the fact that the WIFI has the characteristic that signals cover in a short distance, the surrounding users can be identified quickly and accurately, and the social contact application users within a small range at the periphery are found, identified and connected accurately and quickly so that the image, text, voice and video information interaction can be conducted, and based on small screens of intelligent terminals and large screens of public display screens, the image, text, video and voice information interaction which is commonly used by the multiple screens can be achieved.

A method and means to use randomly arranged fibers assembled together in a bundle that is capable of conveying images from an inaccessible location to a more accessible, convenient or safe location for viewing. Allows for mixing fibers of different diameters. Random distribution of fibers decreases the packing fraction, offering in exchange easiness of manufacturing and decrease in production cost. System can be also used for display units, including computer monitors, home TV, movie theatres, public display announcement boards, as airport, trains stations, highway instructions and billboard advertising. As display units, random assembled fibers are organized at the display end at the display shape, usually rectangular, from where light is emitted towards the viewer. At the illuminating end, light enters the individual fibers from multicolored lasers or other light sources which are controlled by single or multiple video boards and computers.

A method of displaying application windows (18) on display devices (12) includes maintaining a designation of an application window as either public or private, maintaining a designation of a display device as either public or private, receiving an input directing the display of a private application window on a public display device, and preventing or adjusting the display of the private application window on the public display device, e.g. by obscuring the contents, blacking out a window, making a window invisible, or restricting a window from being dragged onto another display device.

The invention relates to a system for providing and managing interactive services. The system comprises a mediation server, a central management server, a content server and a display application, wherein the mediation server is used for obtaining a content linking address of a corresponding application server from the central management server after receiving an access request from a plurality of different mobile terminals, and establishing a connection with the corresponding application server according to the obtained content linking address so that the application server receives input information from the mobile terminals; the content server comprises the application server; the application server is used for executing an event according to the input information from the mobile terminals and sending an event execution result to the display application; the display application is used for obtaining display content from the content server and displaying the display content on a multimedia display terminal. The invention further provides the corresponding method. According to the invention, the display content of the multimedia display terminal is updated according to the input information of the mobile terminals, thereby realizing the interaction between a user and public display equipment.

A facility wayfinding system is provided which includes an interactive public display device and a mobile device, running a mobile wayfinding application. The interactive public display device, which is situated at a first location within a facility, displays a facility map showing facility units, receives a user selection of a facility unit as a second location, and displays a route from the first location to the second location on the facility map. The mobile device also displays the facility map, displays a route from a start location to a destination location on the facility map, and updates the start location to the first location and the destination location to the second location by synchronizing with the interactive public display device.

In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention a secure electronic identification device (SEID) is presented. The SEOD includes a display mode for displaying government furnished information, a display mode for displaying user furnished information, and a public display mode for displaying public information. The SEID also includes a banking module with logic and resources for initiating financial transactions between the SEID and a payment gateway. The SEID includes a removable card having a magnetic strip and an EMV chip encodable by the SEID.

The invention relates to a judgment induction system for a sports competition, which is designed aiming at the technical problems that the traditional competition timing mode is suboptimal; and because the competition field is larger, a lot of spectators can not know the information of competitors in real time. The judgment induction system comprises a whistle, a watch, a communicator, a control end and a public display screen, wherein the watch is provided with a signal transmitter and a sound control device; the control end is provided with a signal receiver, a voice recognition device and a programmable controller; the control end is connected with the public display screen; the signal transmitter of the watch is matched with the signal receiver of the control end, the sound control device is associated with the whistling tone of the whistle, the communicator is connected with the control end by distant signals, and a display chip of the watch is provided with a score display module. The judgment induction system adopts the whistling tone to control the competition time, so that the competition time is more accurate; the public display screen is adopted to display the real-time messages of related sportsmen so as to increase the watching interests of the spectators; and the judgment induction system is suitable for being popularized and used in basketball competitions, football competitions or similar sports competitions.

The invention relates to a method for monitoring quality of organic vegetables by using a network remotely in real time on the basis of sensing communication. By the aid of a unique node design of video information data collection of an organic vegetable production process and unique designs of classification, recognition and marking of target information data and terminal distributive monitoring processing in the method for monitoring the quality of the organic vegetables, the disadvantage that in the prior art, parameter information data of the growing environment and the growing state change of the organic vegetables cannot be collected, marked and monitored is overcome; an organic vegetable growing environment wireless sensor network is established, and data such as the temperature, the humidity, the CO2 concentration and the like of the production environment of the organic vegetables are collected, transmitted and monitored in real time; and the development of a public display platform of the Internet of Things is greatly simplified.

In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention a secure electronic identification device is presented. The secure electronic identification device includes a display mode for displaying government furnished information, a display mode for displaying user furnished information, and a public display mode for displaying public information.

The invention relates to a method for acquiring information from mobile communication and a mobile communication system. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring the information of an intelligent card embedded in a mobile terminal, and activating the mobile hot spot access authority of the mobile terminal after verifying the mobile terminal being authorized registered according to the information of the intelligent card, thereby guiding the mobile terminal to perform the method and the mobile communication system for acquiring information from mobile communication at the current position, so that a user can look up the related information content through the own mobile terminal without using a public display device at the current position, different users can acquire different contents according to the requirement and the individuation feature for supplying information in the public places is enhanced. Even in crowded and noisy environment, the user also can efficiently read information, thereby efficiently utilizing the idle time of use in the public places and increasing the working efficiency.

A microscopy laboratory system for efficient instruction is disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of student microscopes each equipped with a camera for generating an image signal representing a student view image of at least a portion of the field of view of the student microscope, multiplexed control means connected by video cables or wireless technology to the cameras to provide a composite instruction image signal based on student view images from one or more selected microscopes, and a projection unit or other public display for presenting the instruction image to the students in the laboratory. An instructor microscope can also be coupled into the system, and a display image marker is preferably linked to the multiplexed control means for inserting instructor annotations into the displayed instruction image.

The invention provides an intelligent remote teaching video interaction mode adjusting method. The intelligent remote teaching video interactive mode adjusting method comprises the steps of downloading teaching videos to a local terminal and playing the teaching videos in a public displaying module; opening a video interaction module, a voice interaction module and a character interaction module and meanwhile conducting packet capturing detection on the network speed of a current terminal periodically; intercepting and saving a frame image from each interaction module if the delay time of two-time continuous packet capturing is greater than or equal to a first preset value; closing the video interaction module and opening and displaying the frame image in the corresponding interaction module and keeping the voice interaction module and the character interaction module if the delay time of two-time continuous packet capturing is greater than the first preset value and smaller than a second preset value. By means of the intelligent remote teaching video interaction mode adjusting method, the fluency of each terminal during interaction is ensured, network waiting, clamping stagnation or buffering and other situations do not occur, frequent operations performed by a user needing to wait and perform continuous manual switching among interaction modes are eliminated, and accordingly interaction efficiency and convenience are improved.

Methods, systems, and media for launching a mobile application using a public display device are provided. In some implementations, the a method for presenting content on a public display device comprises: initiating, by a user device, communication with display devices; selecting a display device of the display devices; establishing communication with the selected display device; causing applications of a first group to be presented more prominently using a touchscreen of the display device and applications of a second group to be presented less prominently using the touchscreen; receiving a selection of an application of the first group; causing a user interface for the application to be presented using the touchscreen; receiving input corresponding to a portion of the user interface via the touchscreen; generating an updated user interface based on the input; and causing the updated user interface to be presented using touchscreen.

The invention provides a remote teaching video interaction system which comprises a server module and a plurality of display terminal modules. The display terminal modules are used for downloading teaching video files or acquiring remote live teaching videos from the server module, a plurality terminals are connected with the server module through an internet, and each display terminal module comprises a public display module, a priority setting module, a video interactive module, a voice interaction module, a character interaction module, an internet speed detection module and an interaction switching module. By the aid of internet communication technology, discussion and interaction between interaction persons are realized, discussion occasions cannot be limited, expensive conference facilities are omitted, internet speed detection ensures interactive fluency of each terminal, waiting, blocking or buffering and the like caused by the internet is avoided, and waiting of a user is eliminated, so that teaching evaluation activities are more convenient and faster.

The invention provides a multi-interface management method under a single task, which relates to the field of the interface design. The technical problems that the interface switching speed is low, the interface and the external data are complex to interact, and system resource has big possibility of being consumed in the prior art because a window management tool provided by the system is adopted when the interface amount is huge in an embedded system can be solved. The multi-interface management method under the single task comprises the following steps: an interface management module loads or unloads a sub-interface according to an interface identifier; a method for setting a public display zone is provided for the sub-interface; a data monitoring module is responsible for data interaction with an external progress; and the sub-interface registers a required data type to the data monitoring module according to the self requirement. The multi-interface management method under the single task is suitable for the interface management under the embedded system.

A mobile electronic device may include a video display, a user interface, a wireless transmitter, and a controller. The video display may be configured to provide video information to a user of the mobile electronic device, the user interface may be configured to accept user input at the mobile electronic device, and the controller may be coupled to the video display, to the user interface, and to the wireless transmitter. The controller may be configured to run a video game responsive to user input accepted at the user interface, to generate personal gaming video information for the video game for display on the video display of the mobile gaming device, and to generate public gaming video information for the video game for transmission from the wireless transmitter and display on a public display. Moreover, the personal gaming video information and the public gaming video information may be different. Related gaming devices and methods are also discussed.

A microscopy laboratory system for efficient instruction is disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of student microscopes each equipped with a camera for generating an image signal representing a student view image of at least a portion of the field of view of the student microscope, multiplexed control means connected by video cables or wireless technology to the cameras to provide a composite instruction image signal based on student view images from one or more selected microscopes, and a projection unit or other public display for presenting the instruction image to the students in the laboratory. An instructor microscope can also be coupled into the system, and a display image marker is preferably linked to the multiplexed control means for inserting instructor annotations into the displayed instruction image.