Portable Media Kiosk With Projection Verification and Remote Updates
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing portable media projection systems face challenges in efficiently displaying media messages without strict requirements for motion, location tracking, or location verification, and they often require frequent repositioning, which can be impractical for outdoor advertising.
Innovation Solution
A portable kiosk system that projects media messages, verifies media projection, and communicates verification information to a central server, optionally determining its location and acting as a public Wi-Fi hotspot or cellular booster, allowing for real-time media updates and operation from leased properties.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If portable media projection systems require strict location tracking and motion verification, then media message display accuracy is improved, but device complexity and operational burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes the media projection system from the moving vehicle and places it in a stationary portable kiosk. This extracts the location tracking and motion verification requirements from the system, eliminating the need for complex GPS tracking and motion detection while maintaining media display capability in outdoor locations.
Solution Approach 2:
The portable kiosk acts as an intermediary between the media server and the outdoor display location. It receives media messages via wireless communication and displays them locally, eliminating the need for real-time location tracking and motion verification while ensuring accurate media delivery to the intended outdoor location.
2Area of stationary object
If portable media systems are moved frequently to different parking spots, then advertising coverage area is improved, but operational time and setup complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables dynamic media content delivery to a stationary kiosk location. Instead of moving the physical display system, the media content can be dynamically updated and changed remotely via wireless communication, allowing the same stationary kiosk to serve different advertising campaigns without physical relocation.
Solution Approach 2:
The portable kiosk is designed as a universal platform that can display various types of media messages (video, images, text) from different clients. A single stationary kiosk can serve multiple advertising clients by receiving different media content wirelessly, eliminating the need to physically move the system between locations.
3Measurement precision
If media projection systems require location verification, then media delivery accuracy is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the location verification requirement from the operation process by making the kiosk stationary. The kiosk's fixed location eliminates the need for operators to perform location verification procedures, while the system still ensures accurate media delivery to the correct outdoor location through its predetermined position.
Solution Approach 2:
The portable kiosk operates autonomously at its stationary location, automatically receiving media messages via wireless communication and displaying them without requiring operator intervention for location verification or system setup. The system serves itself by maintaining a fixed position that inherently verifies its location.
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AI summary
A system and method are provided for a pedestrian thoroughfare portable media projection kiosk. The method provides a portable kiosk chassis located in a pedestrian thoroughfare. A media projection subsystem attached to the kiosk projects a media message and creates a media enablement signal. The media message may be a visual display, an audio broadcast, or both. The method verifies that media has been projected in response to receiving a media enablement signal. Verification information is supplied that includes the media enablement signal, and the verification information is communicated to a server. The verification information may be communicated using a cellular telephone, an IEEE 802.11 Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) device, an IEEE 802.15 Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) device, or combinations thereof. Alternatively, or in addition, the kiosk may provide a publically accessible cellular telephone booster, a WLAN access point (AP), WPAN AP, or combinations thereof.