Multimedia Display Booth Table Control Wall Interface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current restaurant systems lack an interactive experience for customers, failing to provide a fully immersive and engaging environment for dining, ordering, and communication.
Innovation Solution
A multimedia restaurant system featuring booths with table displays and wall displays that allow for interactive menu selection, audio control, and multimedia experiences, integrated with a central computer for data collection and recommendation algorithms, enabling customers to order and interact with the environment through touch screens and user devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a conventional restaurant setup is used, then the structure is simple and easy to implement, but the customer experience lacks interactivity and immersion
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple functions into an integrated booth system: the table surface serves as both a dining surface and a control interface for multimedia content; the wall display integrates with the booth structure to provide immersive visuals; the system merges customer ordering, multimedia playback, and environmental control into a unified interface, thereby achieving high interactivity without proportionally increasing overall system complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The table display serves multiple functions: it acts as a menu interface, an ordering system, a multimedia controller, and an environmental control panel. The wall display similarly serves both as visual content presentation and as part of the booth's structural design. This multi-functionality allows the system to provide rich interactive experiences while avoiding the need for separate dedicated devices for each function
2Object-affected harmful factors
If sound isolation features are added to booths, then customer privacy and comfort are improved, but the booth structure becomes more complex and space-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
Sound isolation features are applied locally to the booth structure rather than throughout the entire restaurant. The partitions and seating arrangements are designed to contain acoustic treatment only where needed (at the booth level), providing effective noise isolation for individual customers while minimizing the overall volume and complexity added to the restaurant space
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple displays and connectivity options are provided, then user interaction and customization are enhanced, but the device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of providing multiple separate control devices and displays, the system inverts the approach by making the primary interaction surface (the table) the control interface. The table display becomes the central control point that manages all other functions, including wall display content, audio playback, and ordering. This reduces the number of separate devices needed while maintaining high customization capability
Data Source
AI summary
A restaurant system may include multiple booths in at least part of a restaurant and a central computer in communication with each booth. Each booth may include a table having a table display, seating stations arranged around the table, the table being large enough to accommodate dining at each seating station, a wall having a wall display therein, the wall display positioned to be viewable from all seating stations, the wall display configured to display a common image, the table display configured to control the wall display, a booth computer in communication with the table display, the wall display, and the central computer, and an access point configured to allow access to restaurant workers and entry/exit to the booth.