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Title:
APPARATUS FOR UNATTENDEDLY FURNISHING MULTI-PICTURE SYNTHETIC INFORMATION
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2000/002179
Kind Code:
A2
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an apparatus for unattendedly furnishing multi-picture synthetic information which furnishes a synthetic information regarding various kinds of goods and affiliated shops which sell them by means of a monitor for displaying a picture. According to the present invention, if an advertising information and a living information stored in the database of the server are provided to the moving picture monitor and the touch screen monitor by the PC body, the advertising information, living information and each retrieving picture are displayed on the moving picture monitor and the touch screen monitor. Also, if an advertising information regarding a telemarketing good and the affiliated shop, which sells it, is provided to the telemarketing good advertising monitor by the CDP body, an information regarding telemarketing good and the affiliated shop is displayed on the telemarketing good advertising monitor. The CDP body and the PC body output a discount coupon printing signal and a living information printing signal. Accordingly, the coupon printer prints out a discount coupon and the information magazine printer prints out a living information magazine.

Inventors:
LEE SOUNG HO (KR)
Application Number:
PCT/KR1999/000358
Publication Date:
January 13, 2000
Filing Date:
July 06, 1999
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
JIHAN DATA TECH CO LTD (KR)
LEE SOUNG HO (KR)
International Classes:
G09F27/00; (IPC1-7): G09F/
Other References:
PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN vol. 95, no. 8 & JP 07 129 093 A (HIUKA SANGYO) 29 September 1995
PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN vol. 98, no. 2 30 January 1998 & JP 09 270 061 A (FUJI ELECTRIC) 14 October 1997
PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN vol. 98, no. 6 & JP 10 055 339 A (HITACHI LTD.) 30 April 1998
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Kim, Won-ho (Yoksam-dong Kangnam-ku Seoul 135-080, Yoksam-dong Kangnam-ku Seoul 135-080, KR)
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Claims:
What is claimed is :
1. An apparatus for unattendedly furnishing multipicture synthetic information comprising, a moving picture monitor (10) for displaying an advertising information regarding an advertising good and an affiliated shop, which sells it, in a moving picture; a moving picture keyboard (11) having a selecting button for retrieving an advertising information displayed on said moving picture monitor (10) and for outputting a specific good and a discount coupon of an affiliated shop which sells it; a telemarketing good advertising monitor (20) for displaying information regarding a telemarketing good and an affiliated shop which sells it; a telemarketing good keyboard (21) having a selecting button for retrieving an advertising information displayed on said telemarketing good advertising monitor (20) and for outputting a specific good and a discount coupon of an affiliated shop which sells it; a CDP body (30) for providing said telemarketing good advertising monitor (20) with an advertising picture, retrieving the advertising information in accordance with operating of said telemarketing good keyboard (21) and outputting a discount coupon printing signal for outputting a specific telemarketing good and a discount coupon of an affiliated shop which sells it; a touch screen monitor (40) for displaying a living information guided unattendedly and its information retrieving picture; a PC body (30) for providing said moving picture monitor (10) with an advertising picture, for retrieving the advertising information in accordance with operating of said moving picture keyboard (11), for outputting a discount coupon printing signal for outputting a specific advertising good and a discount coupon of an affiliated shop which sells it and for outputting a living information printing signal for providing said touch screen monitor (40) with a living information guided unattendedly and its retrieving picture and a living information in accordance with ON of a touch screen switch in said touch screen monitor (40); and a printer (60) for outputting an discount coupon and a living information magazine when it receives a discount coupon printing signal and a living information printing signal outputted from said CDP body (30) and said PC body (50).
2. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, in which said PC body (50) provides said touch screen monitor (40) with a discount affiliated shop guided unattendedly and a retrieving picture regarding good thereof and outputs a discount coupon printing signal for outputting a discount coupon when the touch screen switch in said touch screen monitor (40) becomes ON.
3. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, in which said PC body (50) constructs a multipicture advertising network by being connected to a server (52) comprising a database (DB) of an advertising information and a living information displayed on said moving picture monitor (10) and said touch screen monitor (40) through a telecommunication modem (53) and a telecommunication line (54).
4. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, in which said PC body (50) permits an advertising information displayed on said moving picture monitor (10) to be displayed simultaneously on said touch screen monitor (40) before until said touch screen monitor (40) becomes ON and thus an living information guided unattendedly and its retrieving picture are displayed.
5. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1 or claim 2, in which said CDP body (30) permits an advertising information displayed on said telemarketing good monitor (20) to be displayed simultaneously on said moving picture monitor (10), if a communication between said PC body (50) and said server (51) is cut off.
6. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1 or claim 5, in which said printer (60) comprising a coupon printer (61) for outputting an advertising information and a discount coupon of an affiliated shop and information magazine printer (62) for outputting a living information displayed finally on the touch screen monitor (40) in a specific format.
Description:
TITLE APPARATUS FOR UNATTENDEDLY FURNISHING MULTI-PICTURE SYNTHETIC INFORMATION TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to an apparatus for unattendedly furnishing multi-picture synthetic information which furnishes a synthetic information regarding various kinds of goods and affiliated shops which sell them by means of a monitor for displaying an picture, and more specifically to an apparatus for unattendedly furnishing multi-picture synthetic information that can display various kinds of advertising information and living information by means of a plurality of monitors and that is designed for user to retrieve various kinds of advertising information and living information which are displayed on the monitors and then to output a specific advertising good, discount coupons of the affiliated shops which sell them and a specific living information.

BACKGROUNG ART In general, a picture information furnishing apparatus, which is installed at the inside and outside on a specific public place, displays various kinds of

advertising information and guiding information such as a still, text, graphic, moving picture, animation and the like on the monitor, and is designed for user to retrieve such picture information through his operating of a selecting button.

Especially, such picture information furnishing apparatus has a specific operating program built therein, stores a picture information on picture storage medium such as a compact disk (CD) and then displays such picture information on the monitor. Also, the apparatus which has been developed for the government administrative network and various kinds of guiding system is used by a small number of person.

However, since such conventional picture information furnishing apparatus displays various kinds of picture information, which are stored on a storage medium such as CD, on the monitor and then is designed for user to only retrieve such information, there are disadvantages that an amount of information in accordance with a storage capacity of a storage medium is limited and that it is not possible to transmit promptly in a real time various kinds of living information which are provided from a living information magazine to user. Also, there is a disadvantage that user may not receive a specific advertising good included on the picture information and a

discount coupon of the affiliated shops which sell them.

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, the present invention is to overcome such disadvantages of the conventional arts.

It is an object of the present invention to display various kinds of advertising information and living information such as a still, text, graphic, moving picture, animation and the like on a plurality of monitors, and also permits for user to retrieve various kinds of advertising information and living information displayed on the monitor and to output a specific advertising good and living information which are displayed on the monitors and then to output a specific advertising good, discount coupons of an affiliated shop which sells them and a specific living information which the he wants.

To achieve the object of the present invention, an apparatus for unattendedly furnishing multi-picture synthetic information comprises a moving picture monitor for displaying an advertising information regarding an advertising good and an affiliated shop, which sells it, in a moving picture; a moving picture keyboard having a selecting button for retrieving an advertising information displayed on said moving picture

monitor and for outputting a specific good and a discount coupon of an affiliated shop which sells it; a telemarketing good advertising monitor for displaying information regarding a telemarketing good and an affiliated shop which sells it; a telemarketing good keyboard having a selecting button for retrieving an advertising information displayed on said telemarketing good advertising monitor and for outputting a specific good and a discount coupon of an affiliated shop which sells it; a CDP body for providing said telemarketing good advertising monitor with an advertising picture, retrieving the advertising information in accordance with operating of said telemarketing good keyboard and outputting a discount coupon printing signal for outputting a specific telemarketing good and a discount coupon of an affiliated shop which sells it; a touch screen monitor for displaying a living information guided unattendedly and its information retrieving picture; a PC body for providing said moving picture monitor with an advertising picture, for retrieving the advertising information in accordance with operating of said moving picture keyboard, for outputting a discount coupon printing signal for outputting a specific advertising good and a discount coupon of an affiliated shop which sells it and for outputting a living information printing signal

for providing said touch screen monitor with a living information guided unattendedly and its retrieving picture and a living information in accordance with ON of a touch screen switch in said touch screen monitor; and a printer for outputting an discount coupon and a living information magazine when it receives a discount coupon printing signal and a living information printing signal outputted from said CDP body and said PC body.

According to the apparatus for unattendedly furnishing multi-picture synthetic information having such construction, if an advertising information and a living information stored in the database of the server are provided to the moving picture monitor and the touch screen monitor by the PC body, the advertising information, living information and each retrieving picture are displayed on the moving picture monitor and the touch screen monitor. Also, if an advertising information regarding a telemarketing good and the affiliated shop, which sells it, is provided to the telemarketing good advertising monitor by the CDP body, an information regarding telemarketing good and the affiliated shop is displayed on the telemarketing good advertising monitor. Further, in case that in order to output a specific advertising good, telemarketing good, a discount coupon of the affiliated shop and a information

magazine regarding a specific living information after receiving an advertising information and a living information, a user operates the moving picture keyboard, telemarketing good keyboard and a touch screen switch in the touch screen monitor, the CDP body and the PC body output a discount coupon printing signal and an living information printing signal. Accordingly, the coupon printer prints out a discount coupon and the information magazine printer prints out a living information magazine.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAEINGS Now, an embodiment according to the present invention will be described in detailed with reference to the accompanied drawings; wherein, Fig. 1 shows a construction of the apparatus for unattendedly furnishing multi-picture synthetic information according to the present invention.

Fig. 2 shows a multi-picture advertising network constructed by the apparatus for unattendedly furnishing multi-picture synthetic information according to the present invention.

Fig. 3 shows an embodiment of an initial picture displayed on a touch screen monitor in Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 shows an embodiment of a living information and picture for retrieving the information displayed on

the touch screen monitor in a top-down manner.

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION The moving picture advertising monitor (10) displays an advertising information regarding advertising good and an affiliated shop which sells such goods in a moving picture.

Said moving picture advertising monitor (10) displays an advertising information which is outputted from PC body (50) and then inputted through a VCD cartridge (51) thereto.

A moving picture keyboard (11) comprises a selecting button which retrieves an advertising information displayed on the moving picture advertising monitor (10) and outputs a specific good and discount coupon of the affiliated shop that sells such good.

Said moving picture keyboard (12) also comprises forward and backward selecting button capable of retrieving an moving picture advertising picture forwardly and backwardly, a stop button for stopping transiently the advertising picture and a coupon outputting button for outputting a discount coupon.

An telemarketing good advertising monitor (20) displays an advertising information regarding telemarketing goods stored on CD and the affiliated shop

that sells such good.

A telemarketing good keyboard (21) comprises a selecting button which retrieves an advertising information displayed on the advertising monitor (20) and outputs a specific telemarketing good and a discount coupon of an affiliated shop that sells such good.

Said keyboard (21) also comprises forward and backward selecting buttons capable of retrieving an moving picture advertising picture forwardly and backwardly, a stop button for stopping transiently the advertising picture, a coupon outputting button for outputting a discount coupon, an on/off button for playing CD and the like.

CDP body (30) permits the advertising information displayed on the monitor (20) to be displayed on the moving picture advertising monitor (10) at the same time, if a communication between a PC body (50) and a server (51), which are illustrated hereinafter, is cut off.

According to the present invention, the CDP body (30) has therein an specific operating program which permits to retrieve an advertising information and output a discount coupon printing signal and which enables the advertising information displayed on the monitor (20) to be displayed on the moving picture advertising monitor (10) at the same time, if a communication between PC body

(50) and server (51) is cut off.

The touch screen monitor (40) displays a living information and a retrieving picture of the information which are guided unattendedly.

The touch screen monitor (40) displays a living information and the retrieved picture of the information which are inputted through a VCD cartridge (51) from the PC body (5 0) and which are guided unattendedly.

The PC body (50) provides the touch screen monitor (40) with an advertising picture, retrieves an advertising information in accordance with an operating of the keyboard (11) and outputs a specific advertising good and a discount coupon printing signal for outputting a discount coupon of a affiliated shop which sells the good.

As shown in Fig. 2, the PC body (50) is designed to construct multi-picture advertising network by being connected to a server (52) which comprises a database (DB) of the advertising information and living information displayed on the moving picture monitor (10) and the touch screen monitor (40) through a telecommunication modem (53) and a telecommunication line (54).

As shown in Fig. 3, the PC body (50) permits an advertising information displayed on the moving picture monitor (10) to be displayed on the touch screen monitor (40) simultaneously before until the touch screen monitor

(40) is switched on and thus the living information and the retrieved picture, which are guided unattendedly, are displayed. As shown in Fig. 4, the PC body (50) permits the living information and the information retrieving picture displayed on the touch screen monitor (40) to be displayed as a top-down manner, and then a living information displayed finally to be outputted by the printer (60) in a specific format.

According to the present invention, it is desirable to use Pentium II as PC body (50) which includes therein a specific operating program capable of performing such all of operations.

Upon receiving a discount coupon printing signal and a living information printing signal outputted from CDP body (30) and PC body (50), printer (60) outputs a discount coupon and a living information magazine.

Said printer (60) comprises a coupon printer (61) for outputting a advertising goods and a discount coupon of its affiliated shop displayed on the moving picture advertising monitor (10) and telemarketing good advertising monitor (20), and a information magazine printer (62) for outputting a living information displayed finally on the touch screen monitor (40).

Apparatus for unattendedly furnishing multi-picture synthetic information of such construction according to

the present invention operates as follows.

As shown Figs. 1 and 2, the apparatus for unattendedly furnishing multi-picture synthetic information having such construction according to the present invention is designed to construct multi-picture advertising network by connecting the PC body (50) to a server (52) which comprises a database (DB) of the advertising information and living information displayed on the moving picture monitor (10) and the touch screen monitor (40) through a communication modem (53) and a communication line (54).

The server (52) stores various kinds of advertising information and living information in the database (DB) and then inputs such information through the telecommunication modem (10) and the touch screen monitor (40) to the PC body (50).

At this time, server (52) and PC body (50) perform a bi-direction communication each other to display an advertising information and a living information, and each retrieving picture regarding them on the moving picture monitor (10) and the touch screen monitor (40).

As described above, if a communication between the sever (52) and PC body (50) is established, an advertising information and a living information, and each retrieving picture regarding them begin to be displayed repeatedly on

the moving picture information monitor (10) and the touch screen monitor (40) in a specific cycle, and if On/Off button is selected to On position, a telemarketing good advertising information begins to be displayed repeatedly on the telemarketing good advertising monitor (20) in a specific cycle.

A repetition cycle of the advertising cycle displayed on said monitors (10,20, 40) is varied in accordance with an advertising information amount and a living information amount which are provided by its advertising owner and information provider.

Also, in case that user operates the moving picture keyboard (11), telemarketing good keyboard (21) and a touch screen switch, the moving picture monitor (10), the touch screen monitor (40) and the telemarketing good monitor (20) display the advertising information and living information, not displaying repeatedly them.

Whereas, if user does not operate the keyboards (11, 12) and screen switch while he retrieves the advertising information and living information during a certain time (for example, two to three minutes), the moving picture monitor (10), touch screen monitor (40) and telemarketing good monitor (20) display repeatedly the initial advertising information controlled by PC body (50) and CDP body (30).

Particularly, an initial picture displayed on the touch screen monitor (40) so as to show various kinds of advertising information and living information is shown in Fig. 3.

In Fig. 3, a text picture for representing a retrieval advertising information and living information is displayed on the left and right sides of the monitor screen, and a moving picture advertising information, which is displayed on the moving picture monitor (10), is displayed on the center of the monitor screen, that is, a moving picture advertising screen.

A character information on the text screen as depicted in Fig. 3 shows an embodiment for illustrating a service contents capable of outputting a discount coupon of a discount affiliated shop and a specific living information magazine after retrieving an advertising information and living information, using the apparatus for unattendedly furnishing multi-picture synthetic information according to the present invention.

For example, in case that an arriving and sending public telephone, a digital electronic watch, an automatic ticket selling device, a credit card inquiry device, a note/check identifying device and the like are installed to the apparatus for unattendedly furnishing multi-picture synthetic information according to the present invention

and that an additional operating program is loaded to PC body (50), an arriving and sending function of public telephone, pager calling function, watch function, automatic ticket selling function, a credit inquiry function, a note/check identifying function and the like can be added, besides functions capable of retrieving the advertising information and living information (an electronic living information, an traffic/geography guiding information, a civil affair guiding information, a civil affair document issuing guiding information and the like).

When the advertising information, living information and each of retrieving picture are displayed on the moving picture monitor (10) and the touch screen monitor (40), and advertising information regarding a telemarketing good and its affiliated shop is displayed on the telemarketing good advertising monitor (20), if a communication between PC body (50) and server (51) is cut off, the telemarketing good advertising displayed on the telemarketing good advertising monitor (20) is displayed on the moving picture advertising monitor (10). That is, if a communication between PC body (50) and server (51) is cut off, an advertising information provided in the PC body (50) is also cut off and thus telemarketing good advertising information is displayed on the telemarketing

good advertising monitor (10).

If user operates sequentially a forward and backward selecting button, a stop button and a coupon outputting button in order to output a discount coupon after he has retrieved advertising information displayed on the moving picture monitor (10), the PC body (50) outputs a discount coupon printing signal for outputting a discount coupon.

Subsequently, if a discount coupon printing signal outputted from the PC body (50) is inputted to a coupon printer (61) among said printers (60), the printer (61) outputs a specific discount affiliated shop and a discount coupon for its good.

Also, if user operates sequentially a forward and backward selecting button of the telemarketing good keyboard (21), a stop button and a coupon outputting button in order to output a discount coupon after he has retrieved telemarketing good advertising information displayed on the telemarketing good advertising monitor (20), the CDP body (30) outputs a discount coupon printing signal for outputting a discount coupon.

Subsequently, if a discount coupon printing signal outputted from the CDP body (30) is inputted to a coupon printer (61) among said printers (60), the coupon printer (61) outputs a specific discount affiliated shop and an discount coupon for its good.

Next, if user switches on a touch screen switch in the touch screen monitor (40) in order to output a discount coupon and a specific living information magazine after he has retrieved an advertising information and living information displayed on the touch screen monitor (40), the PC body (30) outputs a discount coupon printing signal for outputting a discount coupon and a living information printing signal for outputting a living information.

Subsequently, if a discount coupon printing signal outputted from the PC body (50) is inputted to a coupon printer (61) among said printers (60), the coupon printer (61) outputs a specific discount affiliated shop and an discount coupon for its good, and if a living information signal is inputted to an information magazine printer (62), the information printer (62) outputs a living information magazine in a specific format.

For example, if user switches on a touch screen switch in the touch screen monitor (40) in order to output a specific living information magazine after retrieving an advertising information and living information, an information retrieving picture is displayed in a top-down manner consisting of a main menu a living information --> a furniture --> Dongseo furniture - necessary items, goods and a desired information -> printing, as shown in Fig. 4.

At this time, the living information magazine regarding a specific furniture which is printed finally are outputted in a specific format which includes such a detailed information as name, size, price and the like.

INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY Finally, using of the apparatus for unattendedly furnishing multi-picture synthetic information can be constructed to be limited by using a card reading device that is served as a locking, in order for only person who has an authorized rights to output a discount coupon for its goods and a specific living information magazine.

As described above, the apparatus according to the present invention can display various kinds of advertising information and living information on a plurality of monitors by constructing a multi-picture advertising network. Also, since the apparatus is designed to output a specific advertising goods after user has retrieved various kinds of advertising information and living information, it is possible to retrieve promptly various kinds of advertising information and a living information in a specific region as well as whole country in dependance with a scale of the multi-picture advertising network. Further, there is an effects capable of reducing

an resource waste caused by a flood of a nuuber of local living information magazines which use an imported or reproduced paper and receiving easily a discount coupon of an affiliated shop and a necessary living magazine.

Although the present invention has been fully described in connection with the preferred embodiment thereof, it is to be noted that various changes and modifications are apparent to those skilled in the art.

Such changes and modifications are to be understood as being included with the scope of the present invention as defined by the appended claims unless they depart therefrom.