Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Shelf-like display machine and image display method
- Patent Title (中): 货架式显示机及图像显示方式
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Application No.: US11822957Application Date: 2007-07-11
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Publication No.: US07696897B2Publication Date: 2010-04-13
- Inventor: Youichi Horii , Tadaaki Ishikawa , Takeshi Hoshino , Isshu Nakajima , Yukinobu Maruyama
- Applicant: Youichi Horii , Tadaaki Ishikawa , Takeshi Hoshino , Isshu Nakajima , Yukinobu Maruyama
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Stites & Harbison PLLC
- Agent Juan Carlos A. Marquez, Esq.
- Priority: JP2006-239724 20060905
- Main IPC: G08B5/00
- IPC: G08B5/00

Abstract:
The prior art in this field had a display portion of electronic paper at a part of a shelf and showed a problem that the display portion and the goods were hardly co-related to each other in response to the arrangement of the goods. In view of the foregoing, plural images arranged in response to the number of stages of the shelves to be displayed are irradiated with a light source after each of the images is corrected in correspondence with the optical path length ranging from the light source to the end of each of the shelves, each of the images is guided to the end of each of the shelves by plural reflector members and then the images are displayed at the ends. In addition, each of the images is guided to the end of each of the shelves by plural reflector members and the images are displayed at the ends after plural images (either still images or animations) arranged in response to the number of stages of shelves to be displayed are irradiated by the light source and the optical path lengths ranging from the light source to the end of each of the shelves are set to be substantially the same to each other.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080055087A1 Shelf-like display machine and image display method Public/Granted day:2008-03-06
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