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US 11,606,595 B1Granted
Voice interaction with digital signage using mobile device
OwnerJoseph F. Kirleyinventor
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Abstract
A digital signage system allows a person to use the person's own mobile device as a voice input device to the digital signage system and also can leverage the person's mobile device in other ways such as by accepting other inputs from the mobile device, providing various outputs to the mobile device, or utilizing communication capabilities of the mobile device.
Claims32
A method for interaction with a digital signage system using a mobile device, the digital signage system including a digital signage display and a signage control processor, the method comprising:
- establishing one or more wireless communication connections between a signage control application running on the mobile device and the signage control processor;
- displaying, by the digital signage system, video information on the digital signage display for interaction by a user;
- transmitting, by the signage control processor to the signage control application running on the mobile device, over at least one of the one or more wireless communication connections, audio information associated with the video information for rendering through an audio output of the mobile device;
- rendering the audio information by the signage control application running on the mobile device through an audio output of the mobile device in synchronization with the displayed video information;
- capturing, by the signage control application, user voice signals from a microphone of the mobile device;
- transmitting, by the signage control application to the signage control processor, voice control information based on the user voice signals;
- determining, by the digital signage system, a user voice control command based on the voice control information;
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- controlling operation of the digital signage system based on the user voice control command and the video information displayed on the digital signage display, wherein the user voice control command is synchronized with the video information being displayed on the digital signage display for interaction with said video information,
- wherein the signage control processor collects information about at least one of the user, the user mobile device, the audio information, the video information, the user voice control command, location, or interaction between the signage control processor and the signage control application for providing to a marketing or other entity.
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A digital signage system with interaction from a mobile device, the digital signage system comprising:
- a digital signage display;
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- at least one processor including a signage control processor coupled to at least one memory containing instructions executable by the at least one processor to cause the system to:
- establish one or more wireless communication connections between the signage control processor and a signage control application running on a user mobile device;
- display video information on the digital signage display for interaction by a user;
- transmit, by the signage control processor to the signage control application running on the mobile device, over at least one of the one or more wireless communication connections, audio information associated with the video information for rendering through an audio output of the mobile device;
- render the audio information by the signage control application running on the mobile device through an audio output of the mobile device in synchronization with the displayed video information;
- receive, by the signage control processor, from the signage control application, voice control information based on user voice signals captured by the signage control application from a microphone of the mobile device;
- determine a user voice control command based on the voice control information;
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- control operation of the digital signage system based on the user voice control command and the video information displayed on the digital signage display, wherein the user voice control command is synchronized with the video information being displayed on the digital signage display for interaction with said video information,
- wherein the signage control processor collects information about at least one of the user, the user mobile device, the audio information, the video information, the user voice control command, location, or interaction between the signage control processor and the signage control application for providing to a marketing or other entity.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.