Fuel dispenser with a human detection and recognition system
AssigneeTokheim Corporation
InventorErvin M. Smith
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Abstract
A fuel dispenser and method to detect the presence of a human being at a fuel dispenser as well as gather data about the human being using the fuel dispenser. The data is used to determine the language or dialect of the fueling instructions as well as the language or dialect of the advertisements understood by the human being. The data is also used to retrieve advertisements tailored to the human being. The fueling instructions and advertisements are displayed on the fuel dispenser in the language or dialect understood by the human being using the fuel dispenser.
Claims35
A human being detection and recognition system for a fuel dispenser comprising:
- a fuel dispenser;
- a database of at least one of advertisements and instructions for display with said fuel dispenser;
- a sensor means for detecting the presence of a person at said fuel dispenser;
- a video recognition means for gathering appearance data of the person detected at said fuel dispenser;
- a display means for displaying at least one of advertisements and instructions;
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- a fuel dispenser controller for bi-directional communication between said database, said video recognition means, and said display means, wherein said fuel dispenser controller retrieves at least one of advertisements and instructions from said database determined by utilizing appearance data from said video recognition means.
A human being detection and recognition system for a fuel dispenser comprising:
- a fuel dispenser;
- a database of at least one of advertisements and instructions for display with said fuel dispenser;
- a sensor means for detecting the presence of a person at said fuel dispenser;
- a video recognition means for gathering appearance data of the person detected at said fuel dispenser;
- a card reading means located at said fuel dispenser for receiving a card and gathering data from the card;
- a display means for displaying at least one of advertisements and instructions;
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- a fuel dispenser controller for bi-directional communication between said database, said video recognition means, said card reading means and said display means wherein said fuel dispenser controller retrieves at least one of advertisements and instructions from said database determined by utilizing at least one of the appearance data from said video recognition means and the card data from said card reading means.
A method of detecting and recognizing a human being at a fuel dispenser comprising:
- detecting the presence of a person at a fuel dispenser using a sensing means;
- gathering appearance data of the person detected at said fuel dispenser using a video recognition means;
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- displaying at least one of advertisements and instructions at said fuel dispenser based on said gathered appearance data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.