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US 2025/0172010 A1Published application
Cremated remains remembrance system, and method for allowing people to remember cremated persons or animals
AssigneeAttenium I.P. B.V
InventorsKoenraad Henricus Antonius Maria SMULDERS, Maykel Josephus Godefridus MAAS, Sebastiaan Petrus Augustinus Maria SMULDERS
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Abstract
A cremated remains remembrance system and a housing for use in such remembrance system. The embodiments further relate to a computer-implemented method for allowing people to remember cremated persons or animals, such as by using a remembrance system according to the embodiments.
Claims21
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A remains remembrance system, comprising:
- a mobile housing for accommodating and presenting an urn in which cremated remains are placed, the housing comprising:
- a bottom wall onto which said urn may be placed,
- at least one side wall, wherein said housing allows the urn, once placed onto the bottom wall, to be visible for viewing,
- at least one digital display attached to the housing for displaying media,
- at least one digital camera attached to the housing and pointed towards said digital display and at least part of the urn, once placed onto the bottom wall of said housing,
- a communication unit configured to transmit images recorded by said digital camera, and
- at least one rechargeable battery for powering said display, said camera, and said communication unit;
- at least one media player connected or connectable to said display,
- at least one user computing device, configured to receive, via the communication unit, images and/or videos recorded by the digital camera, and to display said images and/or videos onto said user computing device, and
- at least one conveyor device configured to displace the mobile housing between at least one storage location for storing the housing, and at least one display location for exposing the housing to a predefined viewpoint.
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A computer-implemented method for allowing people to remember deceased, comprising the steps of:
- A) allowing a user, by using a user computing device to:
- i. digitally control a media player of a mobile housing containing an urn, in which cremated remains are placed, to display media onto a digital display of said housing facing said urn, and/or any other, typically box-like receptacle for a human or animal corpse and to display an image recorded by a digital camera of said housing facing said urn and/or said other receptable and said digital display onto a screen of said user;
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- ii. digitally control a conveyor device to transport said housing between a storage location and a display location, and to display an image recorded by said digital camera of said housing facing said urn and/or said other receptacle and an opening enclosed by at least one side wall of said housing onto a screen of said user.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.