Interactive image display system
AssigneeMotorola, Inc.
InventorsWilliam Louis Reber, Cary Drake Perttunen
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Abstract
An interactive image display system includes a user interface to select a portion of a wide-angle image sequence. An image processor processes the portion of the wide-angle image sequence selected by the user interface to produce a perspective corrected image sequence. A display device displays the perspective corrected image sequence produced by the image processor. An accounting system monitors a usage parameter associated with the interactive image display system. A controller selectively inhibits an operative feature provided by at least one of the user interface, the image processor, and the display device based upon the usage parameter.
Claims13
An image distribution method comprising the steps of:
- receiving a payment parameter generated using a card reader at a user location;
- receiving a user-initiated selection of an image available from an image distribution system;
- communicating the image from the image distribution system to the user location in dependence upon the payment parameter;
- and
- inhibiting communication of a subsequent image to the user location until a subsequent payment parameter is received, the subsequent payment parameter generated using the card reader at the user location.
An image distribution method comprising the steps of:
- receiving a user-initiated selection of an image available from an image distribution system;
- inhibiting communication of the image to a user location;
- receiving a payment parameter generated using a card reader at the user location;
- and
- communicating the image from the image distribution system to the user location upon receiving the payment parameter.
An image distribution method comprising the steps of:
- receiving a payment parameter generated using a card reader at a user location;
- communicating at least one image from the image distribution system to the user location upon receiving the payment parameter;
- monitoring a measure of information communicated from the image distribution system to the user location;
- and
- inhibiting subsequent communication from the image distribution system to the user location when the measure of information crosses a threshold dependent upon the payment parameter.
An image distribution method comprising the steps of:
- receiving a payment parameter generated using a card reader at a user location;
- upon receiving the payment parameter, communicating at least one image from the image distribution system to the user location until a measure of information communicated from the image distribution system to the user location crosses a threshold dependent upon the payment parameter.
An image distribution method comprising the steps of:
- communicating a wide-angle image from an image distribution system to a user location;
- and
- inhibiting a capability to display a perspective corrected image of a portion of the wide-angle image at the user location when a usage parameter crosses a threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.