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US 8,576,212 B2Granted
Billboard display system and method
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorsHou-Hsien Lee, Chang-Jung Lee, Chih-Ping Lo
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Abstract
A billboard display method includes: capturing images of a scene near the screen by a number of cameras, detecting the images from the cameras to determine whether there is a person nearby the screen, detecting the images to determine a relative position of the person to the screen upon the condition that there is a person nearby the screen, and controlling a media to be shown at a corresponding position of the screen according to the relative position of the person to the screen.
Claims12
A billboard display system comprising:
- a screen;
- a plurality of cameras to captured images of a scene near the screen, wherein the scene is divided into a plurality of parts, each of the plurality of cameras captures images in at least one of the parts, one of the plurality of cameras is assigned with a reference line;
- a processing unit connected between the cameras and the screen;
- and
- a storage system connected to the processing unit and storing a plurality of programs to be executed by the processing unit, wherein the storage system comprises:
- a human detection module to check the images captured by the plurality of cameras to determine whether there is a person nearby the screen;
- a position detection module to check the images to determine a relative position of the person according to an angle between a line from a center of the person to a center of the screen and the reference line when there is a person nearby the screen;
- and
- a controlling module to control a media to be shown at a corresponding position of the screen according to the relative position of the person to the screen.
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A billboard display method comprising:
- capturing images of a scene near a screen by a plurality of cameras, wherein the scene is divided into a plurality of parts, each of the plurality of cameras captures images in at least one of the parts, one of the plurality of cameras is assigned with a reference line;
- detecting the images from the plurality of cameras to determine whether there is a person nearby the screen;
- detecting the images to determine a relative position of the person according to an angle between a line from a center of the person to a center of the screen and the reference line upon the condition that there is a person nearby the screen;
- and
- controlling a media to be shown at a corresponding position of the screen according to the relative position of the person to the screen.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.