Showcase system having transparent display panel and operating method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9563910-B2
Application number	US-201214359434-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 20, 2012
Priority date	Nov 21, 2011
Publication date	Feb 7, 2017
Grant date	Feb 7, 2017

Abstract

To achieve the objective of the present invention, a method for operating a showcase system having a transparent display panel according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving a touch input for a predetermined area of a transparent display panel; displaying an image keyboard; receiving product information; and connecting information on the predetermined area and the product information to store the connected information, or the invention comprises the steps of: recognizing a predetermined product; receiving a touch input for a predetermined area of a transparent display panel; and connecting information on the predetermined area and information on the predetermined product to store the connected information.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for operating a showcase system, the showcase system having a transparent display panel, the method comprising:
uniformly transmitting light to a lower and an upper of a plurality of showrooms in which products are exhibited such that light reaches products exhibited on the lower showroom without being blocked by the upper showroom;
receiving touch input to a predetermined area of the transparent display panel;
displaying an image keyboard;
receiving product information; and
mapping information regarding the predetermined area and the product information to each other to store the same,
wherein the showcase system includes:
the plurality of showrooms in which products are exhibited,
the transparent display panel placed at a front side of the showrooms,
a light source unit including a plurality of lamps arranged obliquely in a direction from a position on the front side of the showrooms above the transparent display panel to a position on a top side of the showrooms such that the light is transmitted uniformly to the plurality of showrooms, and
transparent frames placed at right and left sides of the showrooms.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein in the displaying, the image keyboard is displayed such that at least a portion of the image keyboard overlaps the predetermined area.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the product information includes at least one of product name, kind, quantity, price and event information.

4. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising mapping the information regarding the predetermined area, the product information and an image associated with the product to one another to store the same.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein each of the showrooms includes a shelf on which the products are exhibited, and
wherein a shelf of the lower showroom has a longer length than a shelf of the upper showroom so that the uniform light reaches products on the shelf of the lower showroom without being blocked by the shelf of the upper showroom.

6. A method for operating a showcase system, the showcase system having a transparent display panel, the method comprising:
uniformly transmitting light to a lower and an upper of a plurality of showrooms in which products are exhibited such that light reaches products exhibited on the lower showroom without being blocked by the upper showroom;
recognizing a predetermined product in any of the plurality of showrooms provided the uniformly transmitted light;
receiving touch input to a predetermined area of the transparent display panel; and
mapping information regarding the predetermined area and information regarding the predetermined product to each other to store the same,
wherein the showcase system includes:
the plurality of showrooms in which products are exhibited,
the transparent display panel placed at a front side of the showrooms,
a light source unit including a plurality of lamps arranged obliquely to transmit the light uniformly to the plurality of showrooms, and
transparent frames placed at right and left sides of the showrooms.

7. The method according to claim 6 , further comprising displaying information regarding division of areas of the transparent display panel.

8. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the information regarding the predetermined product includes at least one of product name, kind, quantity, price and event information.

9. The method according to claim 6 , further comprising mapping the information regarding the predetermined area, the information regarding the predetermined product and an image associated with the product to one another to store the same.

10. The method according to claim 6 , wherein, in the recognizing, the predetermined product is recognized via a barcode scanner or a camera provided the uniformly transmitted light and a position of the predetermined product is concatenated with the predetermined area of the transparent display panel in front of the product.

11. The method according to claim 10 , wherein each of the showrooms includes a shelf on which the products are exhibited, and
wherein a shelf of the lower showroom has a longer length than a shelf of the upper showroom so that the uniform light reaches products on the shelf of the lower showroom and the predetermined product is recognized via the barcode scanner or the camera.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc
• Lg Elctronics Inc

Inventors

• Lee Ki Young
• Han Sung Wook
• Kim Jun
• Lee Young Jun
• Han Jae Min
• Park Joon Young

Classifications

• G06F3/04886

  by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus · CPC title

• G09F9/00 Primary

  Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements (in which the variable information is permanently attached to a movable support G09F11/00; abacus G06C1/00; slide-rules G06G1/00) · CPC title

• G06Q30/0623 Primary

  by investigating goods or services · CPC title

• G06F3/02

  Input arrangements using manually operated switches, e.g. using keyboards or dials · CPC title

• G06K7/10

  by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. optical sensing; by corpuscular radiation · CPC title