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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 15, 1999
Hitoshi Suzuki, Ebina, JP;
Naohisa Koizumi, Ebina, JP;
Goro Ohnishi, Yokohama, JP;
Tomohisa Kohiyama, Yokohama, JP;
Kazushi Kobayashi, Ebina, JP;
Takeshi Igarashi, Ayase, JP;
Hironori Oikawa, Hadano, JP;
Hiroyuki Mano, Chigasaki, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus for information display for displaying not only periodic information in accordance with schedule, but also non-periodic information regardless of the schedule, to passengers and passersby in stations, airports, harbors, bus terminals and streets, and the like. The apparatus comprises an information-storing section for storing a plurality of non-periodic information to be displayed regardless of the schedule, an input circuit for receiving a plurality of input signals transmitted from an external device or a remote place and display control section for simultaneously displaying the non-periodic information and periodic information which correspond to the kind of an input signal, when the apparatus receives this input signal from the external apparatus or the remote place. The apparatus may be a multi-screen display type having a plurality of screens. In this case, a combined screen data consisting of a non-periodic information and a periodic information can be displayed, or the non-periodic information or the periodic information can be displayed, on at least one of the screens.