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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 9400981 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2016

Filed:

Apr. 03, 2015

Micro video assistant

Applicant:

Cubic Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Gavin R. Smith, Crawley, GB;

Steffen Reymann, Reigate, DE;

Jason Kenward, Guildford, GB;

Assignee:

Cubic Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP

Primary Examiner:

Hemant Patel

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/14 (2006.01); G06Q 30/00 (2012.01); G06Q 20/18 (2012.01); G07F 9/02 (2006.01); G07F 11/00 (2006.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01); G06Q 30/06 (2012.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06T 11/60 (2006.01); G09G 5/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G07F 9/00 (2006.01); G07F 17/00 (2006.01); G06Q 10/02 (2012.01); G07F 19/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/016 (2013.01); G06F 3/0416 (2013.01); G06K 9/00771 (2013.01); G06Q 10/02 (2013.01); G06Q 20/18 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0641 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0643 (2013.01); G06T 11/60 (2013.01); G07F 9/006 (2013.01); G07F 9/023 (2013.01); G07F 11/002 (2013.01); G07F 17/0014 (2013.01); G07F 19/201 (2013.01); G07F 19/211 (2013.01); G09G 5/003 (2013.01); H04N 7/141 (2013.01); H04N 7/142 (2013.01); H04N 7/18 (2013.01); H04N 7/183 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for retrofitting a vending machine with a video communications device includes securing a video communications device with a mounting feature of the video communications device removably coupled with a mounting location on a vending machine. The video communications device includes a video communications module for real-time interactions with a ticket office. The video communications module includes a display, a camera, a speaker, and a microphone. The video communications device includes a video communication device communications interface. The method includes electronically coupling the video communications device with a power supply of the vending machine and communicatively coupling the video communications device with the vending machine such that functions of the vending machine are controllable using the video communications device. The method includes communicatively coupling the video communications device with the ticket office for real-time video communications with the ticket office.

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