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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.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017

Filed:

Sep. 03, 2015
Applicant:

Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Shibuya-ku, JP;

Inventors:

Takashi Kawashimo, Fussa, JP;

Gou Kawakami, Fussa, JP;

Asami Aso, Kokubunji, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04H 60/33 (2008.01); H04N 7/10 (2006.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01); H04N 7/167 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/414 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/44218 (2013.01); H04N 21/41415 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01);
Abstract

An information output apparatus for displaying information such as advertisements increases viewers' attention. A plurality of advertisement videos (id=1, 2, . . . ) stored in an advertisement video storage areaare projected onto a display unitfrom a projection deviceand reproduced, according to the definition of advertisement video reproduction order stored in an advertisement video reproduction definition storage area. Upon switching the reproduction of each advertisement video, from among a plurality of switching effect images EP . . . (ID=1, 2, . . . ) that are assigned ID numbers in descending order of noticeability against the surrounding environment, i.e. in descending order of the complementary color ratio, and stored in a switching effect image storage area, an image ID associated with higher noticeability is set when the non-operation time (the time during which no person is detected around the apparatus body) from the advertisement video reproduction start is longer. This non-operation time is measured and stored in a non-operation time storage area. The switching effect image EP corresponding to the image ID is then reproduced.


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