Patent ID: 8589989
Filing Date: 2013-11-19
Classification: G06Q,G09F,H04N

Abstract:
1. An in-train information distribution and display system that enables to display a plurality of pieces of advertising information on displays in a train according to a program listing, the system comprising: a ground content-distribution server that associates a plurality of advertising content data as candidates of program materials with time slots that are set in a first program listing, attaches auxiliary information that is to be attached to each of the advertising content data and that can be compared with train information collected on the train as an attribute tag group to each of the advertising content data, and then transmits the first program listing and the advertising content data associated with the time slots of the first program listing to the train; an on-board central-distribution server that receives the first program listing and the advertising content data associated with the time slots of the first program listing from the ground content-distribution server, obtains the train information from the ground content-distribution server, compares the attribute tag group with the train information with respect to each of the advertising content data associated with the time slots, determines one of the plural advertising content data to be allocated to each of the time slots based on a corresponding comparison result, thereby creating a second program listing from the first program listing, and distributes the second program listing and the advertising content data allocated to time slots of the second program listing to each car; a video terminal that displays the advertising content data allocated to each of the time slots on the displays according to the second program listing and has a station information advertising program listing for displaying a station information advertisement as an advertisement including information related to a specified station along a line of the train and station information advertising content data allocated to time slots of the program listing; a station-yard display that is installed in a station yard of the specified station; and a controller that performs display control of the station-yard display provided at the specified station, wherein the on-board central distribution server switches display of advertising contents according to the second program listing through the video terminal to display the station information advertisement related to the specified station according to the station information advertising program listing from when it is determined, based on running position information being one piece of the train information, that the train reaches a predetermined distance short of the specified station until when the train leaves the specified station, and after the train arrives at the specified station, the controller causes the station-yard display to display advertising information including materials of the station information advertisement that has been shown in the train from when the train has reached the predetermined distance short of the specified station until when the train arrives at the specified station.