Patent ID: 8011140

Claim:
A method for providing an electrically powered interactive canopy system and for providing and distributing less obtrusive interactive overhead advertisements in a parking lot, comprising: providing an improved more efficient interactive information display shelter system, comprising a solid canopy display shelter system, comprising a horizontally configured overhead interactive canopy comprising at least one overhead interactive display panel, where each said overhead interactive display panel is placed over a respective parking space, a supporting structure connected to and supporting said at least one overhead interactive display panel over its respective parking space so as to permit less obtrusive overhead interactivity with said display panel and so as to block light from overhead lighting sources, such that consumers in each said parking space can safely access and interact with the respective at least one overhead interactive display panel for that parking space and the overhead interactive canopy provides improved consumer viewing and interactivity with said at least one overhead interactive display panel, at least a one way receiving device operable to receive and process a signal including information to be displayed via the at least one overhead interactive display panel, a computer network to facilitate advertisements via each said at least one overhead interactive display panel, a server database to store interactive advertisements for distribution to each said at least one overhead interactive display panel, at least a one way signaling path coupling the receiving device to the interactive canopy, and further providing wireless i-casted interactive advertisements to consumers of the interactive canopy, apparatus facilitating communication of information to the canopy for display with and through each said at least one overhead interactive display panel such that consumers can interact and communicate through various hand gesture interfaces, VUI and GUI devices in order to access interactively displayed and wirelessly transmitted Internet web portal advertisements via said interactive canopy, and wherein at least one said at least one interactive display panels is tiltable for better consumer advertisement viewing; and providing a source of electrical power for the electrically powered interactive canopy system and method for providing and distributing less obtrusive interactive overhead advertisements in a parking lot.