Interactive and 3-D multi-senor touch selection interface for an automated retail store, vending machine, digital sign, or retail display

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8463430
APP PUB NO 20100103131A1
SERIAL NO

12589277

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Vending machines, automated retail stores, and retail displays with a computer controlled, activation system that senses either the gesture of a customer proximate product display tubes or a touch-screen selection on a computer screen. Item-based lighting produces variable visual effects in conjunction with actual or potential vends to provide an enhanced vending experience. Offered products are stored within display tubes that are arranged in orderly geometric arrays. RGB lighting through a plurality of LED banks associated with each display tube are controlled by the activation system Combinations of differently colored LED's are computer controlled on a per product basis to artistically illuminate available products and assist customers. Pre-programmed lighting sequences can switch LEDs off and on, vary their intensity, and alter resultant colors.

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  • UTIQUE, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Greenberg, Russell Jon New York, US 16 295
Mockus, Darrell Scott San Francisco, US 16 601
Segal, Mara Clair San Francisco, US 55 1187

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