Elevator digital signage display applied with AI technologies

elevator advertising multi screen

Elevator digital signage display is supportive to dynamic media contents as well as human-machine interaction, with the main functions such as remote control, face detection, real time analysis, perceptual computing etc. It combines monitoring and advertising so well that the elevator security can be under surveillance 7 x 24 hours, while the public welfare is advocated together with the commercial advertising. Advertisers and investors both can be benefited from the operation of elevator digital signage display system.

The system includes terminal, CMS and server (host computer).
Here are the SEVEN main features.

1. Emergency key
In case of any malfunction, the trapped person can press the Emergency key to call for rescue. Then the elevator digital signage display will dial the default alarm numbers, while send SMS to the rescuers at the same time.

2. Conciliating video
In the period of waiting for rescue, the elevator digital signage display will automatically switch to conciliating videos, to play the emergency tips and tell the trapped person DOs and DON’Ts. The conciliating videos can be set in advance (max to 5 videos).

3. Visual TBK (talkback)
The elevator digital signage display also supports visual TBK. Rescuers can talk with the trapped person face to face, for which the screen will be split in TWO sections, with no other interface but the TBK interaction in real time. Then the visual talk gets ready to begin.

4. Alarm and video recording
When the alarm sets off, the video starts recording immediately. Rescuers can check and look into the records piece by piece in background. Each record starts with the alarm confirmation, and ends with the rescue over. It can be taken as evidence to back afterwards.

5. Promotion based on face ID
The elevator digital signage display runs on AI series of Android RK3288, which makes face detection accurate 99.86 percent. The detection can adapt itself to face with mask, dimness, light and shade, and lock the key positions within 1 or 2 seconds, by which it can tell out the sex and age. The important point is, the detection can learn by itself, and amend the data each time. Advertisers can take a good use of the detection and display their advertisements with targeted audiences.

6. Passenger flow statistics
With AI face detection, the elevator digital signage display does help with the passenger flow statistics, including the real time traffic statistics, the traffic trend, and the lingering time. By analyzing the statistics, it will be more scientific to make plans for future activities, so to maximize the benefits for all parties.

7. Multimedia information distribution
The CMS of elevator digital signage display is easy to set and edit the elements such as videos, pictures, documents, texts, audio, web, RSS, weather, etc. It allows media company and property company to operate with one platform, so the residents can receive messages like when the power is off, or when a tough weather will be here, or when a launch event will be held and by whom. All for the residence.

Furthermore, the elevator digital signage displays are also applied in office buildings and school buildings. As a direct manufacturer, SUNTUNE supplies these displaying items from 15.6 inch to 86 inch. Welcome for more cases.

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Multiple screen display solution linked advertising and interaction

multiple screen display

In some scenarios, there could be more than one screen needed to cover the operations of advertising and interaction. By traditional solution, it’s usually one motherboard for one screen, which actually brings more complication than convenience, and unnecessarily raise up the costs. Accordingly, SUNTUNE introduced a new solution. It permits the multiple screen display playing different contents at same time, while each screen linked one another, so that advertising and interaction are combined perfectly.

The multiple screen display solution, in brief, is developed on SUNTUNE CMS software, in addition with a linkage function, by which all screens are controlled on one core motherboard. Different screen plays different contents, only the contents are linked smartly.

The multiple screen display solution is set up with CMS, motherboard, server, and of course the screens. To summarize what it can do,

1. Horizontal and Vertical are arbitrary.
Contents are released and displayed independently, not matter whether it’s one board dual screens, or one kiosk multiple screens. Horizontal or Vertical can be set at will.

2. Resolution combinations are arbitrary.
Each screen has its own resolution, but can be grouped in scenario. Supportive to 1080p as well as the ratio cut unusual.

3. Contents are managed remotely and smartly.
Programs are released to each screen from the remote server, no interference, no subordinate, mutually independent. Each screen can be set to play on its own schedule.

4. Not just advertising.
Resulted from the independence, the multiple screen display can run variously with advertising, querying, gaming, yet no disturbing to one another.

5. About contents linkage
The multiple screen display solution supports contents linkage. For example, the first screen plays cars advertising, the second screen switches to 4S car shop, the third screen to car maintenance tips, etc. By so the interaction and the advertising are demonstrated with every aspect.

6. Automatic network, multilevel authorization, remote control
With CMS, screens can be selected and operated uniformly.
With authority, contents can be managed on a large scale.

The multiple screen display solution is widely applied for elevator advertising players, transportation splitting screens, outdoor splitting screens, multi-screen self service terminals, express cabinets, custom built vending machines, etc.

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AI digital signage solution creates personalized power for offline retail

AI digital signage solution

Competition is more and more fierce in retail TODAY. Every customer would like to feel valued, and have a personalized experience. Meanwhile the traditional advertising is still infamous for its undifferentiated treatments, delivering harassment more than promotion. Advertisers would think it a waste of money. At this point, AI digital signage solution is the very way to get out of the dilemma.

1. Advertisements are more autonomous and more intelligent.
Actually, marketing is the one benefited most from AI technologies. AI gives machines the ability of deep learning. Deep learning allows data extracted and purified effectively more than ever. Fed back on data, advertising contents are managed via procedures rather than manpower. Background settings, though still necessary at the present, could disappear in future. Instead, data will be put into contexts to bring out the personalized advertisements. That’s to say, in future, AI digital signage solution will be able to switch channels on what it has learned in the previous context, and add or reduce the contents all by itself. For example, if it feels the weather is hot, it’ll switch to advertisements related with cool drinkings.
AI digital signage solution is also more likely able to target individuals. Suppose a young lady comes to an intelligent harbor house, and stays in sofa area for long periods. When AI system detects her behavior, it may check through sofa info immediately, and display the info in real time, so as to create a deeper scene of marketing. It can do more by studying the lady’s characters and recommend the sofa in her favor alone. (Of course, the detection will follow privacy policy.)

2. Two-way communication makes it easier for human-machine interaction.
AI digital signage solution has already been able to recognize the directional sound, and understand the word of commands. With the two-way audio system coming, the communication between human and machine can sound more natural, pleasurable as well. It’s possible to control digital signage with voice, not only with touch. Some day, it’s believed the AI system can take care of everything, like Edwin Jarvis in Iron Man.

3. Multi functions enhance the shopping experience.
Today, technologies have broken down the barriers between online and offline. Personal services are put on the agenda. As a perfect solution, AI digital signage plays an important role in marketing. In case a customer fails to find the goods then and there, he or she usual turns away, which means a selling would be called off. This won’t happen with omni-channel shopping solution. AI digital signage will search over the inventory, and retrieve more related info for the customer. It helps the shop manager as well, to analyze each shopping behavior, so to optimize the inventory management, and display goods better for next.
In addition to being a node of online and offline, AI digital signage solution also allows customers to search brands and locations of different floors, as way-finding navigation. Namely, when you click the shop where you wish to go, the AI digital signage will display a full map of the mall, and mark out the best route for you automatically. All in your convenience and comfort.

As new technologies such as IoT and AI continue to develop and mature, the entire digital signage market is experiencing a transformation. It is certain that the interaction and personalization will become the trend. How to integrate IoT, AI and other technologies related with digital signage, is what SUNTUNE is now working for.

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All in one digital signage and the correct way of usage

all in one digital signage

Coming with AI and 5G, more and more technologies are applied on the all in one digital signage, which is likely to play a major role in the daily operation of retailers and vendors. How to take a better use of digital signage? It’s a good question worthy of discussion.

1.In-store music and radio
Many restaurants and retail shops have sought the solutions of audio system, hoping to enhance customers experience and make the brands more famous, which is typical in a grocery called MUJI.
It’s a Perfect fit to play music with the all in one digital signage. A more creative solution is to make the music interactive. It permits consumers to enter the DMS by scanning a QR code, to share their voices and facial expressions on the digital signage, similar to a live broadcasting. More than one consumer would have the intention to make this show and share in his friend groups. This behavior is simply a free accurate advertising for the store. Stores shall take a good use of this interaction!

2.Weather-based menu bar
SUNTUNE was trying with a few new retail enterprises in the past months, to integrate local weather info with the all in one digital signage, by which the menu can switch itself automatically. For example, if it’s a cool day, warm gourmet items will be promoted and displayed on the menu board, while frozen drinks and salads will be downgraded.
The trial is a success. The weather-based menu bar is helpful in pushing catering packages, according to local temperature changes. It can not only make consumers feel the charm of technology, but also form a benign dependence for the consumers with no clear consuming goals. Undoubtedly, the push of goods tailored to weather is more likely to motivate more buy.

3.Queue up online
For shoppers, nothing is more annoying than a long queue line. So more and more shopkeepers are bringing in an online queue system, to ease down the queuing problem. It’s a virtual queuing system, actually, but effective in checking out, and displaying the position in queue line. When a consumer gets his turn, he’ll receive the inform from the system. All in one digital signage, which is good at advertising, can better represent a retailer’s business and solve customer service problems when they are waiting in line. This can be seen from the large-scale adoption of online queuing systems by brands such as CoCo milk tea.

In a point of data analysis, SUNTUNE can provide customers with an online queue solution, to retrieve data related to consumer traffic, queuing time and service time, by which retailers can make analysis for a precise trend. Of course, this will be in need of next generation of all in one digital signage, which will be applied with more AI technologies. They are coming soon.

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Naked eye 3D outdoor advertising provides a brand new display platform

3d autostereoscopic display

With the change and improvement of living standard, people take part in outdoor activities more than ever, and have frequent access to all kinds of outdoor media when waiting for cars, traffic jams and elevators. This has helped outdoor ads maintain a high arrival rate of around 86 percent over the past three years. Such a scale of crowd encourages advertisers to invest more on outdoor media. However, most brands would rather feed up the outdoor advertising with which the theme is distinct and the form is simple, not only to carry out brand promotion but also to scale out the latest marketing campaign.

As an incomparable application superiority, 3D outdoor advertising provides a brand new display platform. Particularly in recent years, with the gradual maturity of the industry chain, naked eye 3D has been greatly improved in terms of display technology, laminating technology and content production level, and has been successfully applied in many advertising fields.

Naked eye 3D displays in different places have their own crowd characteristics. Accordingly, advertisers can release different versions of advertisements so as to target different groups. For example, 3D elevator advertisement is more attractive to e-commerce, food, travel, automobile and other quick transaction advertisers, while cinema advertising media in addition to car brands, mobile phone software, cosmetics advertising also have increased. Railway stations, subways, airports and other transportation media attract more social software and information software.

Due to different application scenarios, SUNUNE has developed 3D outdoor advertising in different sizes, 32 inch, 43 inch, 49 inch, 55 inch, 65 inch, 75 inch, 86 inch are the regular with single screen. Customization is available for outdoor led 3D tv and video wall. As for the content production, SUNUNE provides many related services such as 2D to 3D, 3D video content customization, etc. Meanwhile, SUNTUNE’s self-developed naked eye 3D player can support real-time binocular 3D to naked eye 3D and naked eye 3D effect adjustment.

It’s worth mentioning here, in order to promote the advertising market, SUNTUNE 3D display team independently developed the naked eye 3D CMS management system, mainly applied for remote distribution and terminal control. By centralized control through the network server, it can support more than 10,000 naked eye 3D outdoor advertising terminals to be online at same time. The CMS system can be widely used in airports, hotels, shopping malls, chain stores besides the 3D outdoor advertising.

The combination of naked eye 3D and mobile internet gives 3D outdoor advertising space for development. Through technical experience and emotional connection, naked eye 3D advertising makes every scene become the contact point of outdoor marketing. A report says more than 80% of advertisers agree that it’s a trend to rely on technology to enhance the outdoor experience and interaction.

So we witnessed how 3D outdoor advertising came to scale, also saw the scene marketing interaction enhanced by using naked eye 3D. We also look forward to working with more outdoor media operators and advertisers to develop more promising 3D auto-stereoscopic displays, to bring up a new horizon of outdoor advertising.

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Meeting room screens on sale for conference efficiency

meeting room screens

SUNTUNE is devoted to upgrading meeting room screens, to helping clients constantly improve their communication while with less costs. As for the new arrival, here are the shining features.

With customized UI, the new meeting room screens are more practical than prior, especially the Miracast. With a simple press, Miracast starts in a blink, no matter whether the files are stored in Laptop, iPad or mobile. With around control system, the lecturer can control Laptop or iPad from meeting room screens. It means the lecturer doesn’t have to come back and forth among devices. And the splitting screen is another light spot, taking maximum use of the screen size. It permits 4 devices displaying on the screen simultaneously, which indeed is convenient in data comparison.

Convenience and consideration carries on and throughout the meeting process. For example, a welcome UI page for all attendees, a comment with electronic tagging, a record with QR code scanning, etc. After all, the customized system contains lots of practical plugins, such as Timer, World Clock, Alarm.  It’s a great help in cross-time zone meetings. Another improvement is the cursor free demo. Lecturer can move around in the meeting room, still able to go on with tagging, paging,  demonstrating. All makes the meeting more fun than boredom.

Meeting room screens are configured with dual-core 64-bit ARM Cortex A53 processor, dual-core Mali450 graphics card, and UHD panel with 4K signals in, by which even those sitting at corner or last row can have a clear view. HDR, NTSC and and high-end configurations are the main features of the new arrival.

Meeting room screens are supportive to HDMI 2.0, USB 3.0, DVI, VGA, LAN, RS232, and compatible with many an external device. It makes multiple devices working on ONE screen at same time. It’s amazing that depth of the meeting room screens is not thick at all, though with so many inputs and outputs. Cleverly, the modules are designed hidden in the metal enclosure. The screens look never more than so contracted,  so graceful, so light, and so much with free space.

COVID-19, the epidemic never expected in 2020, hurts everyone. But it also pushes forward with communications. People are after the efficiency. As a consequence, demand of meeting room screens booms up. With a keen insight into market, SUNTUNE launched series of meeting room screens, among which 55 inch, 65 inch, 75 inch and 86 inch are the four most popular. SUNTUNE was proud to take the lead in donating screens to hospitals at the beginning of corona virus.

At the age of AI and 5G, SUNTUNE will continue improving the quality of meeting room screens, making them more intelligent, and more affordable to public.

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DOOH media growing faster with 5G commercialization

dooh advertising media display

5G is a momentum for advertising media players, which has successfully drawn the attention from global advertisers. Then what can 5G do for DOOH media? How do we media owners survive at such a challenge time? It’s a topic worthy to discuss a little.

1. Transmission speed brings out the most effective marketing approach.
5G is empowered with a transmission speed hundreds of times faster than 4G. On the one hand, DOOH media is able to display UHD images and videos in extreme details, and perfect in 3D mode. This is a boost to advertising experience as well as to customers satisfaction. On the other hand, 5G technology will get the streaming video sold in seconds, and accelerate the outdoor advertising auctioned in programmed ways. As a result, live advertising will come all over sooner than ever. The cost, however, is coming down.

2. AI and AR are changing the display mode with DOOH media.
5G is catalyzing new advertising technologies, for instance, the commercialization of smart scenario-based experience, which can be carried out only via AI and AR. Give it a thought, the advertisements are now static, two-dimensional, what if they are suddenly displayed all around dimensions? Imagine, when you come into a restaurant, a three-dimensional menu with pictures is presented immediately in front of your seat, is it vivid and exciting? Well, it’s the challenge to make the advertising alive.

3. 5G technology is driving in a new era of data management.
5G means all things connected (IoT). It’s already starting to play the crucial role in smart city system. We can see it by the intelligent terminals and accessories launched one after another. With these terminals and accessories, it’ll be more convenient to gather the offline data, which can be imported into offline reselling system, which in turn can be the support for AOD, ROI, or DOOH media evaluation.

5G is breaking through IoT technologies in a fantastic speed, while AI is helping DOOH media improve its human-machine interface. As a leading manufacturer, SUNTUNE is committed to taking the latest technology as well, to promote the rapid development of digital outdoor media industry.

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What can restaurant ordering machine do for future catering industry?

touch screen order system restaurant

Last September an unmanned restaurant named Chongqing Noodle was opened in Shenzhen. It aroused a wide concern because it reminded people of Eatsa, the first global unmanned restaurant in Los Angeles, which is said running unwell currently. However, the head of Chongqing Noodle emphasized that time had changed since 2015, now that he had signed an agreement with a high-tech company and taken their cooking machines, by which he could have 150 meals prepared all at one time. SUNTUNE has the honor to be the supplier of all 20 restaurant ordering machines.

In the mind of consumers, perhaps the unmanned restaurant means no more than self ordering and self paying, while the restaurant ordering machine no more than a touch screen menu. The machine, though not so eye-catching, has invisible value in unmanned services. At least, you don’t have to wait without knowing what is going on with your order.

First of all, you need to choose menu on the restaurant ordering machine, submit the order, and accomplish the payment via WeChat or Alipay. At same time, a receipt will be printed out, on which the info is synchronized to both you and kitchen, by which you’ll learn how many people in queue, how long you need to wait. No name called in due order, only meals message sent by phone, or by a beep machine on your table to inform you the meals ready. Believe it or not, by restaurant ordering machine, it takes no more than 30 seconds to complete the whole process!

It’s said that McDonald’s is also working for its smart food ordering system. Consumers can come to the counter, or use their cellphone to book meals, then take the seat wherever available, scan the QR code on the table and send the signal for location, food will be delivered directly to the table.

As a matter of fact, Eatsa, Chongqing Noodle, McDonald’s, they all have behaved on behalf of the future catering industry, I.E., relying on mobile devices and restaurant ordering machines, minimizing human services, improving efficiency, and lowering labor fee. All in all, to avoid poor manual service, while to enhance the dining experience at all costs.

With restaurant ordering machines, the unmanned restaurants are more convenient, more leisure, and more peaceful. Consumers are no need of time to queue or wait, or ask for help. To catering managers, it saves labor cost, reduces cash risk, but holds all records of consumption, which is helpful in data analysis and later strategy adjustment. Hence it’s a very promising business model. Although restaurants are unmanned, it doesn’t mean lack of caring and quality. On the contrary, it provides consumers a fresher scenario, and helps managers lay down for more recipes and purchases.

With the development of technologies, more and more industries will be changed forever. The case of Chongqing Noodle tells us that traditional industries have no more advantages in the new era. It’s also plain that waiters, chefs, shop assistants will lose their jobs to AI machines. The restaurant ordering machine is only a beginning. If you don’t work hard, you will be eliminated. It sounds cruel, but it’s already happening.

An unprecedented business and professional revolution has arrived!

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Self service machine fully upgraded for better performance

self-service vending machine

5G and IoT bring out multiple new technologies, while more and more manual work is replaced with smart devices. Most of them can be seen in banks, shops, restaurants, hotels, hospitals and government administrations. The trend seems intensified in 2020 by corona virus, known as numerous of self service machines with non-contact mode.

Accordingly, SUNTUNE has launched an overall solution, covering platform as well as applications.

1. Automated retail vending machine
Repeat customers are important in retailing field. But the repeating depends too much on feelings, which is far enough purely by artificial efforts. The vending machines, however, can effectively reduce customers waiting time, help Quick Pass come true.
Retail vending machines made by SUNTUNE are operated on a special self service motherboard, which is originated from X86 and ARM and running with embedded system. Hence it’s rich in inputs and outputs, supportive to extensions such as touch screen, camera, card reader, NFC, QR scanner, Printer, etc. The motherboard is powerful in multitasking capability and millisecond response.

2. Bank ATM booth machine
Banks are particularly enthusiastic for AI technology. To improve services in “Smart Bank” outlets, SUNTUNE will continue to upgrade the financial solutions, by adopting face recognition and speech recognition. Hopefully, 500 more financial self service machines will be introduced in the second half of the year 2020.

3. Hospital queue system kiosk
Corona virus is hurting a lot of people all around the world. In many countries, hospitals are overwhelmed with patients but short of doctors and nurses. Nothing can relieve such stress but self-service registration machines. Actually, self service machines are helping since the beginning of epidemic. Guided by videos, pictures, texts, patients are able to get familiar with medical process in shortest time, and learn by themselves how to make an appointment, register, or recharge. Most important, the machines can run 7*24 hours unattended.
SUNTUNE is capable of providing self service chips and motherboards for hospital machines. The latter can be customized in local favor.

4. Fast food self service payment kiosk
Basically, the setup of smart catering industry has accomplished, which leaves future catering system only integrating all in one with big data, intelligence, mobile payment, and precision marketing. The catering business, as a report from McDonald’s says, can be made prosper only by adapting the new system. After all, catering system is now more functional for the cluster development. For this reason, the smart catering solutions launched by SUNTUNE are composed by both public cloud and private cloud, synchronized with multiple subsystems. A highlight of the food ordering machine is its game interaction, which is designed fashionable especially for young consumers. Of course, the food self service machine works with Pay with Your Face. It’s reserved as well for future upgrading.

5. Self service ticket printing kiosk
More and more self service machines are enabled at government service centers, which is quite a convenience for citizens to deal with payment, purchase tickets, attend to tax declaration, inquiring and printing. Most of all, the transact can be done at free time. Ticket printing kiosks by SUNTUNE are efficient in handling the self services. The self service machines can complete identification quickly, process with querying, paying, printing, monitoring at same time. The machine can also be applied as hotel self check in, airport self service check in, even as digital photo booth kiosk self service.

With a strong R & D team, SCM, and hardware factory leading in China, SUNTUNE will constantly improve its self service solutions for global customers.

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Outdoor interactive tabletop kiosk alive with AI technology

touch screen interactive table

SUNTUNE manufactured some tabletop kiosks for Europe (Here download the pictures). By feedback, digital marketing and mobile advertising are still the main fields for newly added advertising costs. However, the whole industry is in reformation, with the help of big data, AI, IoT and other technological advances. For example, contents are in transit from man creativity to machine creativity. Believe it or not, the digitization is now leading in advertising industry, and programmatic buying the mainstream way.

With AI joined in, the table top kiosk, together with other interactive touch screens, can be a strong helper in the new retail, specially when it’s laid outdoor, where people are more willing to consume. As for the changes it brings in for the offline sale, let’s take tabletop kiosk as a representative for all interactive multimedia kiosks in this article, and make an analysis following the points hereby as below.

1. Consumers Insight
In offline selling, targeting consumers is the premise of all activities. However, the traditional targeting depends a lot on subjectivity, there’s no way to tell details for all consumers either. AI is different, it can get consumers identified, keep records of their favor, forecast their consumption, lower the launch cost, and improve the marketing effectiveness. At the present time, interactive kiosks by SUNTUNE have been enabled with AI already.

2. Contents Creativity
As it’s known, most marketing ideas and designs are done artificially, with too long period of production and lack of creativity, unable to satisfy the interests of different consumers. Empowered with AI, however, the interactive tabletop kiosk can integrate and analyse materials in a short time, then generate options for marketing posters according to propaganda, marketing scenario, and consumers identification, which does save a lot of time for creativity, while attracts more attention from targeted customers.

3. Interaction Enabled
Thanks to the universal mobile devices, interactive technologies are soon well known by public, with the first wave as QR code, AR, mini programs, and later the more innovative as face identification, voice interaction, screen interaction, live broadcast, etc. The new technologies lead to a remarkable sensory experience.

4. Audience On Demand (AOD)
Programmed pattern, LBS (Location Based Services), IP empowerment, Real time optimization, these are the key functions of the tabletop kiosk. AI technology, by classifying and analyzing from big data, can find out the targeted consumers as well as their preferences, to help advertisers make the best choice on scenes, contents and time, to reduce the costs while achieve the optimal marketing effect.

5. Performance Evaluation
It’s no more a news for faked advertisements running on internet. To honest advertisers, it’s completely an unfair competition. However, when accomplished the renovation of digital transformation and integration, advertisers can see through the whole marketing process, including editing, publishing, analyzing, integrating, and completing the data report in the end. Digitization has not only helped advertisers save budgets, but also ensured the propaganda and its security from malicious competitions.

SUNTUNE is more inclined to improve this AI plus digitization supported marketing system, and have it applied on all future tabletop kiosks.

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