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7616883 |
User-rotatable camera for enhancing panoramic image capture
A pair of rotation plates 10 are provided on an upper surface and a lower surface of a camera body 30 . The rotation plates 10 are rotatable with respect to the camera body 30 . During...
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7604354 |
Three-dimensional projection apparatus using coaxial optical alignment
A projection apparatus comprising a three-dimensional screen, a convex mirror, two or more projectors, and an assemblage of flat mirrored surfaces that share at least one common edge or apex that...
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7593057 |
Multi-view integrated camera system with housing
A panoramic camera design that is lower cost, robust, stable and more user friendly than prior art designs. The camera design makes use of a unified molded structure of optical material to house a...
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7593042 |
Maintenance of panoramic camera orientation
Systems and methods for maintaining orientation of a non-cylindrical panorama is described wherein an initial magnetometer reading is obtained for a panoramic camera. If the panoramic camera is...
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7495694 |
Omni-directional camera with calibration and up look angle improvements
Improved camera calibration techniques, including an improved up look angle and an improved method for calibrating a virtual center of projection. By using a view camera technique for the up look...
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7268805 |
image pick-up device
In order to prevent the upper part of a subject such as a multistoried building or the like from being photographed in a short form when a wide angle shot is carried out, image pick-up means 5 ...
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7144114 |
Systems and methods for displaying simulated images
The invention provides systems and methods for generating a visual image that is made to appear to be situated behind an architectural structure, such as a wall of a building, and is viewed through...
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7118228 |
Image display system
A display system includes a single image-projection device, and a reflective surface optically coupled to the image-projection device, wherein the reflective surface is configured to reflect a...
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7106411 |
Conversion of cinema theatre to a super cinema theatre
Methods of and equipment for converting existing standard motion picture theatres to one having highly immersive, large fields of view are addressed. Aspects of the methods including moving motion...
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7097307 |
Systems and methods for displaying simulated images
The invention provides systems and methods for generating a visual image that is made to appear to be situated behind an architectural structure, such as a wall of a building, and is viewed through...
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7012669 |
Reflection barrier for panoramic display
A panoramic display system includes a curved projection screen, a panoramic projector, and a substantially conically shaped barrier. The projector is configured to project an image onto the...
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6727971 |
Apparatus and method for curved screen projection
Apparatus and methods for recording and projecting images on curved screens in a manner that imparts to an audience a sense of immersion in the projected scene. The screen is usually a segment of a...
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6697171 |
Process for eliminating “ghosting” in interlaced images printed on a lenticular lens
A process for adjusting the content of a digitized image file used in printing an interlaced image on a lenticular lens material to substantially eliminate ghosting effects which might otherwise...
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6669346 |
Large-audience, positionable imaging and display system for exhibiting panoramic imagery, and multimedia content featuring a circularity of action
A panoramic imaging and display system for the imaging and displaying of visual-media content, comprising a screen configured for the display of panoramic imagery, having an interior...
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6665985 |
Virtual reality theater
An interactive theater for creating a perception on the part of the audience that they are immersed in a boundless environment. The projection surface surrounds the audience platform and the...
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6646800 |
Visual and audio system for theaters
A visual and audio system for theaters includes a spherical screen having a desired radius of curvature while having a surface reflectivity of 5-50%, and a projector located at a focal point of the...
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6550921 |
Three hundred sixty degree viewable tactical display
A tactical display unit having a set of abutting viewing screens with each of the viewing screens located at an angle of at least 60 degrees to each other and each having an identical image thereon...
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6471355 |
Image control system
An image alignment system for rear projection in which a portion of the normally changing pixel pattern contains a pixel reference mark, which appears in each of the side-by-side pixel images...
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6407798 |
Dual-screen theater
An embodiment of the invention provides a theater having a first screen and a second screen movable relative to the first screen. The first and second screens are typically designed for different...
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6327020 |
Full-surround spherical screen projection system and recording apparatus therefor
A projector 3 is provided for casting light toward the inside of a spherical screen 2. A first reflecting mirror 4 is arranged inside the spherical screen 2 on the optical axis 15 of the projector...
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6056406 |
Projection system having multiple screens
A projection system having multiple screens for image display includes at least two screens arranged to form a polygon and a multi-projector comprised of at least two sub-projector units for...
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5920376 |
Method and system for panoramic viewing with curved surface mirrors
An omnidirectional or panoramic viewer/projector uses a single camera and a mirror with a curved surface. The curved mirror provides a single virtual optical center or viewpoint.
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5762413 |
Tiltable hemispherical optical projection systems and methods having constant angular separation of projected pixels
An array of image pixels is projected into a hemispherical projection having constant angular separation among adjacent image pixels, so that the array of image pixels may be projected onto...
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5601353 |
Panoramic display with stationary display device and rotating support structure
The invention causes a panoramic view to be realistically displayed to a viewing audience. A fixed display device displays a portion of the panoramic view and a rotating support structure supports...
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5539483 |
Panoramic projection apparatus
An omnidirectional or panoramic projector comprise several image producing devices with a common virtual optical center. The images produced by devices such as LCD or film are arranged to form a...
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5264881 |
Split static surround display system
An inexpensive surround display system. In most general terms, the invention (10) includes a projector arrangement (12, 14, 16) for providing at least one beam of energy representative of an image....
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5242306 |
Video graphic system and process for wide field color display
A graphics system provides color image displays including a low resolution, wide field background and a contained high resolution area of interest, by projecting three component color images at...
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5179399 |
Theatre in the round projection apparatus and method
A projection system for a theatre in the round having a plurality of moving image projectors. The projectors can be either film projectors or television-type projectors. They project in an...
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5175575 |
Segmented ellipsoidal projection system
The present invention is a projection system which includes a plurality of screen segments, each defining a surface in the shape of an ellipsoidal segment such that each surface has a first focal...
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5151725 |
Apparatus and method for editing film
A film editing table includes a light source mounted away from the editor's sitting position, with a light guide transmitting the light to the film editing table's optics to produce images on the...
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5137348 |
Collimated projection system with wide horizontal field, with device to increase the vertical field
In a simulator for helicopters, the images seen are displayed through the bottom windows by means of a system collimated to infinity, including, for each side of the cockpit, a projector (15, 16),...
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5121977 |
Apparatus for raising and lowering the lower screen mask in a motion picture theater
The device described here allows for the raising or lowering of the mask which sits along the bottom edge of the screen in a motion picture theater and, along with the top and two side masks,...
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5013147 |
System for producing stationary or moving three-dimensional images by projection
Device for reproducing stationary or three-dimensional images by projection, the photographing being effected through several objectives, each located at a different position in space; in the...
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5004335 |
System for reproducing three-dimensional, that is four-dimensional, images and, particularly moving images by projection, without the use of coherent light
System capable of reproducing high quality moving three-dimensional images with a non limited orthoscopic viewing angle consisting of the projection of several images PR 1 . PR 2 . . . PRn, taken...
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4991955 |
Circular projection and display system using segmented trapezoidal screens
A circular projection system using segmented trapezoidal screens arranged in a continuous arcuate array about a central vertical axis. The top of each screen is tilted downward. Each screen is...
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4982092 |
360 Degree optical surveillance system
A 360 degree surveillance system for detecting an infrared IR signal coming rom a scene. The IR signal is reflected by the scanning mirror to an imaging lens. The scanning mirror rotates 360...
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4980565 |
Electro-optical target acquisition system
An electro-optical target acquisition system having a scanning mirror which otates through a 360° azimuthal plane. The infrared (IR) signal of a target is reflected off a mirror and imaged by a...
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4977323 |
360 degree infrared surveillance with panoramic display
A 360 degree infrared surveillance system comprising a scanning head rota on a turntable having optics and IR detectors in a vertical linear array, amplifiers for each detector and light emitting...
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4957361 |
Method of producing and displaying a 3-D motion picture
A method of producing and displaying a 3-D motion picture is disclosed. Two master film negatives are prepared using a camera rig employing one camera that looks directly at the subject through a...
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4915497 |
Stereoscopic motion picture apparatus with horizontal film movement
An apparatus for photographing a pair of diagonally related left and right images of a stereoscopic image couple on to film frames of a horizontally moving 65 mm film having 15 film perforations...
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4915496 |
Motorized bottom masking device for wide and/or curved motion picture screens
A motorized bottom masking assembly for variably masking a lower portion of a large curved picture projection screen, including a bottom mask movable to various heights along the lower portion of...
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4864335 |
Panoramic camera
An improved panoramic camera of the type having a camera which turns as the film is drawn therethrough. The improved panoramic camera has a handle which contains a drive motor. A pulley is located...
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4789889 |
Integrated circuit device having slanted peripheral circuits
The present invention sets forth an integrated circuit (IC) device wherein the IC chip includes peripheral circuits, such as input/output circuits, which are arranged non-perpendicular with respect...
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4645318 |
Apparatus for projecting a largely 360° motion picture image
An apparatus is described for projecting a motion picture image on a screen that extends 360° around the viewers, by moving a film past a slit through which light shines, forming an image of the...
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4641918 |
Portable panoramic theatre
A free-standing collapsible panoramic theatre is described. When assembled, the theatre includes a multiplicity of vertical screens arranged in a polygonal arrangement that defines an internal...
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4630913 |
Extended depth-of-field 3-D camera
In the three dimensional camera of this invention, reflective surfaces, such as a prism or mirrors, are placed between each lens and its negative holder with the reflective surfaces at an angle of...
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4597633 |
Image reception system
An image reception system is provided with an inflatable viewing surface. A video projection system is arranged within the volume defining the viewing surface to form images on interior concave...
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4560260 |
Motion picture system
A method is described for producing and projecting a theater quality entertainment motion picture, by photographing and then projecting the motion picture on a screen, which creates an unusually...
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4509835 |
Three dimensional cinema and novel projector system therefore
Three dimensional viewing achieved through use of multiple lens camera with included erector lens which yield a multiplicity of side by side medium-carried-images with provisions for some overlap...
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4505558 |
Method of modifying projected images
A method of modifying projected images is disclosed wherein light is projected on a screen in a manner which provides information concerning the desired characteristics of the image. The parameters...
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