Patents by Inventor Samuel Arledge Thigpen

Samuel Arledge Thigpen has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20170013251
    Abstract: Systems and methods for 3D projection are provided herein. Exemplary systems may include: an air pump receiving air from an air vent and providing the air to a plurality of nozzles; a fluid pump receiving fluid from a fluid reservoir and providing the fluid to the plurality of nozzles; a plurality of light sources providing a light to the plurality of nozzles; and the plurality of nozzles disposed in an evenly-spaced two-dimensional array, each nozzle including: an air sheaf comprising air turbine blades, a fluid sheaf comprising fluid turbine blades, and a plurality of lenses each producing a light beam using light generated by a respective one of the plurality of light sources and moving about a lens track, such that each of the light beams is temporally focused on a same point in the mist column producing a voxel, a plurality of produced voxels comprising a 3D image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: Samuel Arledge Thigpen