Abstract: A viewing system is provided for presenting a projected image upon a rear projection screen that is rotated extremely rapidly about a vertical axis which exactly bisects the picture in the vertical plane. The rotational rate is such that an entire audience, regardless of their position about the viewing system, can view the projected image simultaneously. The 360.degree. viewing system features an optical system which rotates with respect to a cathode ray tube about the vertical axis in synchronization with the rotation of the projection screen. A liquid crystal display (LCD) screen is utilized to define a viewing window which is continuously redefined at sequential intervals to remain continually aligned with the projection screen.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 7, 1989
Date of Patent:
July 24, 1990
Assignees:
Gold Stake, C. Allen Jensen, Gregory D. Levy
Abstract: A viewing system is provided for presenting a real image in space that is rotated extremely rapidly so that an entire audience, regardless of an individual's position about the viewing system, can view the same image substantially simultaneously and continuously. An electronic image rotation system distorts, processes and rotates a black and white image upon a cathode ray tube (CRT), and a parabolic mirror arrangement projects the image from the CRT to provide a rotating real image in space. A liquid crystal display (LCD) screen is utilized to define a filtered viewing window which is continuously redefined at sequential intervals to remain continually aligned with the rotating real image in space. The LCD screen includes normally opaque red, green and blue filter panels which operate to give color to the real image in space.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 17, 1989
Date of Patent:
February 13, 1990
Assignees:
Gold Stake, C. Allen Jensen, Gregory D. Levy
Abstract: A cigarette made of cut tobacco rolled in a paper having a refractory layer with a predetermined pattern bonded to or imprinted upon the interior surface of the paper. The pattern is formed outside of rows and columns of what eventually become elongated slots when the paper burns away. The slots are arranged in lengthwise rows and also are arranged in columns. Each row has a slot midpoint which lies midway between slots in each adjacent row.
Abstract: A flat TV screen is provided by overlapping rows and columns of fiber optics. Each cross-over point will emit more light than radiates from the side of a single optical fiber when both of the crossing fibers are energized. Therefore, a dot matrix can be generated by controlling the entrance of light into the ends of the optical fibers in the rows and columns. The rows of optical fibers are sequentially energized by a light signal of constant brightness. The columns in turn are successively energized during the time period that each row is energized with signals derived from a TV video signal to thereby provide an optical reproduction of the TV signal from the dot matrix of light defined at the cross over points of the rows and columns.