Patents Examined by Nicholas T. Tuccilo
  • Patent number: 5365294
    Abstract: A cylindrical three dimensional picture capable of being viewed through an angle of 360.degree. includes a cylinder surrounded by a 3D photograph, in turn surrounded by a flexible lenticular lens through which a film strip, subsequently developed into the photograph, is exposed and the subsequent photograph viewed, resulting in an image of a subject which appears to have been shrunken and enclosed within the cylinder. The film strip is exposed to sequential multiple images taken of a subject by a multiple imaging camera as the subject rotates 360.degree.. The film strip is exposed to the multiple images through a lenticular lens as the lens and film are rotated 360.degree. in a first embodiment, and is exposed to the multiple images linearly through a flat lenticular lens as the lens moves linearly across the projection beam of the multiple images in a third embodiment of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1994
    Assignee: Pinnacle Brands, Inc.
    Inventor: Victor G. Anderson