Abstract: A transformative, collapsible, portable and versatile personal display system is disclosed having a compact, lightweight collapsible structure enabling applications from eyeglass form virtual, augmented, mixed or experimental reality to a comfortable, portable wristwatch form.

Abstract: A transformative, collapsible, portable and versatile personal display system is disclosed having a compact, lightweight collapsible structure enabling applications from eyeglass form virtual, augmented, mixed or experimental reality to a comfortable, portable wristwatch form.

Abstract: An integrated entertainment system is presented having a novel, ergonomic, lightweight augmented/virtual headset and novel activation accessories, together with a novel image/data projector which enables new levels of entertainment. The novel headset includes complementary, catadioptric optics and a foldable, transformable design and construction. The integrated accessories include a low-cost construction of identifiable, augmented reality target. The integrated data/image project includes a lightweight, compact construction enabling continuous, two-axis, 360-degree rotation without electrical transfer by slip rings or other means.

Abstract: An improved method and device for entertainment and the display of images incorporating the audience in a performance including the integration of independent, mobile three-dimensional audience display elements. Improved methods for manufacturing an integrated visual display incorporating scanned light sources in the audience display elements.

Abstract: Improvements to light equipment are disclosed, including modular constructions of both lighting fixtures and of units for distribution and, if desired, dimming.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an improved method and device for the display of a images incorporating the audience in a performance together with the integration of independently translocated three-dimensional displays. Improved methods for manufacturing a visual display incorporating a scanned light source and presenting visual information are also disclosed.

Abstract: A high performance, efficiency compact optical light beam and modifier system with reduced artifacts is presented. The design may incorporate a spiral entrance aperture with corresponding spiral masks where modification is accomplished by rotating the masks about the central axis relative to the entrance aperture. Light recapture or complex, continuous optics may be employed to increase the optical efficiency, reduce the physical dimensions, integrate condensing, or image projection functions in a reduced number of optical components.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an improved method and device for the display of a three-dimensional image with visual accommodation, including an improved method for manufacturing a visual display incorporating a scanned light source. An improved method of presenting visual information is also disclosed.

Abstract: A simplified performance wand display system with an illuminated wand display and having other modalities such as audio and tactile is disclosed. The display utilizes the persistence of vision approach and presents a series of dynamic images and text on each cycle. Programming images and sounds may be controlled by external sources including projectors and Internet displays. Each wand may be assigned an identity at performance time based on its current location. A strategy and physical game model is presented. Applications include promotions, toys, games, gifts and related novelties.

Abstract: A color changer system including a pair of slidable color filter plates or a pair of rotatable color filter disks positioned on opposed side of a beam aperture through which a beam of white light passes. The pair of filter plates or filter disks are simultaneously movable or rotatable, respectively, across the beam aperture orthogonal to the beam axis so as to enhance a particular color. The movement of the filter plates or disks are movable into the beam symmetrical to the center of the beam aperture so that distribution of color saturation of the beam is symmetrical about the center of the beam aperture during movement of said first and second color filter means. Progressive variable filtering regions defining a plurality of color enhancing capacities either included diffused color filtering material or dichroic color filtering material. When the dichroic color filtering material is used, alternating clear and dichroic filtering strips are located in each filtering region.

Abstract: A color changer system including a pair of slidable color filter plates or a pair of rotatable color filter disks positioned on opposed side of a beam aperture through which a beam of white light passes. The pair of filter plates or filter disks are simultaneously movable or rotatable, respectively, across the beam aperature orthogonal to the beam axis so as to enhance a particular color. The movement of the filter plates or disks are movable into the beam symmetrical to the center of the beam aperture so that distribution of color saturation of the beam is symmetrical about the center of the beam aperture during movement of said first and second color filter means. Progressive variable filtering regions defining a plurality of color enhancing capacities either included diffused color filtering material or dichroic color filtering material. When the dichroic color filtering material is used, alternating clear and dichroic filtering strips are located in each filtering region.

Abstract: A color changer system mounted at the light beam emission end of a luminaire. The system includes a support frame secured to the housing and disposed transverse to the beam, a plurality of iris units each having a plurality of colored, translucent leaves rotatably attached to the support frame, and a circular control plate rotatably mounted to the support frame and having a control slot in which a thrust pin of each leaf is slidably movable and a control handle. The support frame and the control plate each have circular apertures with centers that are aligned with the beam axis. When the control plate is rotated, the leaves of each iris unit open or close in response to pressure against the thrust pin so as to control the coloring of the light beam.

Abstract: A color changer system mounted at the light beam emission end of a luminaire. The system includes a support frame secured to the housing and disposed transverse to the beam, a plurality of iris units each having a plurality of colored, translucent leaves rotatably attached to the support frame, and a circular control plate rotatably mounted to the support frame and having a control slot in which a thrust pin of each leaf is slidably movable and a control handle. The support frame and the control plate each have circular apertures with centers that are aligned with the beam axis. When the control plate is rotated, the leaves of each iris unit open or close in response to pressure against the thrust pin so as to control the coloring of the light beam.

Abstract: The present invention provides a light display system for projecting a double-pattern light display. A luminaire holding the lamp and light control devices and projecting a primary first light beam is fixed to a first housing that in turn is nonrotatably mounted to a control bar. A second housing containing a fixed reflector apparatus adapted to receive a light beam from the luminaire is connected to and rotatable relative to the first housing about a first axis. At least two mirrors fixed to the second housing are positioned at an angle relative to the first axis and receive portions of the first light beam as second light beams. The fixed mirrors are rotatable with the second housing about the first axis. The rotatable mirrors project the second light beams to at least two rotatable mirrors each associated with a fixed mirror and the rotatable mirrors project the second light beams as third light beams about a second axis transverse to the first axis.

Abstract: The present invention provides a light display system for projecting a double-pattern light display. A luminaire holding the lamp and light control devices is fixed to a first housing that in turn is nonrotatably mounted mounted to a control bar. A second housing containing a fixed reflector apparatus adapted to receive the light beam from the luminaire is connected to and rotatable relative to the first housing about a first axis. The second housing contains a reflector rotatable about a second axis. The rotatable reflector receives the light beam from the fixed reflector apparatus and projects the beam in a geometric configuration, preferably a vertical plane that contains the first axis. A pan driver attached to the first housing rotates the second housing about the first axis by way of a gear and belt mechanism that is connected to a cylindrical mounting member attached to the second housing. The stationary luminaire directs the light beam through a cylindrical passage in the cylindrical mounting member.

Abstract: A light control system operable by one hand for directing the movements of a luminaire rotatably movable to a plurality of liminaire positions about a Y-axis and an X-axis by a pan motor and a tilt motor, respectively. The control system includes a first disk rotatably mounted to a support panel and a second disk rototably mounted to the first disk at the axis of the first disk perpendicular to the first disk. Code markings such as code bars marked around the circumferential periphery of each disk are indexed to the desired movements of the luminaire by simultaneously processing signals from optical pickoffs for the first and second disks and transmitting the processed signals to the pan and tilt motors. The primary received signals are analog signals which are converted to digital signals. An operator knows the position of the luminaire by manual touch feedback relating to the positions of the first and second disks.