Abstract: A fibre optic display device utilizing optical fiber elements whose light emitting ends are arranged in a display screen matrix and whose light-receiving ends are reorganized and gathered in a bundle in a non-linear image-receiving matrix. A defined image previously encoded on a transparency is caused to appear on the display screen by being specifically decoded when the transparency is in registration with the light-receiving ends of the bundle in the image receiving matrix. Moving the encoded image into and out of registration causes the transparency to produce special effects on the display screen.

Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of optical fiber elements which are bunched together at one end adjacent a light source. The light emitting ends of the optical fiber elements pass through apertures in a moveable panel. The apertures may be arranged into a desired configuration and, in part, serve as locators for the light emitting ends of the optical elements. The moveable panel is moveable to a first position proximate the light emitting ends of the optical fiber elements, and where so positioned, the ends of the optical fiber elements are moved to substantially conform to the pattern of the apertures in the moveable panel to present an illuminated display substantially the same as the aperture pattern. The moveable panel is then moveable to a second position in which it is displaced from the light emitting ends of the optical fiber elements, and when so positioned the ends of the optical fibers move to form a second image distinct from the first.