Picture-showing facility including special effect devices

Abstract

The present invention provides a picture-showing facility, including a plurality of special effect devices, motion seat assemblies, and a control unit capable of controlling the special effect devices and the motion seat assemblies. The special effect devices include a fog generation device and a fan, and further include at least one selected from a group consisting of a bubble generation device, a laser generation device, a strobe generation device, and a scent generation device. Further, the present invention provides a method of showing a picture in the picture-showing facility.Accordingly, the present invention can provide a picture-showing facility equipped with special effect devices, which can maximize the audience's bodily sensation without interfering with the immersion of the audience in pictures, and provide motion seat assemblies enabling motions capable of reducing a motional burden placed on feeble persons.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]The present invention relates, in general, to a picture-showing facility including special effect devices. More particularly, the present invention relates to a picture-showing facility, which includes a plurality of special effect devices, motion seat assemblies, and a control unit capable of controlling the special effect devices and the motion seat assemblies, and in which the special effect devices include a fog generation device and a fan, and further include at least one selected from a group composed of a bubble generation device, a laser generation device, a strobe generation device, and a scent generation device.[0003]Further, the present invention relates to a method of showing pictures in the picture-showing facility.[0004]2. Description of the Related Art[0005]Hitherto, typical facilities such as theaters where pictures are shown have functioned only as places to show pictures. Recently, facilities such as t...

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[0014]Accordingly, the present invention has been made keeping in mind the above problems occurring in the prior art, and an object of the present invention is to provide a picture-showing facility, in which other special effect devices, capable of maximizing a viewer's bodily sensation without interfering with the immersion of the viewer in a movie, are added to conventional special effect devices such as a fog generation device and a fan.

[0015]Another object of the present invention is to provide a picture-showing facility, which includes motion seats enabling motions capable of reducing the motional burden placed on feeble persons so that motion seats can be used in typical picture-showing facilities, unlike motion seats used in theme parks.

[0016]A further object of the present invention is to develop a system, which can stop motion seats and can prompt viewers to safely exit a picture-showing facility when an unexpected accident occurs while a picture is being watched.

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However, the kind of conventional special effect devices is restrictive.

Thus, the audience's satisfaction in terms of bodily sensation which can be derived from the special effects is comparatively low.

For example, the special effect devices that have been used in existing 4-D theaters have been limited to water supply devices, such as dry ice devices, raining devices (water shooters), etc., that enable an audience to be touched by water and blowing devices, such as fans, etc., that enable the members of an audience to feel wind.

However, the motion seats could not be used in theaters other than special places, such as theme parks.

First, unlike theme parks which can use the physical or psychological condition of the person to easily control whether that person is allowed to enter into a facility and become a member of an audience, an unspecified number of the general public including children or old people use theaters.

Hence, operation of motion seats may strain feeble members of the audience.

Second, unlike theme parks in which the running time of a picture is relatively short and the number of kinds of movies is small, in theaters which show typical pictures, the operation of motion seats may interfere with the immersion of audiences in the picture.

Moreover, when motion seats are used, coping with an unexpected accident occurring in the audience is required.

However, in general theaters unlike theme parks, it is not easy to cope with this unexpected accident.

For example, if a shock is applied to the heart of an audience by the operation of the motion seat and thus the audience moves when the motion seat is being operated, there is a probability of a secondary accident.

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