Signage screen for momentarily concealing display-like technologies that generate animation-like visual effects when the subject changes

Abstract

Signage screen (3) for display-like display technologies (1) which, when changing display motifs with or without partial animations or video-like clips, generate chaotic, fractal and / or animation-like intermediate images (2) or also variable images, characterized in that the signage screen (3) visually conceals the display-like display area in such a way that observers are neither irritated nor distracted by these change processes, or the motif change process does not generate unnecessary attention from the viewer.

Description

[0001] The signage panel (3) according to the invention for display-like display technologies is based on the special situation under road traffic law that, in the interest of general road safety and the prevention of danger in this regard, road users are to be protected from unnecessary distractions of all kinds.

[0002] To ensure that modern and increasingly sophisticated display technologies, such as e-paper technologies, do not unnecessarily endanger and / or impair road safety, traffic-appropriate, safety-related precautions must be guaranteed so that viewers of such displays are not unnecessarily distracted. State of the art

[0003] E-paper technologies are particularly well suited for display applications in road traffic (7) and in roadside areas such as parking lots (10), parking lanes (10) and sidewalks (9) with and without cycle paths as well as dedicated cycle paths or (8) because they are light-reflecting display technologies.

[0004] They can be used and operated on vehicles of all kinds (5), trailers of all kinds (5), signage systems of all kinds (6) and other signage applications of all kinds (11), such as backpacks or rickshaws of all kinds.

[0005] A disadvantage of current e-paper technologies, for example, is that they take too long to recalibrate or change (2) all kinds of display motifs, which is unacceptable from a road safety perspective. This is because the motif change appears visually like a moving image (2) or an animation of fractal-like, chaotic patterns (2) that the average viewer tries to understand, thus demanding or forcing unnecessary attention from the viewer. This situation inevitably arises because such a change occurs either in the viewer's primary line of sight or in their peripheral vision. In the peripheral vision of road users, this effect is particularly dangerous because this area is especially sensitive to motion-like effects, and the motif change effects (2) of e-paper technologies, for example, at least visually simulate or generate movement.In order to accurately perceive and assess whether this visual movement is dangerous for the road user, the road user inevitably and reflexively adjusts their head so that their primary line of sight, with sharp vision, can see exactly what is happening. Such situations, which endanger road safety, must be avoided at all costs. invention

[0006] A signage screen (3) according to the invention, which ensures that the time of the motif change (2) as described above is hidden and undetectable for road users, is the effective solution to the traffic safety-related visual motif change problem. Rapid and complete concealment of animation-like motif change processes prevents reflexive attention from all types of road users.

[0007] The most effective solution appears to be a window-like signage screen that, for example through polarization, guarantees at least two levels of transparency: transparent and opaque. If such a signage screen switches so quickly from transparent to opaque or vice versa that a viewer cannot perceive this as a transition, but rather as a hard, abrupt change from one transparency state to the other, then a distraction situation that could endanger road users, for example through e-paper technologies, is virtually eliminated.

[0008] It is known that there are lenses which, through polarization, can generate these degrees of transparency, both transparent and opaque. Such lenses per se are not the subject of the invention, nor are display technologies per se that generate intermediate images during image changes. Fig. Figure 1 shows a single display (1) with display housing (4), with an intermediate image (2) for changing the motif and the signage screen (3) according to the invention, which prevents observing or viewing road users from seeing the animation-like change of motif (2) and from being irritated or at least distracted by it. Fig. Figure 2 shows several displays (1) attached to a vehicle (5) with the signage panel (3) according to the invention. Fig. Figure 3 shows various applications of signage displays (1, 5, 6, 11) in different areas of road traffic (7, 8) as well as its adjacent zones and areas such as parking areas (9, 10). Fig.Figure 4 schematically shows the functioning of the signage screen (3) according to the invention as a fabric-like, film-like, or lamella-like screen, wherein 4a visualizes the open transparency state and 4b represents the opaque or covering transparency state. By rolling and unrolling, sliding and closing, pulling and unfolding, or folding and unfolding, or by a combination of rolling, pulling, sliding, and unfolding, it can be ensured that a screen is either covered or viewable. Reference symbol list 1 Display 2. Motif change intermediate image 3 Signage panel 4 cases 5 vehicles 6 Signage system 7th Street 8 cycle path 9 Sidewalk, Footpath 10 parking spaces, parking lot, parking zone 11 other signage applications

Claims

[1] Signage display (3) for display-like display technologies (1) that generate chaotic, fractal and / or animation-like intermediate images (2) or variable images when changing display motifs with or without partial animations or video-like clips, characterized by , that the signage screen (3) visually conceals the display-like display area in such a way that observers are neither irritated nor distracted by these change processes, or that the motif change process does not generate unnecessary attention in the viewer. [2] Signage panel according to claim 1, characterized by that it is physically a disc. [3] Signage panel according to at least one of the preceding claims, characterized by , that, for example, through polarization it exhibits at least two levels of transparency: transparent and opaque. [4] Signage panel according to at least one of the preceding claims, characterized by, that it changes so quickly from transparent to opaque or from opaque to transparent that a viewer cannot perceive this as a blend, but rather as a hard, abrupt change from one state of transparency to another. [5] Signage panel according to at least one of the preceding claims, characterized by , that the change between at least two transparency states, transparent and opaque, occurs within one second.

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