360-Degree Motion Theater with Synchronized Platform and Screen
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional cinematic theaters lack enhanced sensory immersion, as they typically feature stationary screens and seating, limiting the audience's engagement and emotional connection with the media presentation.
Innovation Solution
A cinematic theater with a motion base platform and a 360-degree, compound-curved screen that moves synchronously with the seating, providing rotational, pitch, and roll movements, combined with special effects like scent, wind, and tactile sensations, to create a fully immersive experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional stationary screens and seating are used, then the theater structure is simple and easy to operate, but sensory immersion and audience engagement are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by transforming the traditional stationary theater into a moving theater where the entire seating platform and screen assembly can translate and rotate. The seating platform is mounted on motion bases that enable six-degree-of-freedom movement, allowing the theater to dynamically adjust its position and orientation during media presentation to enhance sensory immersion and audience engagement.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements nesting by placing the seating platform with mounted screens and media players inside a containing structure. The screens are arranged to surround the seating area, creating a nested configuration where multiple functional elements (seats, screens, motion bases) are integrated within the theater structure, allowing compact yet immersive design.
2Illumination intensity
If a 360-degree screen surrounds the audience, then visual immersion is enhanced, but the screen structure and positioning system become more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies segmentation by dividing the 360-degree screen into multiple separate screen sections or panels. These segmented screens can be independently positioned and adjusted around the seating platform, allowing flexible configuration to achieve complete surround coverage while simplifying the overall structural support and positioning requirements compared to a single large continuous screen.
3Reliability
If the seating platform moves on motion bases, then sensory immersion is enhanced through motion, but the operational complexity and space requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback by synchronizing the motion of the seating platform with the media presentation content. Sensors and control systems monitor the playback status and adjust the motion parameters (translation distance, rotation angle, speed) of the motion bases in real-time to match the visual and auditory content, creating a coordinated immersive experience while automating operation to reduce manual complexity.
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AI summary
An entertainment structure and apparatus principally comprising a 360-degree 2D and/or 3D cinematic theater. Seating for audience members is arrangeable on a circular motion base platform. A compound curved screen may lower from above to surround the theater upon a circular motion base platform, providing seamless media. A 2D/3D projection system is oriented within the structure to provide 2D/3D images on the screen through projection overlap for edge blending. A control system is used to rotate, pitch and roll the motion base platform. The control system can be synchronized with the media presentation. The structure includes a number of variations such as a variety of seating orientations, a stationary screen, a variety of screen configurations, and modular tracking seating.