Deformed Optical Mirror Films for Virtual Imaging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current virtual and augmented reality imaging technologies require high resolutions and significant computing power, leading to long design times and a lack of artistic control, resulting in images that are often out of focus and lacking fine details.
Innovation Solution
The use of selected tools to form irreversible deformations on optical mirror films, allowing for the creation of complex, detailed images with controlled visual elements and textures, transforming real-world scenes into other-worldly virtual images suitable for virtual reality, augmented reality, and artistic applications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If traditional virtual reality imaging methods are used, then computing power requirements increase, but image detail and artistic control deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces complex computational imaging systems with a mechanical/optical deformation system. By physically deforming the mirror film surface using tools to create controlled irregularities, the system achieves detailed virtual images through geometric transformation rather than computational processing, thereby reducing computing power requirements while maintaining or enhancing image detail.
2Ease of operation
If wind-driven mirror film is used, then movement is achieved, but artistic control and fine details are lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-deforming the mirror film surface with tools before capturing images. Artists can carefully create specific deformation patterns, creases, and irregularities in advance, allowing precise control over the visual elements that will appear in the final virtual images, thereby achieving both artistic intent and fine detail.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces tools as intermediaries between the artist and the mirror film. These tools enable precise manipulation of the film surface, creating controlled deformations that serve as a bridge between artistic vision and physical realization, thereby maintaining both artistic control and fine detail in the resulting images.
3Duration of action of moving object
If long exposure times are used, then reflective photography is captured, but fine details and focus are lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-deforming the mirror film surface before exposure. By creating the desired deformation patterns in advance, the system captures the virtual images in shorter exposure times while maintaining fine details and focus, as the deformation structure itself encodes the visual information rather than relying on long exposures to average out motion blur.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This approach enables the production of high-resolution, detailed virtual images with fine artistic control, capable of capturing complex visual elements and patterns, effectively overcoming the limitations of existing methods by creating immersive and abstract artistic representations.
Implementation Method 1
an optical display having: one or more selected optical films characterized by a specularly reflective metal-coated continuous plane mirror surface
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AI summary
A display of real world scenes comprising one or more optical mirror film surfaces having one or more selected deformations on said surfaces including a plurality of flat mirror facets, a plurality of folded mirror ridges, and a plurality of mirror vertices capable of capturing and transforming said scenes into other-worldly virtual images for recorded play back video image of said virtual images and other applications; including a method of imposing one or more selected ordered and disordered deformations on said mirror film surface irreversibly as a means of forming surfaces useful for the function of said virtual imaging display.