Light Sphere Dome Projection With Beam Redirection for Immersive Viewing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modern media presentation systems limit the types of media content that can be presented to multiple viewers due to the restriction of a single flat screen, which hinders the overall visual experience and engagement.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a light sphere dome (LSD) with a display component forming a substantially continuous spherical shape, utilizing projection and redirection components to surround viewers with video imagery above and around all sides, and incorporating environmental sensing and audio systems for an immersive experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If a single flat screen is used for media presentation, then the system structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but the visual experience and engagement are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from a traditional 2D flat screen to a 3D spherical display structure (light sphere dome). This dimensional change allows video imagery to surround viewers from all directions (above, below, left, right, front, back), creating an immersive 360-degree visual experience that fundamentally expands the adaptability and versatility of media presentation while maintaining manufacturing feasibility through modular projection and redirection components.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention employs a spherical geometry for the display structure, where the light sphere dome forms a continuous curved surface that envelops the viewing area. This spherical configuration optimizes the distribution of video imagery across the display surface, enabling uniform viewing experience from multiple angles and enhancing the overall visual engagement without complicating the underlying system architecture.
2Adaptability or versatility
If video imagery is projected onto a spherical display component, then the visual experience becomes immersive and encompassing, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the complex task of spherical video projection into distinct functional segments: a projection component that generates video imagery, redirection components (mirrors) that direct the projected images onto the spherical surface, and a display component (light sphere dome) that presents the final imagery. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently, managing overall system complexity while achieving the immersive visual experience.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention introduces redirection components (spherically shaped mirrors) as intermediaries between the projection component and the display component. These mirrors serve as mediators that transform the projected video imagery into the appropriate spherical projection pattern, enabling the complex spherical display function without requiring the projection component itself to be overly complex. The intermediary mirrors handle the geometric transformation, simplifying the overall system design.
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
Provides a more robust and encompassing visual experience by surrounding viewers with video imagery and sound, enhancing interaction and engagement through immersive technologies like motion sensing and tactile feedback.
Implementation Method 1
The projection component can be configured to project one or more beams containing the video imagery in an initial direction
Implementation Method 2
The first redirection component can be configured to redirect the one or more beams from the initial direction to a subsequent direction that is different than the initial direction
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AI summary
A media presentation system can include a media generation component, a projection component, a first redirection component, and a display component. The media generation component can generate video imagery, and the projection component can project one or more beams containing the video imagery in an initial direction. The first redirection component can redirect the beam(s) from the initial direction to a subsequent different direction. The display component can receive the beam(s), display the video imagery, and can form a substantially continuous spherical shape that surrounds multiple human viewers of the video imagery above and around all sides of all viewers. A second redirection component can receive the beam(s) in the subsequent direction from the first redirection component and redirect the beam(s) in a following direction toward the display component. The system can form a dome-shaped movie theater that displays the video imagery at the display component located within the dome.