Movable Venue Trays for Dynamic Audience Perspectives
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing audience seating arrangements in event venues do not adequately vary visual and audio perspectives for audience members, limiting their experience during performances.
Innovation Solution
A venue tray arrangement that allows for re-positioning of seating sections to enable viewing from different perspectives, including 'theater-in-the-round', 'inverse theater-in-the-round', and proscenium-style configurations, using movable venue trays and shutters to change sight lines and auditory orientations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If fixed seating arrangements are used, then venue structure is simple, but visual and audio perspectives cannot be varied
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements movable venue trays that can be repositioned along curved paths and rotated to different orientations, transforming the static seating arrangement into a dynamic system. This allows the same physical seating to provide multiple visual and audio perspectives without adding permanent structural complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The venue is divided into multiple independent venue trays, each capable of independent movement and positioning. This segmentation allows flexible reconfiguration of seating sections to create different perspective configurations without moving the entire venue structure
2Adaptability or versatility
If movable venue trays are implemented, then perspective variation is enabled, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple venue trays are merged into a coordinated system that moves along shared curved paths. The trays work together as an integrated unit, reducing the need for individual complex mechanisms on each tray while achieving collective reconfiguration capability
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces intermediary structural elements such as curved guides and connection mechanisms that mediate the movement between individual trays and the overall venue configuration, simplifying the control complexity by providing standardized movement interfaces
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention relates to a method for positioning audience members at locations for viewing an event occurring at an event portion at which a live actor makes a presentation and/or a display is shown. Additionally, the present invention relates to an arrangement having a first venue tray, the first venue tray having a close range event portion at which a live actor can make a presentation and/or a display can be shown and a home row seating section, a second venue tray, the second venue tray having a downrange seating section, a first periphery event portion at which a live actor can make a presentation and/or a display can be shown, and a second periphery event portion.