Personal Cinema Headset with Embedded Mini Screens
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a need for a digital video cinema system that allows viewers to experience a personal cinema experience at a specific location with the same videos as in a traditional cinema, offering individual control and the ability to pause movies, with a headset at each seat featuring two embedded mini screens and speakers, while maintaining social interaction and comfort.
Innovation Solution
A digital video cinema system with DCI-compliant players at each seat, equipped with immersive binaural headphones and adjustable screens, allowing viewers to control playback and position the display for optimal viewing, while maintaining social distancing and comfort through secure DCI marriage technology.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If a traditional cinema setup with large screens and speakers is used, then visual and audio quality is improved, but individual control and personalization are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the traditional cinema experience into individual personal units by providing each seat with its own headset containing mini screens and speakers. This segmentation allows each viewer to have independent control over their viewing experience while maintaining high visual and audio quality through personalized delivery of content.
2Ease of operation
If a headset with mini screens and speakers is provided at each seat, then individual control and personalization are improved, but device complexity is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple functions into the headset device, combining mini screens, speakers, and control interfaces into a single integrated unit at each seat. This consolidation provides individual control capabilities while managing device complexity through unified design rather than separate components.
Solution Approach 2:
The headset is designed as a universal device that performs multiple functions: displaying visual content through mini screens, providing audio through speakers, and enabling individual control. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate devices and simplifies the overall system architecture.
3Reliability
If DCI-compliant players are used at each seat, then playback quality and security are improved, but device complexity and cost are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements DCI-compliant playback capability at each seat through copied or replicated player units rather than requiring a single centralized complex system. Each headset or seat unit contains or accesses DCI-compliant playback functionality, ensuring secure and high-quality playback while distributing complexity across multiple simpler units.
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AI summary
A digital video system is provided at a cinema with a plurality of personal cinema experience area seats, each of a seat plurality of personal cinema experience area seats is positioned at a selected area of the cinema. A headset is at each of the plurality of personal cinema experience area seats including two embedded mini screens and a lens one or more speakers at each of a seat. a DCI compliant cinema player is coupled to or at each seat of the plurality of personal cinema experience area seat.