Reclining Cinema Seating With Tilted Screen Sightline Design
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional movie theater auditorium configurations, such as sloped floors and tiered seating, face challenges in providing clear lines of sight for all audience members while being costly to construct and limiting accessibility, especially for ADA compliance, and are not easily adaptable for reclining seating which degrades viewing angles.
Innovation Solution
Combining reclining chairs with a tilted screen in various configurations, including flat, sloped, and tiered floors, to optimize audience viewing angles and screen sight angles, while using a sloped or stepped ceiling to enhance the viewing experience and accessibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional sloped floor or tiered stadium seating is used, then clear lines of sight are provided, but construction cost increases and accessibility is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of elevating the audience (traditional sloped/tiered seating), the patent inverts the approach by tilting the screen toward the audience. The screen is angled at 5-15 degrees relative to the vertical, creating clear sight lines without requiring elevated seating arrangements, thus reducing construction costs and improving accessibility while maintaining reliable viewing angles for all patrons.
2Ease of operation
If reclining seats are added to sloped and stadium seating configurations, then premium viewing experience is provided, but audience viewing angles and screen sight angles deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the screen's angular parameter, tilting it forward at 5-15 degrees from vertical. This parameter modification allows reclining seats to be used while maintaining optimal audience viewing angles and screen sight angles, as the tilted screen compensates for the backward recline of the seats, ensuring that the screen remains properly positioned in the audience's field of view.
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AI summary
A movie theater auditorium is disclosed with reclining or reclined seats, whereby patrons are viewing a screen that is elevated and tilted toward the viewing audience. Comparative to traditional movie theaters with vertical screens with fixed or reclining chairs, exemplary embodiments provide a more natural viewing angle and line of sight for the viewing audience. Some embodiments are disclosed which employ repurposed shipping containers as structural elements of a cinema.