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US 11,380,225 B2Granted
Force-orienting display system
OwnerDouglas Parkerinventor
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Abstract
A force-orienting display assembly comprising a number of display segments rotatably mounted on a movable surface, the display segments positioned proximally to each other, in a manner which reassembles picture segments to display a number of properly oriented, non-inverted pictures in a plurality of viewing orientations, where the mounting surface comprises a drum or a flat vertical surface is disclosed.
Claims19
A display system comprising:
- a display surface;
- a plurality of independent, freely rotatable display segments attached to the display surface via mounts, each of the display segments being rotatable about an axis of rotation, and each of the display segments having a center of mass that does not intersect with the axis of rotation, the display segments comprising:
- a first display segment comprising a first picture section in a first vertical orientation defining a first portion of a continuous graphic, and
- a second display segment mounted circumferentially adjacent to the first display segment, the second display segment comprising a second picture section defining a second portion of the continuous graphic in the same vertical orientation as the first display segment, wherein the first picture section and the second picture section correspond to visibly form at least a part of the continuous graphic when gravity causes the first display segment and the second display segment to rotate to align the first picture section and the second picture section.
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A display system comprising
- a first cylindrical display segment being independently freely rotatable about a first axis of rotation, the first cylindrical display segment having a first center of mass that does not intersect with the first axis of rotation, and the first cylindrical display segment comprising a first picture section in a first vertical orientation;
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- a second cylindrical display segment disposed adjacent to the first cylindrical display segment, the second cylindrical display segment being independently freely rotatable about a second axis of rotation, the second cylindrical display segment having a second center of mass that does not intersect with the second axis of rotation, and the second cylindrical display segment comprising a second picture section in the same vertical orientation as the first picture section;
- wherein the first picture section and the second picture section correspond to form at least a portion of a graphic when gravity causes the first cylindrical display segment and the second cylindrical display segment to rotate to align the first picture section and the second picture section.
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A display system comprising
- a rotatable display surface;
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- a display segment mounted to the rotatable display surface, the display segment being independently freely rotatable about an axis of rotation, the display segment having a center of mass that does not intersect with the axis of rotation, and the first display segment comprising a first picture section on a first side of the display segment and a second picture section on a second side of the display segment, wherein the first picture section and second picture section maintain display of the same vertical orientation simultaneously, further wherein gravity acting on the display segment rotates the display segment when the rotatable display surface is rotated such that the first picture section faces away from the rotatable display surface and is visible from outside the rotatable display surface when the rotatable display surface is rotated to a first orientation, and the second picture section faces away from the rotatable display surface and is visible from outside the rotatable display surface when the rotatable display surface is rotated to a second orientation, the second orientation being opposite the first orientation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.