Show effect system for attraction system
AssigneeUniversal City Studios LLC
InventorAkiva Meir Krauthamer
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Abstract
An attraction system of an amusement park includes a viewing area, a virtual area, a beam splitter positioned to enable visibility of a portion of the viewing area through the beam splitter and visibility of a portion of the virtual area via reflection off the beam splitter, and a controller. The controller is configured to generate image data based on a distortive parameter associated with a first element disposed in the viewing area and transmit the image data to cause display of a second element in the virtual area. The distortive parameter is indicative of a distortion of an appearance of an object visible through the first element.
Claims20
An attraction system of an amusement park, the attraction system comprising:
- a viewing area;
- a virtual area;
- a beam splitter positioned to enable visibility of a portion of the viewing area through the beam splitter and visibility of a portion of the virtual area via reflection off the beam splitter;
- and
- a controller configured to perform operations comprising:
- generating image data based on a distortive parameter associated with a first element disposed in the viewing area, wherein the distortive parameter is indicative of a distortion of an appearance of an object visible through the first element;
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- transmitting the image data to cause display of a second element in the virtual area.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium, comprising instructions that, when executed by processing circuitry, are configured to cause the processing circuitry to perform operations comprising:
- determining a distortive parameter associated with a physical object disposed within a viewing area of a Pepper's Ghost system of an attraction system, wherein the physical object is visible through a beam splitter of the Pepper's Ghost system, and the distortive parameter is indicative of a distortion of an appearance of an additional object as seen through the physical object;
- generating image data based on the distortive parameter;
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- transmitting the image data to display a digital element in a virtual area of the Pepper's Ghost system, wherein reflected imagery of the digital element is visible via the beam splitter.
The non-transitory computer-readable medium 8, wherein the digital element is a first digital element, the reflected imagery is first reflected imagery of the first digital element, and the instructions, when executed by the processing circuitry, are configured to generate the image data to cause display of a second digital element in the virtual area, wherein second reflected imagery of the second digital element is visible via the beam splitter and occludes the first reflected imagery of the first digital element.
An attraction system for an amusement park, the attraction system comprising:
- a viewing area comprising a first element associated with a distortive parameter indicative of a caused distortion of an appearance of an object visible through the first element;
- a virtual area comprising a second element;
- a guest area;
- a beam splitter configured to enable visibility of the first element from the guest area through the beam splitter and to reflect imagery of the second element from the virtual area toward the guest area;
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- a controller configured to generate image data to cause display of the second element in the virtual area, wherein imagery of the second element reflected off the beam splitter comprises a distorted effect corresponding to the distortive parameter associated with the first element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.