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US 12,161,945 B2Granted
Mirror wedge illusion system and method
AssigneeUniversal City Studios LLC
InventorsIlana Kirschbaum, Timothy J. Eck
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Abstract
A dual-surfaced mirror for a mirror wedge illusion. The dual-surfaced mirror includes a reflective material layer, a thin glass layer overlaying a front surface of the reflective material, a dark mask layer overlaying a back surface of the reflective material, and a thick glass support layer coupled to the dark mask layer.
Claims20
A dual-surfaced mirror system for a mirror wedge illusion, the dual-surfaced mirror system comprising:
- a first surface of a first mirror portion and a second surface of a second mirror portion joined at an apex edge of a dual-surfaced mirror, wherein the dual-surfaced mirror comprises:
- a reflective material layer;
- a thin transparent layer overlaying a front surface of the reflective material layer;
- a dark mask layer overlaying a back surface of the reflective material layer;
- and
- a support layer coupled to the dark mask layer.
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A mirror wedge system, comprising:
- a first mirror portion defining a first trapezoidal wall of a mirror wedge;
- a second mirror portion defining a second trapezoidal wall of the mirror wedge;
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- an apex of the mirror wedge at which the first mirror portion and the second mirror portion join, wherein the first mirror portion and the second mirror portion each comprise a dual-surfaced mirror including:
- a reflective material layer;
- a thin transparent layer overlaying a front surface of the reflective material layer;
- a dark mask layer overlaying a back surface of the reflective material layer;
- and
- a support layer coupled to the dark mask layer.
6 more elements
A mirror wedge illusion system, comprising:
- a plurality of walls arranged as faces of a portion of an n-gon prism, wherein the plurality of walls comprises front surfaces that cooperate to define a concavity of the portion of the n-gon prism;
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- a mirror wedge extending from a portion of the front surfaces into the concavity and toward an apex edge of the mirror wedge, the mirror wedge comprising:
- a first mirror side and a second mirror side coupled together at the apex edge, wherein each of the first mirror side and the second mirror side comprises:
- a reflective material layer;
- a thin glass layer overlaying a front surface of the reflective material layer;
- a dark mask layer overlaying a back surface of the reflective material layer;
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- a support layer coupled to the dark mask layer, wherein the mirror wedge is configured to reflect a portion of the plurality of walls to provide an illusion of the mirror wedge being a part of the plurality of walls.
6 more elements
A dual-surfaced mirror system for a mirror wedge illusion, the dual-surfaced mirror system comprising:
- a reflective material layer;
- a thin transparent layer overlaying a front surface of the reflective material layer, wherein the thin transparent layer comprises a vacuum-sputtered glass layer;
- a dark mask layer overlaying a back surface of the reflective material layer;
- and
- a support layer coupled to the dark mask layer.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.