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US 2012/0231893 A1Published application
Illusion generating system
AssigneeCalifornia Institute of Technology
InventorSHINSUKE SHIMOJO
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Abstract
The system provides a tristable environment that effects reorientation of horizontal and vertical surfaces at a human scale. The system allows the engagement and disengagement of the effect via movement of the observer without loss of the intensity of the effect. The system also provides a combined vection/motion induced blindness environment at human scale with interactivity available to non-trained participants.
Claims7
An illusion generating apparatus for creating a reorientation environment for a human observer, comprising:
- a horizontal floor sized such that the observer is able to lie flat on the floor in any rotational position;
- a first planar surface;
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- a second planar surface which abuts a top edge of the first planar surface, wherein,
- the first and second planar surfaces are approximately orthogonal to each other,
- both the first planar surface and the second planar surface are physically positioned at approximately 45 degrees to the floor,
- said abutment is physically positioned a prescribed vertical distance above the floor and is substantially centered there-over,
- the observer can be physically positioned in different postures on the floor, and
- the observer's perception of the orientation of the first planar surface and the second planar surface changes depending on which posture the observer is physically positioned in.
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The apparatus of Clam 1, wherein,
- a bottom edge of the first planar surface is separated from the floor by another prescribed vertical distance,
- said separation serves as an entrance to the reorientation environment, and
- said separation is made either low or closable to prevent an outside of the environment from serving as a visible frame of reference for the observer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.