Portable Interactive Projection Display Apparatus
OwnerMatthew Calvin Hinson, Kraig P. Kooimaninventors
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Abstract
Provided is an apparatus for holding a relatively small video or image projector and an integrated projector screen and touch enabled projection surface in place and in proper alignment in order to achieve a portable, interactive, touch-enabled display solution which may sit on a table top, a desk top, or any substantially flat surface, and which may produce a relatively large sized display for the purpose of viewing and directly manipulating necessarily large images such as engineering and construction drawings and 3D models, graphic design and advertising art, and complex charts and schedules.
Claims19
A portable interactive projection display apparatus comprising:
- a projector;
- a touch-enabled projection screen;
- a projector housing;
- a projector mount;
- a column assembly having a top end and a bottom end;
- a column base;
- and
- a holder for the touch-enabled projection screen;
- wherein the projector is inside the projector housing, which is attached to the projector mount, which is attached to the top end of the column assembly, which is attached at the bottom end to a column base, which is attached to the holder for the touch-enabled projection screen, which holds the touch-enabled projection screen, such that, when assembled, the projector is arranged above and is pointing at the touch-enabled projection screen;
- whereby is provided a portable interactive projection display which can be operated on a table top, plan table, desk top, or any substantially flat horizontal surface.
The portable interactive projection display apparatus of claim I wherein the projector mount can pivot, whereby the projector can be arranged to point in many different directions about a pivot axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.