US 2025/0165010 A1 · DISPLAY OF 3D ILLUMINATIONS USING FLYING LIGHT SPECKS

Abstract

Present implementations can display 3D illuminations using Flying Light Specks (FLS). Each FLS can include a miniature (hundreds of micrometers) sized drone with one or more light sources to generate colors and textures with adjustable brightness. The FLS can be network enabled with a processor and local storage. Synchronized swarms of cooperating FLSs can render static and motion illumination of virtual objects in a pre-specified 3D volume, an FLS display. Present implementations can consider the limited flight time of an FLS on a fully charged battery and the duration of time to charge the FLS battery. Present implementations can accommodate failure of FLS as a norm of operation, rather than an exception. A hardware and software architectures for an FLS-display can compute flight paths of FLSs for illumination. With motion illuminations, one technique can minimize overall distance traveled by the FLSs significantly.

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Dependent claims

A method of controlling one or more flying light speck (FLS) devices, the method comprising:

providing at least one FLS system having a plurality of FLS devices at a first location relative to a volume space having a plurality of cells;
dispensing, by a dispenser, at least one of the FLS devices from the FLS system to at least one of the plurality of cells within the volume space;
selecting, based on a change in operating state of the at least one dispensed FLS device, at least one of the dispensed FLS devices;
retrieving, by a garbage collector, at least one of the selected FLS devices from the volume space;
and
delivering, by the garbage collector, the retrieved FLS device to the FLS system upon an indication of failure of the at least one of the selected FLS devices.

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A method comprising:

determining a first arrangement of a plurality of flying light specks (FLSs), the first arrangement corresponding to a first three-dimensional (3D) image;
determining a second arrangement of the plurality of FLSs, the second arrangement corresponding to a second three-dimensional (3D) image;
determining a plurality of paths through a 3D volume between the first arrangement and the second arrangement;
and
transmitting the plurality of paths to the plurality of FLSs to cause the plurality of FLSs to transition from the first arrangement corresponding to the first 3D image to the second arrangement corresponding to the second 3D image;
and
rendering images at a predetermined frequency to generate an animated sequence of images, wherein the predetermined frequency is equal to or greater than 24 images per second.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Display of 3d illuminations using flying light specks

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Abstract

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