Optical entertainment system
AssigneeKaatskill Kaleidoscope Ventures, LLC
InventorsDean L. Gitter, Kenneth B. Graham
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Abstract
An entertainment system includes a viewing chamber of sufficient size to accommodate a relatively large number of viewers, and a large kaleidoscope having a viewing end opening to the chamber. The kaleidoscope is sufficiently large to enable everyone in the viewing chamber to have an unobstructed view of the kaleidoscope display. The system includes a sound system which is coordinated with the optical display. In one embodiment, the viewing chamber and the kaleidoscope are located in a conventional silo, with the kaleidoscope extending vertically above the chamber.
Claims15
An entertainment system, comprising:
- a housing having a side wall surrounding an interior space and having first and second ends;
- a viewing chamber at said first end of said housing for receiving multiple viewers to observe an audio-visual display within the housing;
- a kaleidoscope mirror tube within said interior space in said housing and having a viewing end and an object end, said viewing end being adjacent said first end and open to said viewing chamber, said viewing end being of sufficient size to enable said object end to be equally visible to multiple viewers in said viewing chamber;
- an image at said object end of said tube and located at said second end of said housing, said image being reflected in said kaleidoscope mirror tube to produce a kaleidoscopic image display visible to the viewers in said viewing chamber;
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- a sound system in said viewing room coordinated with said image display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.