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AssigneeSega Enterprises, Ltd.
InventorsYoshiteru Hara, Kenichiro Hayashi, Kazuhide Arai, Tatsuya Kono, Hiroshi Uemura, Hiroki Ito
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Amusement facilities for providing predetermined images to passengers inside a vehicle for amusement on the basis of a scenario while the vehicle (ride)(1) is moving in a predetermined course, wherein the course includes bright areas and dark areas, and acceleration/deceleration of the ride (1) is done at the boundaries of these areas. A video camera (11) provides images outside the vehicle to the passengers in the bright areas and images of a video disk player (34) are provided to the passengers in the dark areas. Further, sways are imparted by a motor (23) for rolling and a motor (24) for pitching to the ride (1) in accordance with scenarios. These images, acceleration/deceleration and sway give the passengers an illusion as if they had moved over a longer distance than an actual distance in the dark areas.
An amusement facility including an image projecting device, which provides a rider inside an amusement ride with a predetermined image based on a scenario as said amusement ride for riders travels a previously-determined course, wherein said course of said amusement facility comprises a first area and a second area, the first area having relatively greater light than said second area, and wherein in said first area, a rider is provided by the image projecting device with an image of outside of said amusement ride, and in said second area, a rider is provided by the image projecting device with a previously-determined image, said first area is an area in which a rider can acquire visual information from the outside world, and said second area is an area in which a rider is prevented from acquiring visual information from the outside world.
An amusement facility ride, which is provided so as to move parallel to a signal wire, and which comprises:
An amusement facility ride comprising:
An amusement facility display device, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.