3-dimensional visual system
OwnerDonald Edward Wrightinventor
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Abstract
A personal visual system, 3 dimensional enhancer. Designed as a work or entertainment center. Utilizing a monitor or television and concave spherical mirror that reflects a image generated from the monitor to itself, the mirror, and then to the observers eye that receives the enhanced and enlarged illusion of a 3 dimensional image. The monitor is positioned under the table top, and is shielded with co-netic material to keep the user safer from the electromagnetic field. The monitors position also clears the table surface where the objects of the work can be ergonomically positioned.
Claims21
A personal vision system for enhancing the size and quality of an image, comprising:
- an image source having a screen of a predefined size for projecting an image;
- a concave mirror, having a predefined size greater in length and width than said predefined size of said screen of said image source, for receiving the image from said image source and generating an enhanced image;
- a desk having a work surface, a cutaway opening having a left side and a right side in said work surface, a shelf under said work surface on which said image source is positioned with said screen of said image source facing said concave mirror, a means for adjusting the position of said image source on said shelf, a mirror shelf positioned under said work surface and toward the rear of said desk for supporting said concave mirror such that said concave mirror extends partially through said cutaway opening;
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- a hutch connected to said work surface of said desk, having a left partition positioned on the left side of said cutaway opening, a right partition positioned on the right side of said cutaway opening, a hutch shelf positioned over said cutaway opening and supported by said left partition and said right partition.
A method for enhancing the size and quality of an image, comprising the steps of:
- (a) projecting an image from an image source, having a screen of a predefined size, in a personal vision system, said personal vision system having:
- (i) a concave mirror, having a predefined size greater in length and width than said predefined size of said screen of said image source, for receiving the image from said image source and generating an enhanced image,
- (ii) a desk having a work surface, a cutaway opening having a left side and a right side in said work surface, a shelf under said work surface on which said image source is positioned with said screen of said image source facing said concave mirror, a means for adjusting the position of said image source on said shelf, a mirror shelf positioned under said work surface and toward the rear of said desk for supporting said concave mirror such that said concave mirror extends partially through said cutaway opening, and
- (iii) a hutch connected to said work surface of said desk, having a left partition positioned on the left side of said cutaway opening, a right partition positioned on the right side of said cutaway opening, a hutch shelf positioned over said cutaway opening and supported by said left partition and said right partition;
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- (b) positioning said image source such that said image projected from said image source is placed inside the center of curvature of said concave mirror.
A personal vision system for enhancing the size and quality of an image, comprising:
- one concave mirror, having a predefined size greater in length and width than a predefined size of a screen of an image source, for receiving an image from said image source and generating an enhanced image;
- a desk having a work surface, a cutaway opening having a left side and a right side in said work surface, a means for supporting said image source under said work surface such that said screen of said image source faces said concave mirror, a means for adjusting the position of said image source, a means for supporting said concave mirror such that said concave mirror extends partially through said cutaway opening at the rear of said desk;
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- a means for creating a tunnel through which said concave mirror is viewed by a user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.