Illuminated multi-image display system and method therefor
OwnerStephen J. Lucasinventor
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Abstract
A display system for presenting multiple images from a single art object depending upon the observer's viewing angle comprising a housing, a protective cover, a distortion lens, an art object, a support means for securing a lighting system contained within the housing, and a cooling system and power source within the housing.
Claims14
A display system for presenting multiple images from an art object depending upon the observer's viewing angle, said display system comprising:
- an art object,
- a housing, said housing having an inner housing, and a portal opening for viewing the art object,
- a protective cover,
- a lens, such lens having a flat surface on a front face of said display system and a sculptured surface, said sculptured surface having therein a plurality of carved individual cavities,
- a plurality of locking mounts, such locking mounts used to secure the protective cover and lens within the inner housing, and
- a diffusion panel
- diffusing light from said light source away from said portal and toward said art object, a means for cooling the housing in order to avoid excess heating within the housing, and a power supply means.
A multi-dimensional art display, the combination of a sheet of transparent, colorless, durable plastic, one side of which is flat and another side of which is flat with carved shapes, a protective cover in spaced apart relationship with an art object, and a source of diffuse light adjacent an edge of said first mentioned sheet and said source of diffuse light directing light toward said art object for evenly illuminating said art object.
A method for displaying multiple images from an art object depending upon the observers viewing angle comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing an art object,
- (b) providing a housing, said housing having an inner housing, and a portal opening for viewing the art object,
- (c) mounting a flat protective cover over a lens in said housing, said lens having flat surfaces and said lens having a plurality of carved individual cavities in at least one of said flat surfaces,
- (d) securing the protective cover and said lens within the inner housing,
- (e) providing a diffusion panel adjacent said portal, and
- (f) passing light from a light source within the housing through said diffusion panel in order to even illuminate the said art object, and (g) cooling the housing in order to avoid excess heating within the housing.
A method for displaying multiple images from a single image depending upon the observer's viewing angle, comprising carving various shapes in a flat, smooth surface of a transparent, colorless, durable plastic for viewing the single image therethrough, and thereupon forming the display system having varying optical effects,
- providing an art object in a housing, said housing having an inner housing, and a portal opening for viewing the art object,
- mounting a flat protective cover over a lens in said housing, said lens having flat surfaces and having a plurality of carved individual cavities in at least one of said flat surfaces,
- securing the protective cover and said lens within the inner housing,
- providing a diffusion panel adjacent said protective cover, and
- passing a light from a light source within the housing through sold diffusion panel in order to evenly illuminate the art object.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.