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US 8,007,896 B2Granted
Textured window film
AssigneeArtscape, Inc.
InventorsThomas Hicks, Michael John Kyne
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Abstract
A textured window film has a prismatic effect that allows a substantial amount of incoming light to pass through a window while refracting the light at random or semi-random angles in a manner that distorts viewed images. The result is a window film that is brighter and more vibrant while also providing visual privacy. The textured window film can therefore better simulate real textured and colored glass.
Claims23
A textured window film, comprising:
- a polymeric film;
- a patterned layer printed onto the polymeric film comprising multiple different raised areas grouped to form a variety of different asymmetrical shapes that are aligned in different asymmetrical orientations with respect to other different asymmetrical shapes formed by one or more groups of other adjacent raised areas, the raised areas also forming a repeated printed pattern that extends over a top surface of the polymeric film;
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- a shape defining layer printed over the polymeric film comprising multiple substantially flat areas to surround and define the asymmetrical shapes formed by the raised areas, wherein the asymmetrical shapes formed by the raised areas are unevenly and asymmetrically spaced apart from the one or more groups of the adjacent raised areas by the substantially flat areas formed over those portions of the polymeric film not covered by the raised areas.
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A method, comprising:
- applying a patterned layer on a film, wherein the patterned layer includes multiple different raised areas grouped to form a variety of different asymmetrical shapes that are aligned in different asymmetrical orientations with respect to other different asymmetrical shapes formed by one or more groups of other adjacent raised areas, wherein the asymmetrical shapes formed by the raised areas are unevenly and asymmetrically spaced apart from adjacent raised areas by asymmetrically shaped flat areas on the film that are not covered by the patterned layer;
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- applying another layer on the film comprising multiple substantially flat areas to surround and define the asymmetrical shapes formed by the raised areas, wherein the asymmetrical shapes formed by the raised areas are unevenly and asymmetrically spaced apart from the one or more groups of the adjacent raised areas by the substantially flat areas formed over those portions of the polymeric film not covered by the raised areas.
A textured window film, comprising:
- a polymeric film configured to attach onto a window;
- a patterned layer disposed on the polymeric film forming discrete bumps on a top surface of the polymeric film that cover some areas of the polymeric film, while leaving other areas of the same top surface of the polymeric film completely uncovered by the patterned layer, wherein the discrete bumps are grouped to form different asymmetrical shapes that are aligned in different asymmetrical orientations to each other;
- a substantially uniform layer disposed over the discrete bumps and over the uncovered areas of the polymeric film;
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- a separation layer disposed on one or more portions of the substantially uniform second layer over the uncovered areas on the polymeric film, wherein the separation layer comprises multiple substantially flat areas to surround and define the asymmetrical shapes formed by the discrete bumps, wherein the asymmetrical shapes formed by the discrete bumps are unevenly and asymmetrically spaced apart from the each other by the substantially flat areas.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.