Transportable projection-based simulator
OwnerIvan John Jaszlics, Sheila Lynn Jaszlics +1inventors
InventorsIvan John Jaszlics, Sheila Lynn Jaszlics, Scot David Sanders
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Abstract
A transportable projection-based simulator is expanded on one or both sides. Bowl-like screen assemblies partially surround a mock cabin within the simulator. A combination of projectors and mirrors reflect images of a virtual landscape onto the screen assemblies. A trainee within the mock cabin can lean out of the mock cabin and look down at the image of the virtual landscape projected onto the portion of the screen assembly below without interfering with the projection of that image.
Claims17
A transportable projection-based simulator, comprising:
- a trailer;
- a mock cabin within the trailer, the mock cabin defining at least one visual opening;
- a screen assembly having a top and a bottom, the screen assembly having a projection surface which substantially faces the mock cabin, the top of the screen assembly having two corner ends with a curvature between the two corner ends, the two corner ends of the top of the screen assembly being closer to the mock cabin than the top of the screen assembly between the two corner ends, the projection surface being substantially vertical near the top and which curves to approach a horizontal orientation at the bottom;
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- a plurality of projectors positioned to project images onto the screen assembly, the projected images substantially covering the projection surface of the screen assembly.
A method of establishing a training, simulator, the simulator comprising a trailer, a plurality of screen assembly pieces, and a plurality of projectors, wherein the trailer comprises an expandable roof section, an expandable side wall section, an expandable floor section, and a plurality of projector arms which are hingeably coupled to the trailer and to each of which are attached at least one of the plurality of projectors, the method comprising:
- expanding a side of the trailer to increase an interior space of the trailer on the side of the trailer which is expanded, the added interior space being an expanded interior space and the non-expanded interior space being fixed interior space;
- expanding the side of the trailer by expanding the expandable roof section and expanding the expandable side wall section and expanding the expandable floor section;
- assembling the screen assembly pieces to create a screen assembly within the trailer;
- locating the screen assembly so that at least a portion of the screen assembly is in the expanded interior space;
- positioning the plurality of projectors so that images from the plurality of projectors substantially cover the screen assembly;
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- positioning the plurality of projectors by moving the plurality of projector arms from a compact position within the fixed interior space to an expanded position in which the projector arms extend into the expanded interior space on the expanded side of the trailer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.