Effect control system of screening facility chair and method thereof

• US 10,226,125 B2
• Filed: 09/24/2015
• Issued: 03/12/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CJ 4dplex Company Limited (CJ CGV Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: CJ 4dplex Company Limited (CJ CGV Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Park, Hyun, Kim, Myung Chul, Nam, Chang Woo
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Kien
• Application Number:
  US15/516,201
• Publication Number:
  US 20170290430A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,265 Days
• Field of Search: 472 39, 472 47, 472 59- 61, 472130, 297313, 297325-327, 52 6, 52 9
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 1/02 Reclining or easy chairs supports for parts of body A47C7/36, A47C7/50, A47C7/54
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 1/12 Theatre, auditorium, or similar chairs seats detachably mounted on stadium benches A47C1/16
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 7/748 for heating
• CPC Class Codes: A63J 2005/002 moving the spectator's body
• CPC Class Codes: A63J 2005/003 Tactile sense
• CPC Class Codes: A63J 2005/006 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A63J 2005/008 Smell sense
• CPC Class Codes: A63J 25/00 Equipment specially adapted for cinemas cinematographic projection means G03B
• CPC Class Codes: A63J 5/00 Auxiliaries for producing special effects on stages, or in circuses or arenas

Abstract

The present invention relates to an effect control system of a screening facility chair and a method thereof, and the effect control system includes an input device for transmitting chair angle control information or effect control information input from a user to a management server; the management server for transmitting the chair angle control information or the effect control information to a corresponding motion chair; and the motion chair for adjusting a slope according to the chair angle control information or providing an effect synchronized with an image according to the effect control information.

Claims

1. An effect control system of a screening facility chair, the system comprising:

an input device for transmitting chair angle control information or effect control information input from a user to a management server;

the management server for transmitting the chair angle control information or the effect control information to a corresponding motion chair;

a first motion chair for adjusting a slope according to the chair angle control information and providing an effect synchronized with an image according to the effect control information, and

a second motion chair placed in a front row of the first motion chair,

wherein a nozzle angle of an injector arranged on a backside of each of the first motion chair and the second motion chair is adjusted according to slope of the first motion chair or the second motion chair.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the management server analyzes and classifies the effect control information into first effect control information and second effect control information, and transmits the chair angle control information or the first effect control information to the first motion chair corresponding to the input device or transmits the chair angle control information or the second effect control information to the second motion chair.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the first motion chair adjusts the slope according to the chair angle control information or provides a first effect synchronized with the image according to the first effect control information.

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein if the slope is adjusted, the first motion chair adjusts a nozzle angle of the injector arranged on a backside of the first motion chair according to the slope of the first motion chair.

5. The system according to claim 2, wherein the second motion chair adjusts a nozzle angle of the injector according to the slope of the first motion chair and provides a user sitting in the first motion chair with a second effect synchronized with the image according to the second effect control information through the injector of the adjusted nozzle angle.

6. The system according to claim 2, wherein the first effect control information includes at least one of a tickler, a vibration effect, leg air and side air (L/R), and the second effect control information includes at least one of an air shot, a water shot, a scent shot and a heater shot.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein the input device is any one of an input device installed in a specific area of the motion chair, a separate near field communication terminal and a user terminal.

8. An effect control system of a screening facility chair, the system comprising:

an input device for transmitting chair angle control information or effect control information input from a user to a corresponding motion chair;

a first motion chair for adjusting a slope according to the chair angle control information and providing an effect synchronized with an image according to the effect control information, and

a second motion chair placed in a front row of the first motion chair,

wherein a nozzle of an injector arranged on a backside of the first motion chair or the second motion chair is adjusted according to slope of the first motion chair or the second motion chair.

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein the input device and the motion chair are connected through near field communication.

10. The system according to claim 8, wherein the input device analyzes and classifies the effect control information into first effect control information and second effect control information, and transmits the chair angle control information or the first effect control information to the first motion chair corresponding to the input device or transmits the chair angle control information or the second effect control information to the second motion chair.

11. The system according to claim 10, wherein the first motion chair adjusts the slope according to the chair angle control information or provides a first effect synchronized with the image according to the first effect control information.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein if the slope is adjusted, the first motion chair adjusts a nozzle angle of the injector arranged on a backside of the first motion chair according to the slope of the first motion chair.

13. The system according to claim 10, wherein the second motion chair adjusts a nozzle angle of the injector according to the slope of the first motion chair and provides a user sitting in the first motion chair with a second effect synchronized with the image according to the second effect control information through the injector of the adjusted nozzle angle.

14. The system according to claim 10, wherein the first effect control information includes at least one of a tickler, a vibration effect, leg air and side air (L/R), and the second effect control information includes at least one of an air shot, a water shot, a scent shot and a heater shot.

15. The system according to claim 8, wherein the input device is any one of an input device installed in a specific area of the motion chair, a separate near field communication terminal and a user terminal.

16. An effect control method of a screening facility chair, the method comprising the steps of:

transmitting chair angle control information or effect control information input from a user to a corresponding motion chair, by an input device; and

adjusting a slope according to the chair angle control information and providing an effect synchronized with an image according to the effect control information, by a motion chair,

wherein a second motion chair is placed in a front row of the first motion chair, and

wherein a nozzle of an injector arranged on backside of the first motion chair or the second motion chair is adjusted according to slope of the first motion chair or the second motion chair.

17. The method according to claim 16, wherein the step of transmitting chair angle control information or effect control information input from a user to a corresponding motion chair by an input device includes the steps of:

receiving the chair angle control information or the effect control information from the user;

analyzing and classifying the effect control information into first effect control information and second effect control information; and

transmitting the chair angle control information or the first effect control information to the first motion chair corresponding to the input device or transmitting the chair angle control information or the second effect control information to the second motion chair.

18. The method according to claim 16, wherein the step of adjusting a slope according to the chair angle control information or providing an effect synchronized with an image according to the effect control information by the first motion chair includes the step of adjusting, when the chair angle control information or first effect control information is received from the input device, the slope according to the chair angle control information or providing a first effect synchronized with the image according to the first effect control information, and adjusting, when the chair angle control information or second effect control information is received from the input device, a nozzle angle of the injector according to the chair angle control information and providing a second effect synchronized with the image according to the second effect control information through the injector of the adjusted nozzle angle.