Modular projection systems, enclosures and wellness studios

• US 10,604,953 B2
• Filed: 05/02/2019
• Issued: 03/31/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nicole Drakulich
• Original Assignee: Nicole Drakulich
• Inventors: Drakulich, Nicole
• Primary Examiner(s): Ford, Gisele D
• Application Number:
  US16/401,354
• Publication Number:
  US 20190264456A1
• Time in Patent Office: 334 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/0075 Means for generating exercise programs or schemes, e.g. computerized virtual trainer, e.g. using expert databases
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/02 for large-room or outdoor sporting games
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 1/1205 Small buildings erected in the open air E04H1/1272 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 3/14 Gymnasiums; Other sporting buildings
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 3/22 Theatres; Concert halls; Studios for broadcasting, cinematography, television or similar purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 7/183 specially adapted for very large mirrors, e.g. for astronomy, or solar concentrators
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/00 Projectors or projection-type viewers; Accessories therefor devices for changing pictures G03B23/00
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/10 Projectors with built-in or built-on screen
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/56 Projection screens
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 37/00 Panoramic or wide-screen photography; Photographing extended surfaces, e.g. for surveying; Photographing internal surfaces, e.g. of pipe
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 37/04 with cameras or projectors providing touching or overlapping fields of view
• CPC Class Codes: G03F 5/02 by projection methods cameras G03B

Abstract

Methods and compositions for creating an immersive experience within wellness studios, rooms and enclosures, and methods of physically organizing a wellness center or studio and conducting the business of a wellness center or studio. In some embodiments the invention concerning enclosures for conducting wellness activities, such as yoga, pilates, meditation and the like. In preferred embodiments the enclosure comprises at least one interior space and at least one mirrored wall that reflects images projected from one or more projector component into a curved, projection wall opposing the mirrored wall.

Claims

1. A wellness studio comprising a polygonal room comprising straight walls and containing:

a) a first enclosure comprising a first wall and a second wall,

said first wall having a height of about 9 feet or greater and having an interior surface that is substantially continuous and curved and comprises a first end and a second end;

said second wall having a height of about 9 feet or greater and being substantially straight, and comprising a third end joined to the first end of the first wall and a fourth end joined to the second end of the first wall to define a first interior space, and a mirrored interior surface extending from the third end to the fourth end thereof, said first enclosure comprising a doorway providing access from outside said first enclosure to the first interior space;

b) a second enclosure comprising a third wall and a fourth wall,

said third wall having a height of about 9 feet or greater and having an interior surface that is substantially continuous and curved and comprises a fifth end and a sixth end;

said fourth wall having a height of about 9 feet or greater and being substantially straight, and comprising a seventh end joined to the fifth end of the third wall and a eighth end joined to the sixth end of the third wall to define a second interior space, and a mirrored interior surface extending from the seventh end to the eighth end thereof, said second enclosure comprising a doorway providing access from outside said second enclosure to the second interior space;

the interior surfaces of the first wall and the third wall each comprising a projection surface extending from the first end to the second end of the first wall and from the fifth end to the sixth end of the third wall;

c) a hallway defined between the first enclosure and the second enclosure;

d) a first projector component adapted to display a visual image upon the curved projection surface of the first wall from the first end to the second end thereof, thereby creating a virtually seamless image projected completely around the curved projecting surface of the first wall; and

e) a second projector component structured to display a visual image upon the curved projection surface of the third wall from the fifth end to the sixth end thereof, thereby creating a virtually seamless single image projected completely around the curved projecting surface of the third wall; and

f) a client reception area located within said wellness studio and at least partially defined by outer surfaces of said first enclosure, said second enclosure and inside surfaces of said polygonal room;

said client reception area comprising client seating and merchandise selected from the group consisting of health drinks, books, candles, and incense, and;

wherein plan views of each of the first interior space and the second interior space each have a shape selected from the group consisting of semi-circular, semi-oval, semi-elliptical, semi-Cassini oval, and semi-pill-shaped, and the plan view shape of the first interior space is a mirror image of the plan view shape of the second interior space.

2. The wellness studio of claim 1 in which the first projector component and the second projector component are located in a common housing.

3. The wellness studio of claim 1 in which the hallway is defined between exterior surfaces of either

a) the substantially straight second wall of the first enclosure and the substantially straight fourth wall of the second enclosure, or

b) the substantially continuous and curved first wall of the first enclosure and the substantially continuous and curved third wall of the second enclosure.

4. The room of claim 1 in which at least one of the first projector component and the second projector component is mounted at an elevation above the interior walls of said first enclosure and said second enclosure.

5. The wellness studio of claim 1 in which both said first projector component and said second projector component are mounted at an elevation above the interior walls of said first enclosure and said second enclosure.

6. The wellness studio of claim 5 in which the first projector component and the second projector component are the same projector component.

7. The wellness studio of claim 1 wherein either

a) said first wall of first enclosure and said third wall of said second enclosure, or

b) said second wall of first enclosure and said fourth wall of said second enclosure each comprises a door defined therein leading from an interior space to a location exterior to either said first or second enclosure.

8. The wellness studio of claim 1 wherein the plan view of each of the first interior space and the second interior space is pill-shaped.

9. The wellness studio of claim 1 in which at least one of said first projector component and said second projector component is structured to store image files and display virtual images on a projection surface.