Spherical Display and Control Device
First Claim
1. A spherical display and control device comprising:
- a transparent flexible outer shell containing transparent internal layers for surface touch-screen sensing;
a central assembly that mechanically supports said outer shell in a spherical configuration;
said central assembly supporting electrical components that provide motion and rotation sensors suitable for control and data input purposes;
said central assembly containing one or more electrical components for acting to provide one or more of battery power, display and control circuitry, connectivity, data storage and sound input and output; and
at least one display electrically connected to said central assembly, the display being arranged as at least one of a flat panel and a flexible thin film display, the display being supported by least one of the central assembly and the outer shell.
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Abstract
A spherical display and control device, that is preferably collapsible between a spherical configuration and a collapsed generally cylindrical ellipsoid configuration, comprising a flexible transparent spherical surface sprung attached to a central hinged modular cube assembly that contains digital displays on outward faces, and circuitry, battery units and electronic modules on inward surfaces, where said sphere surface contains surface position sensing layers and said central cube contains gyroscopic and inertial sensing devices to provide spherical rotation, and physical displacement data for three dimensional control applications, where said displays preferably have curved polarizer lenses such that the overall device appears as a spherical display or are flat to form an overall Cuboid display or are combined with a flexible spherical display surfaces. The overall device being mechanically biased such that it is Bi-stable between the spherical and collapsed configuration via the action of pulling open and rotating the central cube halves.
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38 Claims
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1. A spherical display and control device comprising:
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a transparent flexible outer shell containing transparent internal layers for surface touch-screen sensing;
a central assembly that mechanically supports said outer shell in a spherical configuration;
said central assembly supporting electrical components that provide motion and rotation sensors suitable for control and data input purposes;
said central assembly containing one or more electrical components for acting to provide one or more of battery power, display and control circuitry, connectivity, data storage and sound input and output; and
at least one display electrically connected to said central assembly, the display being arranged as at least one of a flat panel and a flexible thin film display, the display being supported by least one of the central assembly and the outer shell. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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37. A spherical display and control device comprising:
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a transparent flexible generally spherical outer shell containing largely transparent internal layers used for surface touch-screen sensing;
a modular central assembly that mechanically supports said outer shell in a spherical configuration and having a plurality of faces in a polyhedral arrangement that are mechanically and electrically connected;
said central assembly supporting electrical components that provide gyroscopic and acceleration sensors suitable for control and data input purposes;
said central assembly containing a plurality of electrical components that can e act to provide battery power, display and control circuitry, connectivity, data storage and sound input and output; and
a plurality of thin displays electrically connected to said plurality of faces forming the central assembly arranged as flat panels supported by said faces or as a flexible thin-film displays attached to the sphere shell.
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38. A collapsible spherical display and control device that is collapsible between a spherical configuration and a collapsed generally cylindrical ellipsoid configuration comprising:
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a transparent flexible generally spherical outer shell containing largely transparent internal layers used for surface touch-screen sensing and formed from two interlocking curved shells;
a modular central assembly that mechanically supports said outer shell in a spherical configuration and having a plurality of faces in a cube arrangement that are mechanically and electrically connected;
said central assembly supporting electrical components that provide gyroscopic and acceleration sensors suitable for control and data input purposes;
said central assembly containing a plurality of electrical components that can act to provide battery power, display and control circuitry, connectivity, data storage and sound input and output;
a plurality of thin displays electrically connected to said plurality of faces forming the central assembly arranged as flat panels supported by said faces or as a flexible thin-film displays attached to the sphere shell; and
where said central cube assembly has a sliding central joining and rotary hinge mechanism and shell support mechanism that helps control the mechanical collapse action of the overall device.
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