CREATING A LIGHTING EFFECT

• US 20120050687A1
• Filed: 12/24/2009
• Published: 03/01/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/24/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Musion IP Ltd. (Musion DAS Hologram Limited)
• Original Assignee: Musion IP Ltd. (Musion DAS Hologram Limited)
• Inventors: Hanna, Mark, Berry, Elizabeth
• Application Number:
  US13/142,176
• Publication Number:
  US 20120050687A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 353/10
• CPC Class Codes: A63J 5/00 Auxiliaries for producing special effects on stages, or in circuses or arenas
• CPC Class Codes: A63J 5/021 Mixing live action with images projected on translucent screens
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/1006 for splitting or combining different wavelengths G02B27/1086, G02B27/141 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/144 using partially transparent surfaces without spectral selectivity G02B27/147 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 30/34 Stereoscopes providing a stereoscopic pair of separated images corresponding to parallactically displaced views of the same object, e.g. 3D slide viewers
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 30/35 using reflective optical elements in the optical path between the images and the observer
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 15/06 Special arrangements of screening, diffusing, or reflecting devices, e.g. in studio
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/58 collapsible, e.g. foldable; of variable area
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/60 characterised by the nature of the surface
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/62 Translucent screens

Abstract

A method of creating a lighting effect using a reflective and semi-transparent foil suitable for use in creating a Pepper'"'"'s Ghost image, the method comprising: i) modifying the foil such that the foil is distorted to cause light beams to separate into beams of different colours through transmition and reflection of the light beam in at least one sheet of foil; and ii) illuminating the distorted at least one sheet of foil to create a lighting effect.

Claims

1. A method of creating a lighting effect using a reflective and semi-transparent foil suitable for use in creating a Pepper'"'"'s Ghost image, the method comprising:

i) modifying the foil such that the foil is distorted to cause light beams to separate into beams of different colours through transmition and reflection of the light beam in at least one sheet of foil; and

ii) illuminating the distorted at least one sheet of foil to create a lighting effect.

2. A modified foil for creating a lighting effect in accordance with step i) of claim 1.

3. A method of creating a lighting effect using a reflective and semi-transparent foil suitable for use in creating a Pepper'"'"'s Ghost image, the method comprising:

i) modifying the foil to provide a series of creases to form a corrugated shape in at least one sheet of foil; and

ii) illuminating the creased at least one sheet of foil to create a ripple effect.

4. A modified foil for creating a lighting effect in accordance with step i) of claim 3.

5. A method of creating a lighting effect using a reflective and semi-transparent foil suitable for use in creating a Pepper'"'"'s Ghost image, the method comprising:

i) modifying the foil to form a closed 3-dimensional shape from the at least one sheet of the foil; and

ii) illuminating the 3-dimensional shape to create a lighting effect.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the 3-dimensional shape is a ball.

7. A modified foil for creating a lighting effect in accordance with step i) of claim 5.

8. A reflective and semi-transparent foil suitable for use in creating a Pepper'"'"'s Ghost image, the foil comprising:

an active element which when activated by any one or more of a temperature, an electric current, an electric field, a chemical process, a particular wavelength of light, a sound wave and a magnetic field creates a change in the reflection and transmission of light of the at least one sheet of foil.

9. The foil according to claim 8, wherein the active element comprises any one of the following:

a UV activated die or paint applied to the foil; and

a layer of nano-particles applied to the foil comprising a phosphur based or a phosphur sensitive nano-particle.