METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTION AND DISPLAY OF SEQUENTIAL GRAPHIC ART

• US 20120202187A1
• Filed: 02/03/2011
• Published: 08/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/03/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Shadowbox Comics LLC
• Original Assignee: Shadowbox Comics LLC
• Inventors: Brinkerhoff, Spencer L. III
• Application Number:
  US13/020,552
• Publication Number:
  US 20120202187A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/428
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/02 with visual presentation of the material to be studied, e.g. using film strip

Abstract

A method for distribution and display of sequential graphic art creates a process for communicating a story through sequential images. Multiple channels of distribution may be used. Each channel may include multiplane graphical art (“MGA”). An MGA image is a compilation of a foreground layer, a background layer, and optionally one or more midground layers. The MGA image may be viewed on a mobile device with an accelerometer. As a user of the mobile device tilts the mobile device, the accelerometer registers the amount of the tilting of the mobile device. The layers of the MGA image are then transposed in an amount proportional to the angle of the tilt and the layer'"'"'s distance from a viewing plane. The varying degrees of each layer'"'"'s transposition gives the impression that the user'"'"'s perspective changes as the mobile device is tilted. Multiple MGA images may be combined to form an MGA book.

Claims

1. A method for telling a story through sequential images, the method comprising:

(A) providing a computing device, the computing device comprising

(i) at least one method of user input,

(ii) means for displaying digital images,

(iii) a processor for processing data received by the computing device, and

(iv) means for communication; and

(B) sending one or more images from a remote server to a viewer through one or more methods of communication, wherein at least one method of communication comprises;

(i) sending one or more digital images from a remote server to the computing device, wherein the digital images are comprised of two or more layered images, and

(ii) utilizing the processor to compile the two or more layered images into a single compiled image displayed on the means for displaying digital images, wherein the compiled image may be manipulated through use of the at least one method of user input to manifest a parallax effect between the two or more layered images.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the computing device is a mobile device and the means for communication is a means for wireless communication.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the at least one method of user input is an accelerometer.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the compiled image is manipulated through use of the accelerometer and the parallax effect is proportional to the degree that a user tilts the mobile device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein digital images are be combined to form a digital book, wherein the computing device displays one digital image and transitions to the next digital image, the transition comprising at least one of a fade, dissolve, wipe, or morph transition effect.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more methods of communication may include sending digital images, sending digital video, sending print media or providing games related to the story.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein a user may subscribe to one or more methods of communication.

8. A method for telling a story through sequential images, the method comprising:

(A) providing a mobile device, the mobile device comprising

(i) an accelerometer,

(ii) means for displaying digital images,

(iii) a processor for processing data received by the mobile device, and

(iv) means for wireless communication;

(B) sending one or more images from a remote server to a viewer through one or more user-subscribed methods of communication, wherein at least one method of communication comprises;

(i) sending a digital book from a remote server to the mobile device, wherein the digital book is comprised of one or more digital images and the digital images are comprised of two or more layered images, and transition effects are associated with the digital images, and

(ii) utilizing the processor to compile the two or more layered images into a single compiled image displayed on the means for displaying digital images, wherein the compiled image may be manipulated through use of the accelerometer to manifest a parallax effect between the two or more layered images, the parallax effect being proportional to the degree that a user tilts the mobile device.