ADDITIONAL EFFECT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-PROJECTION

• US 20140354954A1
• Filed: 10/25/2013
• Published: 12/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CJ 4dplex Company Limited (CJ CGV Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: CJ CGV Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Hwan Chul, Kang, Su Ryeon
• Granted Patent: US 9,442,361 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 352/10
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 1/12 Theatre, auditorium, or similar chairs seats detachably mounted on stadium benches A47C1/16
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 3/18 Chairs or stools with rotatable seat adjustable in height by rotation A47C3/24
• CPC Class Codes: A63J 2005/002 moving the spectator's body
• CPC Class Codes: A63J 25/00 Equipment specially adapted for cinemas cinematographic projection means G03B
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 3/22 Theatres; Concert halls; Studios for broadcasting, cinematography, television or similar purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 30/50 the image being built up from image elements distributed over a 3D volume, e.g. voxels
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/003 Cine-projectors
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/14 Details
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/16 Cooling; Preventing overheating
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/2053 Intensity control of illuminating light controlled by video signal processing H04N5/74 or H04N9/31
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/206 Control of light source other than position or intensity
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/26 Projecting separately subsidiary matter simultaneously with main image
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/56 Projection screens
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/60 characterised by the nature of the surface
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/608 Fluid screens
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 29/00 Combinations of cameras, projectors or photographic printing apparatus with non-photographic non-optical apparatus, e.g. clocks or weapons; Cameras having the shape of other objects combinations with flash apparatus G03B15/03
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 31/00 Associated working of cameras or projectors with sound-recording or sound-reproducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 37/04 with cameras or projectors providing touching or overlapping fields of view
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 41/00 Special techniques not covered by groups G03B31/00 - G03B39/00; Apparatus therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4122 additional display device, e.g. video projector digital output for controlling a plurality of local displays G06F3/1423
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 : for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 : End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/3147 : Multi-projection systems displays in general H04N9/12; video walls G06F3/1446, G09G2300/026
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/3182 : Colour adjustment, e.g. white balance, shading or gamut white balance per se H04N9/73; control of amplitude of colour signals H04N9/68; colour control circuits for displays in general G09G5/02, G09G3/2003, G09G3/3607
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/3185 : Geometric adjustment, e.g. keystone or convergence optical or mechanical adjustment of convergence H04N9/317; using scanning means H04N3/22; optical or mechanical adjustments of projectors not peculiar to the presence of an electronic spatial light modulator G03B21/14
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/3194 : including sensor feedback

Abstract

The present invention provides an additional effect system and method, the additional effect system including: a plurality of projection surfaces installed in a single theater; and an additional effect device for implementing an additional effect other than images projected on the plurality of projection surfaces, wherein the additional effect device provides the additional effect depending the images projected on the plurality of projection surfaces.

Claims

1. An additional effect system comprising:

a plurality of projection surfaces installed in a single theater; and

an additional effect device for implementing an additional effect other than images projected on the plurality of projection surfaces,

wherein the additional effect device provides the additional effect depending the images projected on the plurality of projection surfaces.

2. The additional effect system of claim 1, wherein the additional effect device configures the direction of the additional effect differently depending on the images projected on the plurality of projection surfaces.

3. The additional effect system of claim 2, wherein when an object in the image moves between the projection surfaces, the additional effect device changes the direction of the additional effect.

4. The additional effect system of claim 2, wherein when an environment in the image relatively changes between the projection surfaces, the additional effect device changes the configuration of the direction of the additional effect.

5. The additional effect system of claim 1, wherein when a specific event in the image occurs only on a specific projection surface among the plurality of projection surfaces, the additional effect device implements the additional effect only in a direction that starts from the corresponding projection surface.

6. The additional effect system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of projection surfaces reproduce synchronized images.

7. The additional effect system of claim 1, wherein the additional effect system comprises two or more additional effect devices, and wherein the two or more additional effect devices are selectively operated to change the direction of the additional effect.

8. The additional effect system of claim 7, further comprising an additional effect management device which controls the two or more additional effect devices either simultaneously or individually.

9. The additional effect system of claim 8, wherein the additional effect management device transmits a control signal to each additional effect device, and

wherein the control signal includes time information and operation information.

10. The additional effect system of claim 9, wherein each additional effect device is synchronized with other additional effect devices and the images, projected on the plurality of projection surfaces, based on the time information.

11. The additional effect system of claim 1, wherein the additional effect includes sound, wind, smell, fog, temperature change, laser, light, water jet, vibration, or bubbles.

12. The additional effect system of claim 11, wherein the additional effect is sound and the additional effect device comprises two more speakers, and

wherein the two or more speakers are distributed in the single theater.

13. The additional effect system of claim 12, wherein when an object in the image moves between the projection surfaces, the addition effect system changes the output direction of sound associated with the corresponding object through the two or more speakers.

14. The additional effect system of claim 12, wherein when an environment in the image relatively changes between the projection surfaces, the additional effect system changes the output direction of sound associated with the corresponding environment through the two or more speakers.

15. The additional effect system of claim 12, wherein when a specific event in the image occurs only on a specific projection surface among the plurality of projection surfaces, the additional effect system outputs the sound associated with the event only from a speaker installed in the direction of the specific projection surface.

16. The additional effect system of claim 11, wherein the additional effect is wind and the additional effect device comprises two more air blowers, and

wherein the two or more air blowers are distributed in the single theater.

17. The additional effect system of claim 16, wherein when an object in the image moves between the projection surfaces, the additional effect system changes the direction of the wind through the two or more air blowers.

18. The additional effect system of claim 16, wherein when an environment in the image relatively changes between the projection surfaces, the additional effect system changes the direction of the wind through the two or more air blowers.

19. The additional effect system of claim 11, wherein the additional effect is vibration and the additional effect device comprises two more vibration devices, and

wherein the two or more vibration devices are distributed on the floor of the theater.

20. The additional effect system of claim 19, wherein the two or more vibration devices implement the directionality of a vibration effect by sequential operation.

21. The additional effect system of claim 19, wherein when an object in the image moves between the projection surfaces, the additional effect system changes the direction of the vibration through the two or vibration devices.

22. An additional effect method comprising the steps of:

(a) allowing multi-projection images to be projected on a plurality of projection surfaces installed in a single theater and allowing additional effect other than the images to be implemented;

(b) allowing the images projected on the plurality of projection surfaces to change; and

(c) allowing the additional effect to be provided as the images projected on the plurality of projection surfaces change.

23. A recording medium readable by an electronic device and writing, in the form of a program, an additional effect method comprising the steps of:

(a) allowing multi-projection images to be projected on a plurality of projection surfaces installed in a single theater and allowing an additional effect other than the images to be implemented;

(b) allowing the images projected on the plurality of projection surfaces to change; and

(c) allowing the additional effect to be provided as the images projected on the plurality of projection surfaces change.