Aircraft Banner

• US 20150027010A1
• Filed: 01/04/2013
• Published: 01/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Publiavia Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Publiavia Ltd.
• Inventors: Mansfield, Wayne
• Application Number:
  US14/370,587
• Publication Number:
  US 20150027010A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 40/215
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 19/14 displaying different signs depending upon the view-point of the observer
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 21/12 the advertising matter being towed by the aircraft

Abstract

An aircraft banner comprises an image, with at least a section thereof being visually adaptive with respect to the location of an observer thereof. The banner presents a moving or changing image thereon in the eyes of the observer during use. The moving or changing image moves or changes as the aircraft banner moves relative to the observer.

Claims

1. An aircraft banner comprising an image, at least a section thereof being visually adaptive with respect to the location of an observer thereof, whereby the banner will present a moving or changing image thereon in the eyes of the observer during use, the moving or changing image moving or changing as the aircraft banner moves relative to the observer.

2. The aircraft banner of claim 1, wherein the aircraft banner is being towed behind an aircraft, such as an aeroplane.

3. The aircraft banner of claim 1, wherein the aircraft banner is being carried underneath an aircraft, such as a helicopter.

4. The aircraft banner of claim 1, wherein the aircraft banner is attached to the side or underside of an aircraft, such as an aeroplane or helicopter or microlite or airship or hot air balloon.

5. The aircraft banner of claim 1, wherein the section of the aircraft banner that is visually adaptive occupies less than 20% of the image.

6. The aircraft banner of claim 1, wherein there are two or more of the sections of the aircraft banner that are visually adaptive.

7. The aircraft banner of claim 6, wherein each section occupies less than 20% of the image.

8. The aircraft banner of claim 1, wherein the section of the aircraft banner that is visually adaptive occupies substantially the whole extent of the image.

9. The aircraft banner of claim 1, wherein the image comprises a printed image.

10. The aircraft banner of claim 1, wherein the section of the aircraft banner that is visually adaptive is contained within a rigid frame.

11. The aircraft banner of claim 1, wherein the section of the aircraft banner that is visually adaptive is on a rigid background.

12. The aircraft banner of claim 1, wherein the section of the aircraft banner that is visually adaptive is retained in a relatively taut or flat condition as it is towed or suspended by an aircraft using a leading-edge bar for holding the leading edge in a straight, flat plane, and either a wind resistive tail or a weighted free end.

13. The aircraft banner of claim 1, wherein the section of the aircraft banner that is visually adaptive is taped or stitched, or both, into the banner.

14. The aircraft banner of claim 1, wherein the section of the aircraft banner that is visually adaptive comprises a holographic image.

15. The aircraft banner of claim 1, wherein the section of the aircraft banner that is visually adaptive comprises a 3D printed image.

16. The aircraft banner of claim 1, wherein the section of the aircraft banner that is visually adaptive comprises a lenticular image.

17. The aircraft banner of claim 1, wherein the section of the aircraft banner that is visually adaptive comprises a lenticular image with more than two presentable images, each selectively viewable by an observer as the image is moved relative to the observer due to the change in the angle of viewing of the image by the observer.

18. A method of advertising comprising mounting an aerial banner on or relative to a flying object such as an aircraft, the aerial banner including at least a section thereof that is visually adaptive with respect to the location of an observer thereof, and flying the flying object with its areal banner past an observer, the aerial banner thereby presenting a moving or changing image thereon to the eyes of the observer as the aircraft banner moves relative to the observer.