SOCIAL MEDIA LINKED LARGE FORMAT THEATER DESIGN

• US 20180155944A1
• Filed: 11/30/2015
• Published: 06/07/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation (Dolby Laboratories Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation (Dolby Laboratories Incorporated)
• Inventors: GORNY, Douglas J., OEHL, Wilhelm, VORON, Vincent, HERMAN, David, BURLOCK, Donald, SIJEN, Pascal, KUKSHTEL, Christopher Roy, CUSON, C. Matthew, ROBINSON, Charles Q.
• Granted Patent: US 10,907,371 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: E04F 19/02 Borders; Finishing strips, e.g. beadings; Light coves for protecting edges of plaster E04F13/06
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 3/00 Buildings or groups of buildings for public or similar purposes; Institutions, e.g. infirmaries or prisons
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 3/10 for meetings, entertainments, or sports
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 3/12 Tribunes, grandstands or terraces for spectators
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 3/22 Theatres; Concert halls; Studios for broadcasting, cinematography, television or similar purposes
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 3/30 Constructional features of auditoriums
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/56 Projection screens

Abstract

Theater designs including social media, and theater entrances configured to draw patrons into a main area of the theater including an entrance having a curved wall and curved walkway having a horizon drop-off for display of content related to a motion picture or other feature to be shown in the theater. The content may be interactive or otherwise linked to patrons passing a hallway including the curved wall. Spatialized sound corresponding to the video “moves” with objects in the video and with patrons as they traverse walkway.

Claims

1. A theater, comprising:

an auditorium having a screen, seating, and an entrance;

a corridor connecting said auditorium to said entrance;

wherein said corridor is curved whereby a patron entering the auditorium traverses a curved path from said entrance to said auditorium, and

wherein said corridor includes at least one smoothly curved wall and a similarly curved screen integrated with the smoothly curved wall.

2. The theater of claim 1, wherein said seating is stadium style seating, and said screen comprises a large format screen.

3. The theater of claim 1, wherein said curved wall is recessed and highlighted above and below the curved screen.

4. The theater of claim 1, wherein said corridor comprises first and second side walls, each of which are curved.

5. The theater of claim 3, wherein said smoothly curved wall includes accent lighting for highlighting said corridor.

6. The theater of claim 5, wherein said accent lighting comprises upper and lower accent lighting.

7. The theater of claim 1, wherein said auditorium further comprises first accent lighting for highlighting the interior of said auditorium.

8. The theater of claim 7, wherein said first accent lighting comprises upper and lower accent lighting.

9. The theater of claim 7, further comprising at least one walkway connecting said corridor to said auditorium, and wherein said auditorium comprises at least one side wall.

10. The theater of claim 9, wherein said first accent lighting comprises a substantially uniform and continuous highlighting of said walkway along said side wall to said screen.

11. The theater of claim 7, wherein said corridor includes a curved wall that includes second accent lighting for highlighting said corridor.

12. The theater of claim 11, wherein said first and second accent lighting substantially match each other.

13. The theater of claim 12, wherein said second accent lighting comprises upper and lower accent lighting.

14. The theater of claim 13, wherein said entrance includes third accent lighting that substantially matches said first and second accent lighting, whereby a patron entering the theater is guided by said highlighting of said first, second and third accent lighting from said entrance, through said corridor, to said auditorium, and said screen.

15. The theater of claim 1, wherein said auditorium includes a front area and a curved rear wall, and further comprising a walkway connecting said curved rear wall to said front area.

16. The theater of claim 15, wherein said auditorium, said corridor, and said walkway include accent lighting for highlighting the areas thereof.

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