Message screen

• US 4,734,037 A
• Filed: 02/21/1986
• Issued: 03/29/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Double Vision Publishing Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Double Vision Publishing Incorporated
• Inventors: McClure, J. Patrick
• Primary Examiner(s): Grieb, William H.
• Application Number:
  US06/832,464
• Time in Patent Office: 767 Days
• Field of Search: 434/236, 434/307, 40/427
• US Class Current: 434/236
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2021/0011 in a subliminal way, i.e. below the threshold of sensation
• CPC Class Codes: B44F 1/10 Changing, amusing, or secret pictures
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/00 Teaching not covered by other main groups of this subclass teaching or practice apparatus for gun-aiming or gun-laying F41G3/26

Abstract

A transparent sheet is disclosed having a message thereon. The sheet has a first side adapted to be attached facing a plate which is normally viewed by a viewer and a second side facing the viewer. The message is arranged to be readably intelligible from the second side but is not liminally visible to the viewer when viewed from a normal viewing distance from the second side under normal viewing conditions. The message has a subliminal effect upon the viewer when viewed from the normal viewing distance from the second side under normal viewing conditions. A viewer can electively subject him or herself to subliminal messages while viewing television at leisure.

Claims

1. An article of manufacture, comprising:

a transparent sheet having a message thereon, said sheet having a first side adapted to be attached facing a plate which is normally viewed by a viewer and a second side facing said viewer, said message being arranged to be readably intelligible from said second side, said message being of a construction sufficient so that it is not liminally visible to said viewer when viewed from a normal viewing distance from said second side under normal viewing conditions but being of a construction sufficient to have a subliminal effect upon said viewer when viewed from said normal viewing distance from said second side under said normal viewing conditions.

2. An article of manufacture as set forth in claim 1, wherein said plate comprises a screen of a cathode ray tube.

3. An article of manufacture as set forth in claim 1, wherein said plate comprises a screen of a televison set.

4. An article of manufacture as set forth in claim 3, wherein said first side of said sheet adheres to said screen.

5. An article of manufacture as set forth in claim 1, wherein said message is of a construction such that it can be liminally viewed when illuminated by an ultraviolet light source.

6. A television set having a television screen, a transparent sheet having a message thereon, said sheet having a first side attached to said television screen, said sheet having a second side facing away from said television screen and towards a position occupied by a viewer during use of said set, said message being arranged to be readably intelligible from said second side, said message being of a construction sufficient to not be liminally visible to said viewer when viewed from a normal viewing distance from said second side under normal viewing conditions but being of a construction sufficient to have a subliminal effect upon said viewer when viewed from said normal viewing distance from said second side under said normal viewing conditions.

7. A television set as set forth in claim 6, wherein said message is of a construction such that it can be liminally viewed when illuminated by an ultraviolet light source.

8. A method of subliminally delivering a message to a viewer, comprising:

attaching a first side of a transparent sheet, said sheet having a first side adapted to be attached facing a plate which is normally viewed by said viewer, with said first side facing said plate, said sheet having a second side facing said viewer, said sheet bearing said message, said message being arranged to be readably intelligible from said second side, said message being of a construction sufficient to not be liminally visible to said viewer when viewed from a normal viewing distance from said second side under normal viewing conditions but being of a constructtion sufficient to have a subliminal effect upon said viewer when viewed from said normal viewing distance from said second side under said normal viewing conditions; and

providing an image on said plate which is visible to the viewer through said sheet.

9. A method as set forth in claim 8, wherein said plate is a television screen and said image is a television image.