Symmetrical color changer system
First Claim
1. A color changer system including a source of white light forming a light beam having a beam axis of propogation and a beam aperture through which the light beam passes, the beam aperture having a center coextensive with the axis of propagation, comprising, in combination,oppositely disposed color filter means positioned adjacent to the beam aperture,said oppositely disposed color filter means including first color filter means positioned adjacent to the beam aperture and second color filter means positioned adjacent to the beam aperture in substantially the same plane as that of said first color filter means, said first and second color filter means being simultaneously movable across the beam aperture orthogonal to the beam aperture and being adapted to meet in a mid position relative to the center of said beam aperture,said first and second color filter means further including a plurality of progressive variable filter regions ranging as percents of color filtering capacity relative to a particular color and ranging between 10% and 50% in 10% incremental ranges, each large enough in area to cover the beam aperture area, and the color densities of each filtering region differing from one another but being evenly distributed throughout each filtering region;
- wherein selected lightwaves are deleted in predetermined amounts in accordance with the positions of said first and second color filter means across said beam aperture so as to enhance said particular color contained in said light beam; and
said first and second color filter means being simultaneously movable into the light beam symmetrical to the beam axis of propagation so that distribution of color saturation of the light beam is symmetrical about the center of the beam aperture during movement of said first and second color filter means, whereby a generally even level of color saturation across the beam aperture is achieved during movement of said oppositely disposed color filter means.
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A color changer system including a pair of slidable color filter plates or a pair of rotatable color filter disks positioned on opposed side of a beam aperture through which a beam of white light passes. The pair of filter plates or filter disks are simultaneously movable or rotatable, respectively, across the beam aperture orthogonal to the beam axis so as to enhance a particular color. The movement of the filter plates or disks are movable into the beam symmetrical to the center of the beam aperture so that distribution of color saturation of the beam is symmetrical about the center of the beam aperture during movement of said first and second color filter means. Progressive variable filtering regions defining a plurality of color enhancing capacities either included diffused color filtering material or dichroic color filtering material. When the dichroic color filtering material is used, alternating clear and dichroic filtering strips are located in each filtering region. When the pair filter plates or filter disks overlap, the clear and dichroic filtering strips of each pair complement so that the lightwaves of the beam are filtered through only one of the pair of plates or strips.
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1. A color changer system including a source of white light forming a light beam having a beam axis of propogation and a beam aperture through which the light beam passes, the beam aperture having a center coextensive with the axis of propagation, comprising, in combination,
oppositely disposed color filter means positioned adjacent to the beam aperture, said oppositely disposed color filter means including first color filter means positioned adjacent to the beam aperture and second color filter means positioned adjacent to the beam aperture in substantially the same plane as that of said first color filter means, said first and second color filter means being simultaneously movable across the beam aperture orthogonal to the beam aperture and being adapted to meet in a mid position relative to the center of said beam aperture, said first and second color filter means further including a plurality of progressive variable filter regions ranging as percents of color filtering capacity relative to a particular color and ranging between 10% and 50% in 10% incremental ranges, each large enough in area to cover the beam aperture area, and the color densities of each filtering region differing from one another but being evenly distributed throughout each filtering region; wherein selected lightwaves are deleted in predetermined amounts in accordance with the positions of said first and second color filter means across said beam aperture so as to enhance said particular color contained in said light beam; and
said first and second color filter means being simultaneously movable into the light beam symmetrical to the beam axis of propagation so that distribution of color saturation of the light beam is symmetrical about the center of the beam aperture during movement of said first and second color filter means, whereby a generally even level of color saturation across the beam aperture is achieved during movement of said oppositely disposed color filter means.- View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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