Display device for displaying a wide picture

• US 5,181,122 A
• Filed: 06/08/1992
• Issued: 01/19/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Company Limited (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Konami Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Ooishi, Toshimitsu
• Primary Examiner(s): Groody, James J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Murrell, Jeffrey S.
• Application Number:
  US07/895,207
• Time in Patent Office: 225 Days
• Field of Search: 358/237, 358/238, 358/231, 358/60, 358/236, 358/230, 358/56, 358/88, 358/87, 358/254, 353/31, 353/34, 353/37, 340/705, 340/720
• US Class Current: 348/779
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/25 Output arrangements for video game devices
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/90 Constructional details or arrangements of video game devices not provided for in groups A63F13/20 or A63F13/25, e.g. housing, wiring, connections or cabinets
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/30 characterized by output arrangements for receiving control signals generated by the game device
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 30/56 by projecting aerial or floating images
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3211 Display means
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 19/16 involving the use of mirrors
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 9/00 Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements in which the variable information is permanently attached to a movable support G09F11/00; abacus G06C1/00; slide-rules G06G1/00

Abstract

A display device for displaying a wide picture includes a main screen on which the wide picture is to be produced, one picture projector carrying a picture generation unit having a first screen facing in a first direction, and a first picture transmission for transmitting a picture produced on the first screen to the main screen, another picture projector carrying a picture generation unit having a second screen facing in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a second picture transmission for transmitting a picture produced on the second screen to the main screen, and the one picture projector and the another picture projector being alternately juxtaposed one after another. A continuous wide picture consisting of a picture on the first screen and a picture on the second screen is produced over the main screen.

Claims

1. A display device for displaying a wide picture comprising:

a) a main screen over which the wide picture is to be produced;

b) first picture projector means for producing a first picture, said first picture projector means including a picture generation unit having a first screen extending in a first plane and facing in a first direction;

c) second picture projector means for producing a second picture, said second picture projector means including a picture generation unit having a second screen extending in a second plane which is parallel to said first plane and facing in a second direction opposite to the first direction, the second plane being spaced from said first plane along said first and second directions;

d) picture transmission means for transmitting pictures produced on the first and second screens to the main screen, the picture transmission means being positioned between said first and second planes, said picture transmission means including;

i) first mirror means for;

(A) reflecting light from the first screen to the main screen, and

(B) transmitting light therethrough from the second screen and for reflecting said transmitted light that is reflected back to said first mirror means, to the main screen, said first mirror means being inclined with respect to the first direction, and

ii) second mirror means for reflecting light transmitted from said second screen through said first mirror means back to said first mirror means; and

e) the first picture projector means and the second picture projector means being arranged so that an image from said first picture projector means is displayed on said main screen in non-overlapping juxtaposition to an image from said second picture projector means.

2. A display device according to claim 1 wherein the first mirror means is inclined at 45 degrees to said first direction.

6. A display device according to claim 2 wherein said first mirror means is comprised of a single, integral mirror.

3. A display device for displaying a wide picture comprising:

a) a main screen over which the wide picture is to be produced;

b) first picture projector means for producing a first picture and for transmitting the first picture to said main screen, said first picture projector means including a picture generation unit having;

i) a first screen extending in a first plane and facing in a first direction, and

ii) first picture transmission means for transmitting a picture produced on the first screen to the main screen, the first picture transmission means including first mirror means inclined with respect to the first direction for reflecting light from the first screen to the main screen;

c) second picture projector means for producing a second picture and for transmitting the second picture to said main screen, said second picture projector means including a picture generation unit having;

i) a second screen extending in a second plane which is parallel to said first plane and facing in a second direction opposite to the first direction, the second plane being spaced from said first plane along said first and second directions, and

ii) second picture transmission means for transmitting a picture produced on the second screen to the main screen, the second picture transmission means including second mirror means inclined with respect to the second direction for reflecting light from the second screen to the main screen, with the direction of inclination of said second mirror means being at an opposite inclination to the inclination of said first mirror means; and

d) the first picture projector means and the second picture projector means being arranged so that an image from said first picture projector means is displayed on said main screen in non-overlapping juxtaposition to an image from said second picture projector means.

4. A display device according to claim 3 wherein the mirror means of the first picture transmission means and the mirror means of the second picture transmission means are full reflector mirrors.

5. A display device according to claim 3 wherein the mirror means of the first picture transmission means and the mirror means of the second picture transmission means are inclined at 45 degrees.