Dummy magnifying display apparatus

• US 6,232,933 B1
• Filed: 09/17/1998
• Issued: 05/15/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fourie Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Fourie Incorporated
• Inventors: Nishida, Shinsuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Hjerpe, Richard
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, KIMNHUNG T
• Application Number:
  US09/154,144
• Time in Patent Office: 971 Days
• Field of Search: 345/1, 345/383, 345/345, 343/717, 343/707
• US Class Current: 345/1.3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1446 display composed of modules, e.g. video walls
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/32 semiconductive, e.g. using light-emitting diodes [LED]

Abstract

A dummy magnifying display apparatus, in which a magnified screen comprises a plane section and a slant section. The plane section comprises a screen display section located on a flat surface of a wall or the like. The slant section is provided at an angle between the wall and a ceiling and also located so that user U'"'"'s eyes and a screen form a substantially right angle. An image that the user could see on the dummy screen is displayed on the slant section. When an image of a smokestack is displayed, for example, a lower half section of the smokestack appears on the plane section and an upper half section thereof appears on the slant section. In this case, the smokestack displayed on the slant section appears by being compressed in the longitudinal direction thereof. With those steps, it actually looks from the position of the user as if the upper half section of the smokestack is displayed on the dummy screen. As a result, a screen larger than the actual screen can be obtained.

Claims

1. A dummy magnifying image display apparatus comprising:

a first image display with display elements arranged in a matrix to form a part of a screen, said first image display being viewable by an observer;

a second image display with display elements arranged in a matrix and connected to said first image display at an angle, said second image display being viewable by the observer and forming a part of the screen; and

a controller for making said first and second image displays display an image on a part or whole of the screen by repeatedly dividing the screen in the first image display, making the second image display provide a dummy display section obtained by extending the first image display and displaying an image to be displayed on said second image display so that it appears to be displayed on said dummy display section, repeatedly dividing said screen taking into consideration a positional relation between the first image display and the second image display, setting an address to each of the divided unit areas each time when the screen is divided, specifying the address, and giving display data to be displayed with a display element belonging to said specified divided unit area thereto.

2. A dummy magnifying display apparatus according to claim 1;

further comprising at least one of an upper section, a lower section, or a side face section, and wherein said second image display is connected to said upper section, lower section, or side face section at a predetermined angle to said first image display so that the second image display is faced to a user.

3. A dummy magnifying display apparatus according to claim 1;

wherein said first image display is provided on a wall surface of a room; and

said second image display is connected to said first image display and provided on a ceiling, a floor, or a wall surface next to said wall surface of the room, so that forms of said divided unit areas are not identical to each other in said connected direction.

4. A dummy magnifying display apparatus according to claim 1;

further comprising at least one of an upper section, a lower section, or a side face section extended from said first image display, and further comprising a plurality of said second image displays, each connected to at least one of said upper section, lower section or side face section so that each said second display is at a predetermined angle to said at least one section, forming a blind like arrangement of second displays that are faced to users.

6. A dummy magnifying display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said second image display comprises a curved surface and is connected to an upper section, a lower section, or a side face section of said first image display.

5. A dummy magnifying image display apparatus comprising:

a main image display with display elements arranged in a matrix to form a screen and located at the front part inside a hall;

a seat image display with display elements arranged in a matrix and being provided on each rear surface of seats each facing the front part in the hall; and

a controller for making said main image display an image and each of said seat image displays display a part of said image, the image on a part or whole screen thereof being formed by repeatedly dividing said screen in said main image display, displaying a part of image to be displayed on said main image display on each of said seat image displays and repeatedly dividing said screen taking into consideration a positional relation between the main image display and each of the seat image displays, setting an address to each of the divided unit areas each time when the screen is divided, specifying the address, and giving display data to be displayed with a display element belonging to said specified divided unit area thereto.