3D image cinema system

• US 8,814,367 B2
• Filed: 12/30/2011
• Issued: 08/26/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hae-Yong Choi
• Original Assignee: Hae-Yong Choi
• Inventors: Choi, Hae-Yong
• Primary Examiner(s): Dowling, William C
• Application Number:
  US13/340,744
• Publication Number:
  US 20120188513A1
• Time in Patent Office: 970 Days
• Field of Search: 352/40, 352/69, 352/134, 52/6, 52/8, 52/9, 353/79, 353/94, 353/71, 353/82, 359/449
• US Class Current: 353/94
• CPC Class Codes: A63J 25/00 Equipment specially adapted for cinemas cinematographic projection means G03B
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 3/22 Theatres; Concert halls; Studios for broadcasting, cinematography, television or similar purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/28 Reflectors in projection beam in illumination beam G03B21/2066
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/54 Accessories
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 35/18 by simultaneous viewing
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 35/20 using two or more projectors
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 35/26 using polarised or coloured light separating different viewpoint images
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/337 using polarisation multiplexing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/363 using image projection screens volumetric display H04N13/388
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/3147 Multi-projection systems displays in general H04N9/12; video walls G06F3/1446, G09G2300/026

Abstract

A 3D image cinema system having at least one projection room for viewing 3D images or 2D images is divided into forward and rearward viewing directions for the projection of an image on a front screen and a rear screen which are provided in a front end and a rear end of the projection room, respectively. Further, a front direction chair and a rear direction chair having a different viewing direction are provided on a front step and a rear step between the projection room and the front and rear screens where the theater can be easily installed in a general building and the 3D and 2D image has as much as 1.5-2 times wider viewing as a prior image.

Claims

1. A 3-D image cinema system configured to be installable in a building having a ceiling height between 2-5 meters, said 3-D image cinema system comprising:

a projection room having a front portion and a rear portion, said projection room being configured to receive projection of frontward and rearward images from a projector;

a front screen positioned at the front portion of the projection room and a rear screen positioned at the rear portion of the projection room;

at least one frontward facing chair arranged to face the front screen and at least one rearward facing chair arranged to face the rear screen in opposing viewing directions, said frontward facing chair and rearward facing chair being arranged between the projector and front screen and rear screen, respectively; and

a 3D projection system comprising a first projector configured to project a left image of a 3-D image and a second projector configured to project a right image of the 3-D image provided inside the projection room, said first projector and second projector facing each other, and at least two semi-transparent mirrors and a two-sided surface reflection mirror provided between the first projector and the second projector,

each of said at least two semi-transparent mirrors arranged at an angle so that each semi-transparent mirror reflects 50% of light projected from the respective first and second projector in the frontward and rearward directions, respectively, and transmits 50% of the light through the semi-transparent mirror, and said two-sided surface reflection mirror being arranged at an angle so that the transmitted light through each semi-transparent mirror is reflected in the frontward and rearward directions so that the 3-D image is projectable in opposite directions towards the front screen and the rear screen simultaneously.

2. The 3-D image cinema system according to claim 1, further comprising a front direction step and a rear direction step between the projector and the front and rear screen, respectively, wherein said at least one frontward facing chair is provided on the front direction step and the at least one rearward facing chair is provided on the rear direction step in a stepping manner so that the at least one frontward facing chair and the at least one rearward facing chair are arranged symmetrically in the projection MOM.

3. The 3-D image cinema system of claim 1, further comprising a sound blocking plate provided in the projection room configured to separate the projection room so that the sound blocking plate is enabled to block sound from the front portion and the rear portion of the projection room.

4. The 3-D image cinema system of claim 1, wherein said frontward and rearward facing chairs comprise a table provided at a front surface of the chairs.

5. The 3-D image cinema system of claim 1, further comprising two sets of two polarization plates in front of the at least two semi-transparent mirrors and two-sided surface reflection mirror, wherein each set of two polarization plates are arranged in a way to polarize the images projected in the forward and rearward directions, respectively.