摘要:
Media content, based on a predetermined set of constraints, from a content provider is delivered to a local cache of a user device before viewing the media. A client asset manager process resides in the user device, an asset list at the content provider site, and the media assets are located at a remote site.
摘要:
A black-light display creates dynamic and animated imagery by employing a UV laser system (14, 16, 18) configured to scan a luminescent material (12) to produce a UV-excited static or dynamic image.
摘要:
Catadioptric area-of-interest display projectors produce displays having resolution of substantially less than 10 arc minutes per line over a wide field of view. Such projectors include an external entrance pupil for receiving images of substantially collimated light, and optics for conveying such light onto and through an opening in the surface of an aspheric mirror, and then through an opening in a spherical mirror so that light emerging from the opening in the spherical mirror is displayed on a curved screen surface with such high resolution.A projector system includes this projector and a mirror for steering collimated light from the entrance pupil of the projector into the projector optics. This system, when placed in a flight simulator at the periphery of a flight simulator dome for projection of such light images onto the inner curved surface of the dome, provides high resolution images to viewers located at the center of the dome.
摘要:
A system and a method for the transmission and reception of digital data wirelessly using acoustic tones comprises a device having an encoder, a modulator system, a demodulator system, and a decoder. The modulator system uses dual tone multiple frequency (DTMF) tones that are amplitude modulated. The received signal is demodulated and detected by Fourier analysis. An expanded Hamming code based decoder is used for correcting errors occurring during transmission.
摘要:
An improved computer graphic work station is disclosed of the type that includes a digitizer for allowing an artist or other user to input a drawing into a computer, and an imaging device to produce an image of the drawing as it is being drawn. A beam splitter reflects at least a portion of the produced image to the eye of the user. The position and orientation of the beam splitter may be varied by a user relative to the imaging device in order to allow the user to align the workstation by causing the reflected image to appear, in the user's eye, to be substantially coincident with the drawing. Once aligned, the user may adjust the position and orientation of the digitizing surface without upsetting the alignment.
摘要:
Media content, based on a predetermined set of constraints, from a content provider is delivered to a local cache of a user device before viewing the media. A client asset manager process resides in the user device, an asset list at the content provider site, and the media assets are located at a remote site.
摘要:
An optical virtual touch pad system wherein reflective optics are used to superimpose a virtual image of a television screen display onto a touch-sensitive digitizing surface being operatively contacted by a user-controlled contact member. Alternatively, the system uses reflective optics to superimpose an uninverted virtual image of the digitizing surface and the contact member operating thereon onto the surface of the display. The system thereby, for example, can be used as a user interface to control interactive content on a home television.
摘要:
A special effect system and method includes an image panel having a surface coated with phosphor particles and a video screen that projects a transmitted predetermined display. The phosphor coated surface of the image panel is placed in close proximity to the video screen. The phosphor particles that overlap and are thus exposed to the predetermined display are excited by the wavelength emissions of the display and undergo phosphorescence in a wavelength range of human-visible light. Thus, when the panel is removed from the screen, a glow in the dark, "secret" message or image, special effect is revealed.
摘要:
Methods and systems are presented in which at least one geometric distortion function is separately determined for application to a particular primary color component of a color video display to cause a geometric distortion that compensates for lateral chromatic aberration in an optical system used to view the display.
摘要:
Selective light-transmitting filters for use with catadioptic area-of-interest display projectors and projection system provide complementary filters for two or more persons. One of the complementary filters permits all radiance at one predetermined, desired wavelength to be transmitted while rejecting or absorbing all others. The complementary filter for a second viewer transmits substantially all radiance at a second predetermined desired wavelength and absorbs or reflects all others, thus permitting each viewer to see only predetermined, desired displays or parts of a display that are projected simultaneously within the system.