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公开(公告)号：US12298537B2
公开(公告)日：2025-05-13
申请号：US17688169
申请日：2022-03-07
Applicant: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
Inventor： Quinn Y. Smithwick , Franklin T. Batino , Michael Ilardi
IPC: G02B30/52 , G02B27/14 , G02B30/56 , H04N13/337
Abstract: A display system for a providing a three-dimensional effect with controlled reflections is disclosed. In one embodiment, the display system includes a display; and a beam splitter positioned between the display and the viewing location. The beam splitter transmits or reflects light based on a characteristic of the light. A physical prop is positioned between the beam splitter and the viewing location. The display is oriented to emit light toward the beam splitter and displays an image at least partially viewable in the viewing location through the beam splitter, such that the image is substantially un-attenuated by the bean splitter. Light reflected from the physical prop and further reflected by the beam splitter toward the viewing location is at least partially viewable in the viewing location. The display system is suitable to enable a substantially full brightness of the image to be viewable in the viewing location.
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公开(公告)号：US20240411064A1
公开(公告)日：2024-12-12
申请号：US18206776
申请日：2023-06-07
Applicant: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
Inventor： Quinn Y. Smithwick , Lanny S. Smoot , Michael Ilardi
Abstract: A wide-angle, retroreflective real image display system that produces real images that can be viewed and interacted with by a group of people who can move about a space to view the real image. In one embodiment, the display system includes two or more stations each having their own retroreflector, beamsplitter, and displayed image or illuminated object. The stations, and their beamsplitters and retroreflectors are positioned adjacent at angular offsets or rotation angles, e.g., each neighboring or adjacent beamsplitter and retroreflector is rotated about an axis extending through the joining seam. The displayed images or illuminated objects are rotated at similar angles from each other to provide a retroreflective pyramid with co-located real images. In other embodiments, the display system uses a single retroreflector, beamsplitter, and displayed image or illuminated object but adds a pair of curved reflectors with matching shapes and sizes to provide an undistorted retroreflective real image.
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公开(公告)号：US20230280598A1
公开(公告)日：2023-09-07
申请号：US17688169
申请日：2022-03-07
Applicant: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
Inventor： Quinn Y. Smithwick , Franklin T. Batino , Michael Ilardi
IPC: G02B30/52 , G02B30/56 , G02B27/14 , H04N13/337
CPC classification number: G02B30/52 , G02B30/56 , G02B27/145 , H04N13/337 , G02B27/144
Abstract: A display system for a providing a three-dimensional effect with controlled reflections is disclosed. In one embodiment, the display system includes a display; and a beam splitter positioned between the display and the viewing location. The beam splitter transmits or reflects light based on a characteristic of the light. A physical prop is positioned between the beam splitter and the viewing location. The display is oriented to emit light toward the beam splitter and displays an image at least partially viewable in the viewing location through the beam splitter, such that the image is substantially un-attenuated by the bean splitter. Light reflected from the physical prop and further reflected by the beam splitter toward the viewing location is at least partially viewable in the viewing location. The display system is suitable to enable a substantially full brightness of the image to be viewable in the viewing location.
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公开(公告)号：US11072075B2
公开(公告)日：2021-07-27
申请号：US16662151
申请日：2019-10-24
Applicant: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
Inventor： David Loyal Christensen , Alexis P. Wieland , Lanny S. Smoot , Alfredo M. Ayala , Quinn Y. Smithwick , Kyna P. McIntosh , James R. Kennedy , Matthew K. Pan , Günter D. Niemeyer , Daniel De Jesus Campos Zamora , Sungjoon Choi
Abstract: A system for sensing and controlling eye contact for a robot. The system includes a robotic figure with a movable eye. The system includes a light source positioned in the robotic figure to output light through a light outlet of the eye. A light sensor is included that senses light striking surfaces in a physical space in which the robotic figure is positioned including the output light from the light source. The system includes an image processor processing output of the light sensor to identify a location of a target formed by the output light striking surfaces in the physical space and to identify a location of a face of a human. Further, the system includes a robot controller generating eye movement control signals based on the location of the target and the location of the face to position the eye to provide eye contact with the human observer.
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公开(公告)号：US10942360B2
公开(公告)日：2021-03-09
申请号：US16245723
申请日：2019-01-11
Applicant: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
Inventor： Mark A. Reichow , Thomas F. Laduke , Quinn Y. Smithwick
Abstract: Display systems for achieving collimated projection effects. For example, in a theatrical or concert installation, display systems can be used to project images of scenery that appear to be vast and at a great distant behind the viewing window. The system may include a flat panel display, a corrective mirror, and a concave mirror positioned for viewing by an observer. The corrective mirror pre-warps an image generated by the flat panel display and reflects the undistorted image onto the concave mirror such that the observer perceives the image generated by the flat panel display as being at a large distance. The corrective mirror does not distort with changes in viewpoint. In another implementation, the system may include a short throw projector generating an image, a free-form projection screen, and a concave mirror positioned for viewing by many observers through a viewing window.
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公开(公告)号：US09967554B2
公开(公告)日：2018-05-08
申请号：US15058303
申请日：2016-03-02
Applicant: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
Inventor： Hagen Friedrich Seifert , Quinn Y. Smithwick
IPC: H04N9/47 , H04N13/04 , G02B27/22 , G02F1/13 , G02F1/1335
CPC classification number: H04N13/315 , G02B27/2214 , G02F1/1323 , G02F1/13306 , G02F1/1347 , H04N13/32 , H04N13/368 , H04N13/383 , H04N13/398 , H04N2213/001
Abstract: An apparatus for displaying three dimensional (3D) images to a viewer without the need for 3D glasses. The apparatus includes a first display device horizontally oriented and operable to alternately display a first parallax and a second parallax barrier. The first parallax barrier corresponds with a first viewer location and the second parallax barrier corresponds with a second viewer location. The apparatus includes a second display device positioned parallel to the first display device and operable to alternately display first 3D content corresponding with the first viewer location and second 3D content corresponding with the second viewer location. The apparatus includes a directional backlight assembly alternately backlighting the second display device with first light directed toward the first viewer location and second light directed toward the second viewer location. The apparatus includes a controller synchronizing time multiplexed operations of the first and second display devices and the directional backlight assembly.
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公开(公告)号：US11592659B2
公开(公告)日：2023-02-28
申请号：US16588095
申请日：2019-09-30
Applicant: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
Inventor： Quinn Y. Smithwick
Abstract: A head for a walk-around costume is provided that is adapted for enhanced visibility. The costume head includes an outer shell defining an interior space for receiving a head of a human performer. The outer shell includes an aperture allowing incoming light from an exterior space to enter the interior space, and an eye location for the human performer is spaced apart from the aperture when the head is received in the interior space. To provide an enlarged field of view, the costume head includes an optical viewfinder assembly disposed within the interior space of the outer shell between the aperture and the eye location. The optical viewfinder assembly is adapted for receiving the incoming light and transmitting the incoming light to the eye location to move a viewpoint of the human performer to the aperture to provide a larger field of view of the exterior space.
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公开(公告)号：US10739613B2
公开(公告)日：2020-08-11
申请号：US15979616
申请日：2018-05-15
Applicant: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
Inventor： Daniel M. Joseph , Lanny S. Smoot , Quinn Y. Smithwick , Michael J. Ilardi
IPC: G02B30/56 , G02B3/00 , G02B27/14 , G02B5/124 , G02B5/30 , G02B3/14 , G02B30/00 , G02B30/40 , G02B27/28
Abstract: A display system is provided that combines the use of a display element with a beamsplitter and at least one retroreflector to provide an image (2D or 3D depending upon the output image from the display element) that appears to be floating in space some distance from the beamsplitter. For example, light that is bounced off/reflected and/or that is transmitted through the beamsplitter may be reflected from the reflective surface of the retroreflector toward the beamsplitter. The beamsplitter directs this light, through reflection or transmission, into a viewing space such that the 2D or 3D image can be viewed by a viewer as it appears to float a distance from the nearest surface of the beamsplitter and, typically, some distance above the ground/floor upon which viewers are walking. The floating image may be relatively bright so that it is viewable in low and brighter light conditions.
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公开(公告)号：US10154253B2
公开(公告)日：2018-12-11
申请号：US15250341
申请日：2016-08-29
Applicant: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. , CAMBRIDGE ENTERPRISE LIMITED
Inventor： Quinn Y. Smithwick , Xuefeng Li , Jiaqi Chu , Daping Chu
IPC: H04N13/32 , H04N13/351 , H04N13/398 , G02B27/22 , H04N13/363 , H04N13/307 , G02B27/28
Abstract: A multi-view display system or optical vortex 3D display in a multi-view or multilayer embodiment or configuration. The new 3D display system encodes and decodes images into independent modes of optical angular momentum (OAM). In some embodiments, the 3D display system uses pixel-based OAM. In such systems, transformation optics are used to sort the OAM modes. These transformation optics convert the OAMs' spiral wavefronts to linear gradient wavefronts, which are then deflected by a simple lens. The transformation optics, thus, are used in image-based (per pixel) decoding/sorting. In other embodiments, the 3D display system uses image-based OAM. In such systems, convolution of the OAM modes with the image is used rather than the direct modulation of the OAM mode and the image (as used in the prior system discussed above) for image-based encoding and decoding/sorting of images in different OAM modes.
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公开(公告)号：US10001654B2
公开(公告)日：2018-06-19
申请号：US15218377
申请日：2016-07-25
Applicant: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
Inventor： Daniel M. Joseph , Lanny S. Smoot , Quinn Y. Smithwick , Michael J. Ilardi
CPC classification number: G02B27/2292 , G02B3/0043 , G02B3/0056 , G02B3/14 , G02B5/124 , G02B5/3083 , G02B27/14 , G02B27/22 , G02B27/2221 , G02B27/283
Abstract: A display system is provided that combines the use of a display element with a beamsplitter and at least one retroreflector to provide an image (2D or 3D depending upon the output image from the display element) that appears to be floating in space some distance from the beamsplitter. For example, light that is bounced off/reflected and/or that is transmitted through the beamsplitter may be reflected from the reflective surface of the retroreflector toward the beamsplitter. The beamsplitter directs this light, through reflection or transmission, into a viewing space such that the 2D or 3D image can be viewed by a viewer as it appears to float a distance from the nearest surface of the beamsplitter and, typically, some distance above the ground/floor upon which viewers are walking. The floating image may be relatively bright so that it is viewable in low and brighter light conditions.
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