JP5037716B1 - Ferris wheel lighting equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to display a still image or a moving image on one surface of a rotating wheel of a ferris wheel and maintain a constant posture even when the rotating wheel rotates, so that even a complicated display is easy to see. Easy image display.
In a ferris wheel in which a large number of gondolas 4 are arranged on the outer periphery of a rotating wheel 2 that is rotationally driven about a horizontal central axis 3 supported by a support leg 1, at least one surface of the rotating wheel 2 is provided. A plurality of LED elements provided on the radial frame 5 constituting the slewing motor, a rotation detector for detecting the rotation of the rotating wheel, and a control for displaying a still image or a moving image by dimming control of each of these LED elements. Each time the rotation detector detects a rotation of the rotating wheel at a certain angle, the control means displays the still image or moving image in the direction opposite to the rotation of the rotating wheel 2 around the rotating shaft 3. The display is shifted by a certain angle.
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Description

The present invention relates to an electrical decoration device provided on one or both sides of a ferris wheel installed in an amusement park, an exhibition hall, or the like.

Conventionally, a ferris wheel supports a rotating wheel on an upper part of a support leg, and a large number of gondola on which passengers ride are provided along the circumferential edge of the rotating wheel. The rotating wheel is rotated by an appropriate driving source. As each gondola moves in a ring and rises to a height of several tens of meters above the ground, passengers in the gondola enjoy the surrounding view.

Recently, there are many cases where the activities of the public are at night and the Ferris wheel is also operating at night. Therefore, information by lighting and light has been displayed on the side of the Ferris wheel at night. As a result, the illumination and information display are reflected in the night sky so that the illumination and information display can be enjoyed from a distance. However, these electrical decorations and information displays are simply various patterns and paintings, or represent numbers and characters, and are currently simple displays.

Specifically, for example, in Patent Document 1, a color projector that projects light toward an outer diameter or an inner diameter direction along a circumferential direction of a rotating wheel of a ferris wheel is disposed, and the rotating wheel The frame can be illuminated with light projected from the color projector, and a weather forecast can be displayed with the color of the light, and light is emitted in a radial direction on the surface of the frame before and after the rotating wheel. A tube can be attached and the lighting length of the arc tube can be increased or decreased to display the temperature, and the arc tube moves sequentially from the inner diameter side to the outer diameter side so as to form a firework-like pattern However, it can be lit while being controlled, and the firework-like pattern display, the weather forecast, and the temperature can be switched at predetermined time intervals.

Moreover, the thing of the patent document 2 attaches a light-emitting tube to the radial direction ridge and the annular ridge of at least one surface of the frame body before and after the rotating wheel of the ferris wheel, and causes the light-emitting tube to emit light. The upper half of the surface is provided with a countdown display unit that displays the remaining time until the event along the circumferential direction, and the countdown display unit is fixed at a substantially fixed position, and the arc tube is provided below the countdown display unit. The event display unit displays the event name in the circumferential direction by emitting light, and the event display unit rotates and moves sequentially from the inner diameter side to the outer diameter side so that the arc tube forms a firework-like pattern. It is controlled so that it is turned on while moving, and a firework-like pattern display, the countdown display section, and the event display section are switched at predetermined time intervals.

Patent Document 3 discloses a ferris wheel in which a plurality of gondolas are provided on a rotating wheel that is driven to rotate about a horizontal rotating shaft, and a surface light emitter is attached to the wheel. It may also be attached to a support leg that supports the rotating wheel. Further, the surface light emitter is preferably composed of a light emitting diode, and in particular, a plurality of LED lamps are held and fixed along a longitudinal direction of a long holding frame, and the holding frames are arranged in parallel at intervals. It is configured as follows.

Japanese Patent No. 3410316 Japanese Patent No. 3436468 JP 2006-68309 A

In the case of the above-mentioned Patent Document 1, a person who sees this can understand the fireworks pattern, but the display of the weather forecast is displayed by a change in the color of light by the color projector, and the temperature is the lighting length of the arc tube. Since the display is displayed with the size increased or decreased, those who do not understand these rules can see only light or a light pattern, and have very poor expressive power. In addition, since the display rotates with the rotation of the wheel of the ferris wheel, it cannot be complicatedly expressed.

Moreover, although the thing of the said cited reference 2 displays a countdown display, an event display, and a firework pattern display, an event display and a firework pattern display rotate with rotation of a ferris wheel. It is difficult to see if it is tilted or displayed upside down. Further, the countdown display is described as being displayed at a substantially fixed position, but there is no description of how the countdown display is specifically displayed at the fixed position.

In addition, in the above-mentioned Patent Document 3, a surface light emitter composed of a large number of light emitting diodes may be attached to a rotating wheel or attached to a support leg of the rotating wheel. The surface light emitter rotates with the rotation of the rotating wheel, which is difficult for the viewer to see and cannot be displayed in a complicated manner.

Therefore, in order to improve these conventional techniques, the present invention arranges a large number of LED elements along a frame constituting one surface of the rotating wheel, and a number of LED elements disposed on one surface of these rotating wheels. A dimming control displays a still image or a moving image, and even if these displays rotate a rotating wheel, maintaining a constant posture makes it easy to see even a complicated display and a clear image that is easy to understand It is an object of the present invention to provide a ferris wheel lighting device capable of providing a display.

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a ferris wheel in which a large number of gondola are arranged on the outer periphery of a rotating wheel that is driven to rotate about a horizontal central axis supported by a support leg, and at least one surface of the rotating wheel is configured. A plurality of LED elements, a rotation detector that detects rotation of the rotating wheel, and a control unit that displays a still image or a moving image by dimming control of each of these LED elements, The dimming control wirelessly outputs identification information and time information associated with video information related to a still image or a moving image from an information processing device provided outside the ferris wheel, and the control means includes the identification information and time information. Upon receiving the in the rotation wheel, image information relating from the Ferris wheel scheduler information processing device storing the same image information as the image information stored in the information processing device provided external to said identification information Is called at the time of the time information, and each time the rotation detector detects a rotation of the rotating wheel at a certain angle, the image information called by the control means is the rotation of the rotating wheel around the rotation axis. A constant posture is maintained with respect to the top or bottom of the coordinate axis that is shifted by a certain angle in the opposite direction and displayed on each LED element, and the control means displays the silhouette of the displayed still image or moving image The dimming of the LED element corresponding to the part is controlled to be the same color as the background color of the rotating wheel that can be seen through the frame of the rotating wheel, while other parts of the displayed still image or moving image are other than the background color. It was set as the ferris wheel electrical decoration apparatus which made the said each LED element the structure which can light-control so that it might become the color of this.

Further, the invention according to claim 2 is the invention according to claim 1, wherein the information processing means can display images on opposite sides of the rotating shaft in opposite directions or only on one side of the rotating shaft. There was a ferris wheel lighting device.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the first or second aspect of the present invention, the rotation detector is provided on the rotating wheel, and detects the rotation angle of the rotating wheel with respect to a predetermined reference position, thereby making the rotating wheel constant. It was set as the ferris wheel electrical decoration apparatus which comprised the structure which detects rotation of an angle.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, a large number of LED elements are provided on the frame constituting one surface of the rotating wheel of the ferris wheel, and still images and moving images are displayed by controlling the dimming of these large number of LED elements. In addition, a complicated or detailed image can be displayed large on one surface of the wheel of the ferris wheel. Moreover, these still images and moving image displays can always maintain a fixed posture with respect to the top and bottom by correcting the display position with respect to the rotation even if the rotating wheel rotates. This correction is performed at every fixed angle of rotation of the rotating wheel, and the image is actually returned. However, when the certain angle is a small angle, for example, 0.5 degree, it appears to the human eye as if it is still with an illusion. Therefore, it is very easy for the person who appreciates the display of the Ferris wheel from the outside, and it can be moved.

In addition, since the still image and the moving image are pictures, characters, symbols, patterns, and combinations thereof, complicated display and narrative display can be performed, and display and information worthy of viewing can be given. In addition, since the rotating wheel of the Ferris wheel rotates, time information and the like must be transmitted to the rotating wheel, but since it is transmitted wirelessly between the ground and the rotating wheel, a complicated configuration is not necessary and a simple configuration Can be realized.

Further, according to the invention of claim 2 , the information processing means can display images in opposite directions on both sides of the rotating shaft, or can display only on one side of the rotating shaft, depending on the situation. It is convenient because it can be selected.

According to the invention of claim 3 , by providing the rotation detector on the rotating wheel, the angle change with respect to the reference position can be reliably detected, and the output signal after detecting the rotation angle is the same rotation. It can be output to a video conversion information processing apparatus which is one of the control means provided on the ring, and a simple configuration can be achieved.

Further, according to the first aspect, for example, when the night sky black is the background color of the rotating wheel, the silhouette portion is turned black by turning off the LED element of the silhouette portion, and other image portions are colored. In addition to the LED elements that are turned off, it is integrated with the black background color of the night sky, and even if the LED element density is low, the color of the silhouette part should be precise and vivid, and its outlines should stand out. Can do.

The present invention relates to a ferris wheel in which a large number of gondolas are arranged on the outer periphery of a rotating wheel that is driven to rotate about a central axis in the horizontal direction supported by a support leg, and a frame that forms at least one surface of the rotating wheel. A plurality of LED elements, a rotation detector for detecting the rotation of the rotating wheel, and a control means for displaying a still image or a moving image by dimming control of each of these LED elements, the rotation detector Each time the rotation of the rotating wheel is detected at a certain angle, the control means displays the still image or the moving image by shifting the still image or the moving image by a certain angle in a direction opposite to the rotation of the rotating wheel around the rotation axis. A ferris wheel lighting device was used.

As a result, even when the rotating wheel rotates, the display position of the still image and the moving image can always be corrected with respect to the rotation, and a fixed posture with respect to the top and bottom can be maintained.

Embodiment 1 of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a front view of a ferris wheel using the present invention, FIG. 2 is a partially omitted plan schematic view of the ferris wheel, and FIG. 3 is a plan view of a frame near the rotation axis of the ferris wheel.

As shown in FIG. 1, the ferris wheel A supports the rotating wheel 2 on the upper portion of the support leg 1. Specifically, a rotating shaft 3 provided integrally at the center of the rotating wheel 2 is rotatably supported by the support leg 1. In addition, a large number of gondola 4 on which passengers ride are suspended from the outer peripheral edge of the rotating wheel 2 at intervals. The rotating wheel 2 is rotated by an appropriate drive source.

The rotating wheel 2 is provided with a large number of elongated diamond-shaped radial frames 5 arranged side by side from the rotating shaft 3. An annular frame 6 having different diameters around the rotation shaft 3 is provided in a plurality of stages, supported by the radial frames 5. Further, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the radial frame 5 and the annular frame 6 are provided on both side surfaces of the rotating wheel 2, and the radial frames 5 and the annular frame 6 on both side surfaces are provided. A spacer frame 7 is provided between them.

A plurality of LED lamps 8 are provided on the outer surface of the elongated diamond-shaped radial frame 5 as shown in FIG. These LED lamps 8 are connected to an LED panel 10 fixed to the radial frame 5 and the spacer frame 7 near the rotation shaft 3 of the rotating wheel 2 and the auxiliary frame 9 and the like. The LED board 10 is spaced from the space surrounded by the radial frame 5, the annular frame 6, and the spacer frame 9 around the rotation axis 3 of the rotating wheel 2, as shown by the character display in FIG. 1. Are provided. Similarly to these LED boards 10, a PC board 11 is provided on the rotating wheel 2.

The LED lamp 8 is shown in FIG. (a) is a plan view, (b) is a side view, and (c) is a longitudinal sectional view. This LED lamp 8 has a large number of LED elements 8b arranged in an elongated case 8a, and these LED elements 8b are of three types, red, green, and blue. These LED elements 8b can be adjusted as described later. Many kinds of colors are displayed by light control.

The LED lamp 8 is provided with a semi-transparent PC cover 8c on the upper half, and covers the LED elements 8b. In this way, the LED element 8b is covered with the PC cover 8c, thereby uniformizing the light of the LED element 8b. In addition, each end of the LED lamp 8 is covered with an end cover 8e so that light is not diffused from the end of the LED lamp 8 and the picture, characters, symbols, patterns, etc. to be displayed become unclear. A lead wire 8d connecting the LED lamp 8 and the LED panel 10 is led out from one end of the case 8a.

Next, a transmission configuration of a still image or a moving image to a large number of LED lamps 8 provided on both side surfaces of the radial frame 5 will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 5 is a schematic configuration diagram of an image information sending device, and FIG. 6 is a schematic configuration diagram of an image information receiving and processing device.

As shown in FIG. 5, the information processing device 15 provided outside the Ferris wheel A stores video information such as video content and identification information for identifying each video information in association with each other. Then, the information processing device 15 sends identification information for identifying the time information and the selected video information in response to a selection operation of the video information by the user and an input operation of time information indicating the time for displaying the video information. It is the composition to do.

When the wireless LAN relay panel 16 connected to the information processing device 15 receives the time information and the identification information via a wired (LAN cable), the time information and the identification information are transmitted via the wireless LAN antenna 17. The configuration is such that it is sent to the PC board 11 provided on the rotating wheel 2 of the Ferris wheel A.

Further, in the PC board 11 provided on the rotating wheel 2 of the Ferris wheel A, as shown in FIG. 6, the same video information as the video information stored in the information processing device 15 is stored. When the scheduler information processing device 19 is provided and the time information and the identification information are received via the wireless LAN antenna 18, the video information related to the identification information received based on the time information is called up in the form of a DVI signal. It is configured to output to the video conversion information processing apparatus 20.

A rotation detector 21 such as a rotation sensor is connected to the image conversion information processing apparatus 20. The rotation detector 21 detects how much the rotating wheel 2 has rotated from the reference point, that is, a rotation difference (angle) between the rotating wheel 2 and the reference point. The rotation detector 21 outputs a detection signal to the image conversion information processing device 20 every time a predetermined angle, for example, 0.5 degrees is detected.

The video conversion information processing apparatus 20 that has received the video information in the form of a DVI signal converts the DVI signal into an ARTNET signal, distributes it to each LED board 10 and outputs it. Then, when the video conversion information processing device 20 receives the detection signal, the video conversion information display unit 20 displays the video by a predetermined angle by rotating the video around the rotation axis 3 of the rotating wheel 2 in the reverse direction. After the video information is rewritten, it is converted from the DVI signal format to the ARTNET signal format to perform dimming control, distributed to each LED board 10 and output.

The LED board 10 received in the form of the ARTNET signal converts the ARTNET signal into a DMX signal and outputs it to each LED lamp 8. Each LED lamp 8 is turned on in response to the received DMX signal, and is configured to display an image with the LED lamp 8 disposed on the entire surface of the rotating wheel 2.

In addition, the video is performed on both side surfaces of the rotating wheel 2, and the video is displayed in opposite directions. The image may be displayed only on one side of the rotating wheel 2. Furthermore, if two sets of the image transmission information processing device 15 to the video conversion information processing device 20 are prepared, different video images can be displayed on both side surfaces of the rotating wheel 2.

FIG. 7 shows the overall system configuration of the signal processing. In FIG. 7, the information processing device 15 is installed in the tact office 22, and more specifically, the wireless communication through the HUB relay board 23. Connected to the LAN relay panel 16. Further, the power source outside the Ferris wheel A is supplied to the PC board 11 and the AC board 25 in the rotating wheel 2 via the slip ring 24 provided on the rotating shaft 3 of the rotating wheel 2, and the PC board 11 Power is supplied to each LED board 10 from each device of the PC board 11 and the AC board 25.

Next, FIG. 8 shows an image displayed on one side surface of the rotating wheel 2 using this electric decoration device. FIG. 8A shows the windmill blades in black silhouette, and the blades rotate. It is a moving image. (B) The figure is a moving image in which the weathercock is displayed with a black silhouette, and the weathercock rotates around its support axis. (C) The figure is a moving image in which a black silhouette dolphin is jumping over a sea wave. FIG. 4D is a moving image showing a situation in which a large number of champagne bubbles appear in the champagne glass.

In these moving images, the black silhouette is displayed because the image conversion information processing device 20 turns off the LED element 8b corresponding to the displayed still image or silhouette portion of the moving image. The LED elements 8b corresponding to the other parts of the still image or moving image thus dimmed each LED element 8b so as to have a color other than black.

As a result, in addition to the LED element 8b that is turned off, it is integrated with the black part of the night sky. it can.

The control means for displaying a still image or a moving image by dimming control each LED element of the electrical decoration device according to the present invention is the information processing device for image transmission, the information processing device for scheduler, and the video of the above embodiment. The present invention is not limited to the conversion information processing apparatus or the like, and an appropriate one can be applied.

It is a front view of the ferris wheel which uses the electrical decoration apparatus of Example 1 of this invention. It is a partially-omission plan view of a ferris wheel using the electrical decoration device of Example 1 of the present invention. It is a top view of the frame body of the rotating shaft vicinity of the ferris wheel which uses the electrical decoration apparatus of Example 1 of this invention. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS It is a figure which shows the LED lamp of the electrical decoration apparatus of Example 1 of this invention, (a) A figure is a top view, (b) A figure is a side view, (c) A figure is a longitudinal cross-sectional view. It is a schematic block diagram of the apparatus for image information transmission of the electrical decoration apparatus of Example 1 of this invention. It is a schematic block diagram of the image information reception and processing apparatus in PC board of the electrical decoration apparatus of Example 1 of this invention. It is a schematic block diagram of the whole system of the signal processing of the electrical decoration apparatus of Example 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the display image of Example 1 of this invention.

A Ferris wheel 1 Support leg 2 Rotating wheel 3 Rotating shaft 4 Gondola 5 Radial frame 6 Ring frame 7 Spacer frame 8 LED lamp 8a Case 8b LED element 8c PC cover 8d Lead wire 8e End cover 9 Auxiliary frame 10 LED board DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11 PC board 15 Information processing apparatus for image transmission 16 Wireless LAN relay board 17 Antenna for wireless LAN 18 Antenna for wireless LAN 19 Information processing apparatus for scheduler
20 Information Conversion Device for Video Conversion 21 Rotation Detector 22 Tact Office 23 HUB Relay Panel 24 Slip Ring 25 AC Panel

Claims (3)

In a ferris wheel in which a large number of gondolas are arranged on the outer periphery of a rotating wheel that rotates around a central axis in a horizontal direction supported by a support leg,
A number of LED elements on a frame constituting at least one surface of the rotating wheel;
A rotation detector for detecting rotation of the rotating wheel;
Control means for displaying a still image or a moving image by dimming control each of these LED elements,
The dimming control wirelessly outputs identification information and time information associated with video information relating to a still image or a moving image from an information processing device provided outside the ferris wheel, and the control means includes the identification information and time information. Upon receiving the information, in the rotation wheel, wherein the image information according to the identification information from the Ferris wheel scheduler information processing device storing the same image information as the image information stored in the information processing device provided outside the time information At the time of
Each time the rotation detector detects a rotation of a rotating wheel at a certain angle, the control means shifts the called image information by a certain angle in the opposite direction to the rotation of the rotating wheel around the rotation axis. Or, with respect to the arbitrarily set coordinate axis, to maintain a constant posture and display on each LED element,
The control means controls the dimming of the LED element corresponding to the silhouette portion of the displayed still image or moving image to the same color as the background color of the rotating wheel seen through the frame of the rotating wheel. The ferris wheel lighting device characterized in that each of the LED elements can be dimmed so that the other part of the still image or moving image has a color other than the background color. The ferris wheel according to claim 1, wherein the information processing means is capable of displaying images in opposite directions on both side surfaces of the rotating shaft or only on one side surface of the rotating shaft. Lighting device. The rotation detector is provided on the rotating wheel, and detects a rotation angle of the rotating wheel with respect to a predetermined reference position, thereby detecting rotation of the rotating wheel at a constant angle. Or the electric decoration device for ferris wheels of 2.