US3694062A - Stroboscopic display - Google Patents

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US3694062A
US3694062A US872636A US3694062DA US3694062A US 3694062 A US3694062 A US 3694062A US 872636 A US872636 A US 872636A US 3694062D A US3694062D A US 3694062DA US 3694062 A US3694062 A US 3694062A
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  • ..G03b 25/00 system is substantially operable at any vehicle speed [58] Field of Search "352/100; 40/ 106.52, I30 L; above a certain minimum and is not dependent on the 315/155, 156, 157 spacing of windows in the vehicle.
  • Prior art animation devices embrace zoetropes, flikker-scopes, biographs and other illusion devices involving a series of graduated characters or figures scanned in succession by a viewer.
  • Such prior art is represented by U.S. Pat Nos. 721,718; 742,632; 917,587; 978,854; 2,026,753; 2,299,731; 2,319,287; 2,913,954 and 3,022,705.
  • Two of these patents i.e., U.S. Pat. Nos. 917,587 and 978,854 are directed to systems wherein a moving passenger vehicle is made to trigger, in succession, a series of lamps each of which is associated with one of the pictures or frames.
  • One patent, i.e., US. Pat. No. 2,319,287 teaches the successive illumination of a series of graduated pictures by a triggered lamp mounted on the vehicle.
  • the present invention envisages, in a system for use with internally lighted vehicles, the satisfaction of the following criteria wherein the system is (a) independent of variations in vehicle speed, (b) is independent of vehicle window spacing relative to picture spacing, (c) is effective for viewers within the vehicle substantially regardless of the angle of view in relation to the plane of the pictures or windows, (d) requires no pictures to be mounted on the vehicle, (e) which has a series of graduated pictures which are illuminated in a succession, and (f) independent of the direction of travel of said vehicle.
  • a stroboscopic animation display system for use with internally lighted passenger vehicles having windows, comprises a series of graduated animation pictures disposed along a surface which the windows of said vehicles may pass, an individual source of high intensity lighting for each picture of said series of pictures, each of said individual sources of lighting being pulsed at a relatively high and random rate in response to an associated firing signal, and an individual photosensitive device associated with and mounted closely by each of said pictures, each photosensitive device producing the said firing signal when internal light emitted from any one of the said windows on a vehicle impinges on the device, thereby to activate the source of lighting associated the respective device, the arrangement being such that the source of light associated with a given picture is pulsed when that picture is wholly in view from that window from which the said internal light was emitted.
  • FIG. 1 shows a succession of graduated pictures, each with a source of illumination and a photoelectric sensing device for triggering the same.
  • FIG. 2 is a diagram, in plan, showing the field of view for these passengers.
  • FIG. 1 there is shown a succession of graduated pictures 1, 2, n1 and n, each having a source of high intensity, short duration illumination such as shown at 13, and 23.
  • sources of illumination as known for example, as stroboscopic lamps.
  • Each of the lamps are triggered by a signal from a photosensitive device, such as indicated at 12 and 22 by the light passing outwards from the internally lighted vehicle.
  • the devices are preferably disposed as close as possible to their associated pictures. Ideally, the devices should be located near the vertical center-lines of the pictures particularly where vehicles will pass in both directions and where there is practically no time delay between photo-sensing and triggering of the source.
  • FIG. 2 there is shown a highly simplified plan diagram showing the spacial relationship between a series of graduated pictures 41, 51, 61 and 71, and a series of windows 4, 5, 6 and 7 on one side of a passenger vehicle.
  • the windows are separated by win dow-frames or structural members forming part of the vehicle.
  • the animation must be such that the graduated pictures are capable of reverse viewing.
  • an animation showing a person blowing-up a balloon would not be susceptible to reverse viewing with an intelligent result.
  • the plane of the window frames of the vehicle should be as close to the plane of the series of graduated pictures as possible. Firstly, this will reduce spillover from the illumination of adjacent pictures, secondly, capping, as used in the cinematograph sense, is improved and thirdly, there is possibly more precise triggering of the photosensitive devices.
  • the distances between the pictures and the windows may be increased to a practical amount providing the intensity of the strobo lighting is adequate.
  • the photosensitive devices should preferably be adjusted such that triggering occurs when the full width of the picture is visible through the window.
  • the triggering of the strobo lamps will be substantially random. It is important that the recycling time of the strobo units be sufficiently fast to accommodate the highest triggering rate to be encountered. This time, will of course, be further related to the maximum speed of the vehicle. In practice, this triggering time may be estimated by a simple analysis of the functions involved, as discussed above, or measured by a trail run of the vehicle past the pictures accompanied by timing of the appearance and disappearance of the pictures.
  • a stroboscopic animation display system for use with internally lighted passenger vehicles having windows, said system comprising:
  • each photosensitive device associated with and mounted closely by each of said pictures, and being sensitive to light entered from a portion of window area substantially adjacent thereto, thereby to be insensitive to light from sources other than the window passing the device at any given moment, each photosensitive device producing the said firing signal when internal light emitted from any one of the said windows on a vehicle impinges on the device, thereby to activate the source of lighting associated with the respective device.

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