Coordinated view display device

Abstract

There is provided a coordinated view-display device, a system for creating a three-dimensional display, and a process of creating a three-dimensional display. The display device includes a rotatable portion and a plurality of light-emitting elements connected to the rotatable portion. Rotation of the rotatable portion rotates the light-emitting elements and displays a sequence of images corresponding with segmented image data as an illusion of a continuous three-dimensional image. The system includes an array arranged and disposed to gather segmented image data and a display arranged and disposed to display a sequence of images corresponding with the segmented image data. The displaying forms an illusion of a continuous three-dimensional image. The process includes gathering segmented image data and displaying a sequence of images corresponding with the segmented image data. The displaying forms may provide an illusion of a continuous three-dimensional image.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . An arrangement for presenting a display, the arrangement comprising:
 an advancing device, the advancing device having a travel portion and being operable to cyclically advance the travel portion along a circular path in an advancing direction, the circular path;
 an upstream collection group, the upstream collection group having at least a first pair of passageway portions and a second pair of passageway portions; 
 a downstream collection group, the downstream collection group having at least a first pair of passageway portions and a second pair of passageway portions, 
 each of the first pair of passageway portions of the upstream collection group and the downstream collection group being supported on the travel portion of the advancing device for advancing movement thereby and delimiting a first passageway having a length direction, a lateral direction perpendicular to the lateral direction, and a height direction perpendicular to the length direction and the lateral direction and including a first ingress, the first ingress delimiting a threshold through which light travels into the first passageway, a respective area of the first passageway, as viewed in the lateral and height directions, having light passing therethrough and being deemed the view window of the first passageway, wherein light at the view window can be viewed by an observer and the first pair of passageway portions of the upstream collection group and the downstream collection group being spaced from one another as viewed in the lateral direction of the first passageway at least along a portion of their extents beyond the view window as viewed in the length direction from sufficient to permit light that has traveled past the first ingress to be viewed by an observer exteriorly of the first passageway; and 
 each of the second pair of passageway portions of the upstream collection group and the downstream collection group being supported on the travel portion of the advancing device for advancing movement thereby and delimiting a second passageway and including a second ingress, the second ingress delimiting a threshold through which light travels into the second passageway, the second pair of passageway portions of the upstream collection group and the downstream collection group being spaced from one another as viewed in a lateral direction at least along a portion of their extents sufficient to permit light that has traveled past the second ingress to be viewed by an observer exteriorly of the second passageway, the respective area of the second passageway, as viewed in the lateral and height directions, having light passing therethrough and being deemed the view window of the second passageway, wherein light at the view window can be viewed by the observer, 
 the view windows of the passageways of the downstream collection group being located downstream of the view windows of the passageways of the upstream collection group relative to the advancing direction of the travel portion along the circular path such that, during each full cycle travel of the travel portion of the advancing device along the circular path, the view windows of the passageways of the downstream collection group cyclically travel past a given location on the circular path before the view windows of the first passageways of the upstream collection group have traveled past the given location, 
 the center of the areas of the view windows of the first and second passageways of the upstream collection group lying on a collection circle having a radius less than the radius of the circular path; 
 the center of the areas of the view windows of the first and second passageways of the downstream collection group lying on a collection circle having a radius less than the radius of the circular path, 
 a selected one of the passageways of the upstream collection group and a selected one of the passageways of downstream collection group being in a coordinated relationship with one another, wherein the selected one passageway of the upstream collection group is deemed to be the upstream coordinated passageway and the selected one passageway of the downstream collection group is deemed to be the downstream coordinated passageway, the upstream coordinated passageway delimits a reference bisector plane extending in the length direction of the passageway and bisecting the view window of the passageway such that one-half of the area of the view window lies on one side of the reference bisector plane and the other half of the area of the view window lies on the opposite side of the reference bisector plane, 
 the downstream coordinated passageway delimits an offset bisector plane extending in the length direction of the passageway and bisecting the view window of the passageway such that one-half of the area of the view window lies on one side of the offset bisector plane and the other half of the area of the view window lies on the opposite side of the offset bisector plane, and 
 the reference bisector plane of the upstream coordinated passageway and the offset bisector plane of the downstream coordinated passageway being at an offset angle to one another, wherein the planes are in non-parallel relationship with one another. 
   
     
     
         2 . The arrangement for presenting a display according to  claim 1 , wherein the offset angle has a value between one degree and twenty degrees. 
     
     
         3 . The arrangement for presenting a display according to  claim 1 , wherein the offset angle has a value of nine degrees. 
     
     
         4 . A display arrangement for creating a visual effect, the display arrangement comprising:
 a rotatable element;   a plurality of view restricting elements, the view restricting elements being commonly mounted in an angular manner on the rotatable element at angular spacings from one another; and   a plurality of image display surfaces each disposed between a respective pair of view-restricting elements, the image displaying portions being commonly mounted in an angular manner on the rotatable element.   
     
     
         5 . The display arrangement according to  claim 1 , wherein each image-display surface is radially inward of the respective pair of view-restricting elements between which it is disposed. 
     
     
         6 . An arrangement for presenting a display, the arrangement comprising:
 an advancing device, the advancing device having a travel portion and being operable to cyclically advance the travel portion along a circular path in an advancing direction, the circular path having a radius and the travel portion moving in an angular direction relative to the circular path;   an upstream collection group, the upstream collection group delimiting at least two sight-reducing elements supported on the travel portion of the advancing device for advancing movement thereby;   a downstream collection group, the downstream collection group delimiting at least two sight-reducing elements supported on the travel portion of the advancing device for advancing movement thereby,   an ingress associated with each of the upstream sight-reducing elements, each ingress delimiting a threshold through which light travels,   a view window associated with each of the upstream sight-reducing elements, wherein light at the view window can be viewed by an observer located at a given angular location relative to the circular path, the view window having a display range available at each angular position of the view window that delimits an available angular extent within which the view window is viewable, wherein, across a plurality of different angular positions of the display range that the display range occupies as the view window displaces angularly during the advancing movement, observers who have a line of sight to the display range can view light at the view window through a predetermined extent of angular displacement of the view window,   an ingress associated with each of the downstream sight-reducing elements, each ingress delimiting a threshold through which light travels,   a view window associated with each of the downstream sight-reducing elements, wherein light at the view window can be viewed by an observer located at a given angular location relative to the circular path, the view window having a display range available at each angular position of the view window that delimits an available angular extent within which the view window is viewable, wherein, across a plurality of different angular positions of the display range that the display range occupies as the view window displaces angularly during the advancing movement, observers who have a line of sight to the display range can view light at the view window through a predetermined extent of angular displacement of the view window,   the view windows associated with the downstream collection group being located downstream of the view windows associated with the upstream collection group relative to the advancing direction of the travel portion along the circular path such that, during each full cycle travel of the travel portion of the advancing device along the circular path, the view windows associated with the downstream collection group cyclically travel past a given location on the circular path before the view windows associated with the collection group have traveled past the given location,   each view window having a lateral dimension and a height dimension perpendicular to the lateral dimension that together delimit the area of the view window and having a length extent perpendicular to the lateral dimension and the height dimension,   a respective one of the upstream sight-reducing elements being a lagging upstream sight element and being located relative to a forward one of the upstream sight-reducing elements such that the lagging upstream sight-reducing element, during each full cycle travel of the travel portion of the advancing device along the circular path, reduces the percentage of the display range of the view window of the forward upstream sight-reducing element available within the line of sight of an observer remaining at a fixed angular location, whereupon, during each cycle of travel, the display range of the view window of the forward upstream sight-reducing element is available to an observer remaining at a fixed angular location such that the observer is able to cyclically view the display range of the view window of the forward upstream sight-reducing element through a predetermined extent of angular displacement of the view window and the lagging upstream sight-reducing element progressively reduces to zero the percentage of the display range of the view window of the forward upstream sight-reducing element available to be viewed by the observer as a function of the advancing movement of the view window,   a respective one of the downstream sight-reducing elements being a lagging downstream sight element and being located relative to a forward one of the downstream sight-reducing elements such that the lagging downstream sight-reducing element, during each full cycle travel of the travel portion of the advancing device along the circular path, reduces the percentage of the display range of the view window of the forward downstream sight-reducing element available within the line of sight of an observer remaining at a fixed angular location, whereupon, during each cycle of travel, the display range of the view window of the forward downstream sight-reducing element is available to an observer remaining at a fixed angular location such that the observer is able to cyclically view the display range of the view window of the forward downstream sight-reducing element through a predetermined extent of angular displacement of the view window and the lagging downstream sight-reducing element progressively reduces to zero the percentage of the display range of the view window of the forward downstream sight-reducing element available to be viewed by the observer as a function of the advancing movement of the view window,   at least a selected one of the one pair of the lagging upstream sight-reducing element and the lagging downstream sight-reducing element or the other pair of the forward upstream sight-reducing element and the forward downstream sight-reducing element being an operatively associated pair in a manner in which the view windows of the operatively associated pair have a predetermined orientation with one another, with the view window of the respective one of the lagging upstream sight-reducing element or the forward upstream sight-reducing element of the operatively associated pair delimiting a reference bisector plane extending in the length direction of the view window such that one-half of the area of the view window lies on one side of the reference bisector plane and the other half of the area of the view window lies on the opposite side of the reference bisector plane and the view window of the respective one of the lagging downstream sight-reducing element or the forward downstream sight-reducing element of the operatively associated pair delimiting an offset bisector plane extending in the length direction of the view window such that one-half of the area of the view window lies on one side of the offset bisector plane and the other half of the area of the view window lies on the opposite side of the offset bisector plane, and   the reference bisector plane of the view window of the respective upstream sight-reducing element and the offset bisector plane of the view window of the respective downstream sight-reducing element being at an offset angle to one another greater than zero, wherein the planes are in non-parallel relationship with one another.