Audio-visual display device for pictorial artwork

Details Audio-visual display device for pictorial artwork Audio-visual display device for pictorial artwork

2006-03-07

2006-03-07

Lee, Wilson (Department: 2821)

Card, picture, or sign exhibiting

Display with special effects

Selective or intermittent illumination

C040S714000, C040S716000, C040S717000, C315S307000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07007417

ABSTRACT:
An audio-visual display device for pictorial artwork is disclosed. The preferred embodiment has a universal backbox which contains a lightboard capable of lighting up any and/or all sections of a pictorial artwork placed above it, a hidden electric eye for detecting when the viewer wishes to see a snippet of an audio-visual sequence, a speaker, a memory for storing snippets of an audio sequence, and a microprocessor which receives signals from the electric eye and controls the speaker and the lightboard in accordance with an audio-visual sequence which brings to life the pictorial artwork.

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