Optical: systems and elements – Projection screen – Unitary sheet comprising plural reflecting areas
Patent
1994-08-12
1997-12-09
Shafer, Ricky D.
Optical: systems and elements
Projection screen
Unitary sheet comprising plural reflecting areas
359461, 359851, 359855, G03B 2156, G03B 2160, G02B 508
Patent
active
056966253
ABSTRACT:
A flat screen receives light from a light projector at a projector location, and reflects the light to a spectator area. The screen has a center, spaced apart upper and lower edges and a pair of spaced apart side edges. The screen includes a multiplicity of reflective elements arranged in a plurality of vertical rows. Each row extends between the upper and lower edges of the screen. The plurality of rows are horizontally spaced and distributed between the pair of side edges. The elements of one row are displaced vertically with respect to the elements of an adjacent row and all of said element lie in a common plane so that the screen is flat. Each element has an optically active convex surface with a vertical generatrix and a curved horizontal directrix which crosses the generatrix at a center of the element. Each element has a mean normal straight line extending through the element center, the convex surface of the element being oriented so that an angle between a first mean ray of light from the projector location to the element center, and a second mean ray of light from the element center to a center of the spectator area, is bisected by the mean normal straight line so that the elements have a changing orientation between the screen center and the screen edges, both vertically and horizontally.
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Malifaud Pierre Leon A.
Vuillaume Gerard Marcel
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