Static structures (e.g. – buildings) – Multiroom or level – Multilevel
Reexamination Certificate
1999-10-27
2001-05-29
Chen, Jose V. (Department: 3636)
Static structures (e.g., buildings)
Multiroom or level
Multilevel
C052S235000, C040S452000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06237290
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a high-rise building with a large scale dot-matrix display device.
2. Description of the Related Art
Today numerous types and designs of display apparatus can be seen along city streets and buildings, and are utilized for various advertisement of goods and services or for delivering news. It would be undoubted that as a display screen becomes larger, it conveys more information and becomes more appealing. Taking this relationship into consideration, it would be sufficient to equip a large sign-board with lamps for delivering non-changing information such as a picture or photograph with characters. However, for communicating variable and changing information, such a display should be used as a dot matrix CRT display which is capable of displaying changing characters and moving images.
Recently, large and small display panels with a number of high-intensity LEDs arranged vertically and horizontally are used widely. This type of display panels, whether small or large, have a substantially thick and solid structure. There are mounted electronic circuits on the back side of the panels to drive the LEDs arranged on the front side. There have been no idea that the one side can be seen from another through the panel or that lights located beyond the display can be seen from outside.
However, in today's planning and designing of commercial buildings and event halls with various types of facades such as a curtain wall, there arise needs for a super-large scale dot matrix display device maintaining visibility through the display device as well as the facade. obviously the above conventional display devices with a solid panel structure cannot be employed for this use.
The present applicants proposed a transparent display device which can be divided into panels which can satisfy the above needs, in the Japanese patent application No.9-68457 (dated on Mar. 21, 1997). That panel can be applied to middle and large scale buildings and the disclosure about the method of controlling the whole display in the above application can be utilized to the present application. But if the display device is very large and the building which the device is applied to is very high, there comes a problem about how to construct and maintain the device.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the present invention to propose a high-rise building with a large scale display device on its exterior which can be constructed and maintained easily.
According to one aspect of the present invention, a large scale display device can be constructed inside the transparent glass exterior by installing multiple modules in rows and columns. Each module has a louver structure, wherein the multiple beams are laid across the plural posts. Each beam has multiple LED lamps installed in its front panel at substantially uniform intervals. Thus, the modules can be transparent through the gaps between the beams, allowing to maintain good visibility through the display device as well as to let in the natural light from outside.
Especially when someone wants to see the outside from within the building with his eyes even, the horizontal beams will never obstruct his/her line of sight like an ordinary window shade. The posts of modules and the mullions adjacent thereto have just a little interference with a horizontal sight. Those vertical obstacles can be got rid of by proper choice of positioning and the orientation of his/her face.
Thus the transparent display device can maintain comfortable living space inside the building and create an appealing, wide variety of images shown on a large scale display area provided thereby.
Moreover, the relatively small modules can make it very easier to carry them, and constructing the whole display device as well as connecting cables and maintaining the device have also got eased. What is needed to improve the performance of the device is to replace the modules, there is no need to carry around and replace the other members of the building like glass wall, mullions and vertical guides. Thus, it can be accomplished to save natural resources and construction costs, and to reduce the construction time.
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Oishi Masatoshi
Tokimoto Toyotaro
Avix Inc.
Chen José V.
Pennie & Edmonds LLP
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