Optical: systems and elements – Holographic system or element – For reconstructing image
Patent
1996-09-17
1999-11-23
Spyrou, Cassandra
Optical: systems and elements
Holographic system or element
For reconstructing image
359 1, 359 24, 283 86, G03H 122, G03H 128, G03H 100, B42D 1500
Patent
active
059910577
ABSTRACT:
The present invention uses a hologram superimposed on a traditional picture such as a photograph or printed picture. The hologram is more viewable at certain angle ranges than at others. This allows the hologram image, the picture or a combination of both to be seen at different angles, thus allowing different visual effects. In a preferred embodiment a pre-made multi-channel hologram is superimposed over a user's portrait photograph taken in a photo booth. The multi-channel hologram is aligned with the photograph so that by varying the viewing angle of the combined picture and hologram an interesting, entertaining or educational effect, such as transforming, or "morphing," the user's face into another face or image, is seen. For example, a portrait photograph of the user can morph into an animal's face, a skeleton, a scary beast, etc. The morphing, or transformation, effect is easily achieved by insuring that the hologram image is substantially aligned with the portrait photograph. For example, the eyes of the user's face in the portrait photograph must match up with the eyes in the multi-channel hologram. The multi-channel hologram is affixed to the photograph to produce the device. In one embodiment, a "frame" in the multi-channel hologram is blank (i.e., fully transparent) so that the photograph can be seen without obstruction at some angle. Other frames show successive phases of the morph. To view the morphing effect, the viewer merely moves the combined photo and hologram device from side to side, or up and down, so that the morphing effect is observed as the facial image is progressively obscured by images of the multi-channel hologram. This creates a visual effect of having the photograph morph, or change, into the holographic image and vice versa.
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Excerpt from book entitled "Holography Marketplace 5th Edition" --Edited by Brian Kluepfel, Alan Rhody and Franz Ross, Oct. 1996.
Chang Audrey
Miller Jerry A.
Sony Corporation
Sony Electronics Inc.
Spyrou Cassandra
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