Animated gobo

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9410670-B2
Application number	US-201213602235-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 3, 2012
Priority date	Sep 1, 2011
Publication date	Aug 9, 2016
Grant date	Aug 9, 2016

Abstract

An automated luminaire, that combines outputs from two different gobo assemblies. A first gobo assembly has a combined sectional frame that is a combination of a plurality of different frames, each frame representing a different individual image. The combined sectional frame includes different optical codings for the different views of the image. A second gobo assembly includes an interference pattern which is coded at different orientations to allow only one of the images to be seen at any of a plurality of different orientations of the interference pattern. At least one of the first and second gobo assemblies being rotatable, and commanded by the commands received by the computer to different orientations relative to one another, to allow the only one of the images to be seen at anyone time.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A gobo set, comprising:
a first gobo including an image thereon that is a combination of a plurality of different frames, each frame representing a different individual image, and the different frames collectively representing multiple different images, the first gobo including the plurality of different frames all combined into a combined sectional frame, where the combined sectional frame includes different optical codings for the multiple different images; and
a second gobo, including an interference pattern, the interference pattern being coded at different rotational orientations at regular spacings that are in proportion to the multiple different images in the first gobo to allow one of the images to be seen at any of a plurality of different rotational orientations of the interference pattern.

2. The gobo set as in claim 1 , wherein the first gobo includes multiple different views of the image combined into the combined sectional frame, and the second gobo is moved to reveal predominantly one of the views at each of the plurality of different orientations.

3. The gobo set as in claim 1 , wherein the second gobo shows a combination of one frame and at least part of the interference pattern at each of the different positions.

4. The gobo set as in claim 1 , wherein the multiple different images are individual frames of an animation, and further comprising an illumination source that illuminates the gobos to display an animation.

5. The gobo set as in claim 4 , wherein the first gobo includes multiple different combined sectional frames, each representing a different animation, and further comprising an illumination source that illuminates the gobos to display an animation.

6. The gobo as in claim 1 , wherein said first and second gobos are round, and further comprising a moving device that rotates the second gobo through the different orientations to create the animation using the images on the first gobo.

7. Automated luminaire, comprising:
a light source;
a computer, receiving commands over a network;
a first gobo assembly including an image thereon that is a combination of a plurality of different frames, each frame representing a different individual image, and the different frames collectively representing multiple different images, the first gobo including the plurality of different frames all combined into a combined sectional frame, where the combined sectional frame includes different optical codings for the multiple different images; and
a second gobo assembly, including an interference pattern, the interference pattern being coded at different orientations to allow predominantly one of the images to be seen at any of a plurality of different orientations of the interference pattern; and
a rotating device that rotates the second gobo assembly through the different orientaions of the interference pattern to display an animation between the different orientaions, said rotating device being commanded by the commands received by the computer to different orientations relative to one another, to cause the predominantly one of the images to be seen at any one time, and to cause the different orientations to be seen in a sequence one after another to form an animation between the different I mean multiple different images of the multiple different orientations.

8. The luminaire as in claim 7 , wherein the first gobo includes multiple different views of the image combined into the combined sectional frame, and the second gobo reveals one of the views at each of the plurality of different orientations.

9. The luminaire as in claim 7 , wherein the second gobo shows a combination of one frame and at least part of the interference pattern at each of different positions.

10. The luminaire as in claim 7 , wherein the multiple different images are individual frames of an animation and further comprising an illumination source that illuminates the gobos to display the animation.

11. The luminaire as in claim 7 , wherein the first gobo includes multiple different combined sectional frames, each representing a different animation and further comprising an illumination source that illuminates the gobos to display the animation.

12. The luminaire as in claim 7 , wherein the computer runs software that creates the animation by compiling two gobos and rotating only one of the two gobos.

13. The luminaire as in claim 7 , further comprising a lens assembly which includes first and second in focus locations which are separate locations that are both simultaneously in focus, and wherein the first gobo is at said first in focus location and the second gobo is at said second in focus location.

Assignees

• Outland Breck
• Production Resource Group Llc

Inventors

• Outland Breck

Classifications

• G03B21/00

  Projectors or projection-type viewers; Accessories therefor (devices for changing pictures G03B23/00) · CPC title

• G03B21/2053

  Intensity control of illuminating light (controlled by video signal processing H04N5/74 or H04N9/31) · CPC title

• F21S10/007 Primary

  using rotating transparent or colored disks, e.g. gobo wheels · CPC title