Granted Patent B2

US 10,413,098 · App. 15/295,453 · Granted Sep 17, 2019

Inventors: Deborah Petersen (Chicago, IL); David Gregory Smith, III (San Diego, CA)

Assignee: PLANETART, LLC

A47G1/0622G09F13/04G09F13/22F21Y2115/10G09F2013/222

Abstract

Claims (30)

1. A system, comprising:

a light layer having a pattern of lights formed on a printed circuit board (PCB); and

an image layer positioned over the light layer, the image layer having an image formed thereon,

wherein the pattern of lights is visible through the image formed on the image layer,

wherein the light layer and the image layer are substantially of equal size, and

wherein the pattern of lights of the light layer is not associated with any features of the image of the image layer and is randomly distributed throughout the image layer.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the PCB includes printed electrical lines leading to light sources forming the pattern of lights.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the light sources are light emitting diodes (LEDs).

4. The system of claim 1 , further comprising:

a frame, wherein the light layer and the image layer are mounted on the frame.

5. A system, comprising:

a set of lighting templates including at least two lighting templates, each lighting template including a pattern of lights formed on a printed circuit board (PCB), wherein each lighting template in the set of lighting templates includes a different pattern of lights; and

a set of image templates including an image formed thereon, wherein each image template corresponds to a lighting template selected from the set of lighting templates,

wherein an image template from the set of image templates is positioned over a corresponding lighting template from the set of lighting templates,

wherein the pattern of lights is visible through the image formed on the image template,

wherein each lighting template in the set of lighting templates and each image template in the set of image templates are substantially of equal size, and

wherein the pattern of lights of the light templates is not associated with any features of the images of the image template and is randomly distributed throughout the image layer.

6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the PCB includes printed electrical lines leading to light sources forming the pattern of lights.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the light sources are light emitting diodes (LEDs).

8. A method, comprising:

selecting an image template from a set of image templates, each image template in the set of image templates having an image formed thereon; and

identifying a lighting template corresponding to the selected image template from a set of lighting templates, wherein the set of lighting templates includes at least two lighting templates, each lighting template including a pattern of lights formed on a printed circuit board (PCB), wherein each lighting template in the set of lighting templates includes a different pattern of lights; and

positioning the selected image template over the corresponding lighting template,

wherein the pattern of lights formed on the corresponding lighting template is visible through an image formed on the image template,

wherein each lighting template in the set of lighting templates and each image template in the set of image templates are substantially of equal size, and

wherein the pattern of lights of the light templates is not associated with any features of the images of the image template and is randomly distributed throughout the image layer.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the PCB includes printed electrical lines leading to light sources forming the pattern of lights.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the light sources are light emitting diodes (LEDs).

11. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:

mounting the selected image template and the corresponding lighting template on a frame.

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Continuity (1)