Rotational display system
View Patent ↗The present invention provides a system which integrates unique lighting technologies, switching systems, mounting systems, information delivery systems and power supply systems within a vehicular wheel to provide an advanced, high quality visual display apparatus. These technologies, and their many unique applications, provide for a novel and useful series of video display devices that are small, lightweight, efficient and have the capability of producing a clear, bright, high definition image that is equivalent to that of a modern day TV or high quality computer monitor.
1. A rotational display system including:
a computer for storage and recall of data representing at least one visual image;
a controller in wireless communication with the computer and operable to receive at least some of said data;
a rotatable assembly for displaying an image represented by at least a portion of the data transferred from said computer to the controller, said rotatable assembly including an illuminating assembly, said illuminating assembly being operably connected to said controller, said illuminating assembly including at least one illuminating element, said rotatable assembly being constructed and arranged for attachment to a support for rotation about an axis;
a power delivery means for providing power to said rotatable assembly; and
an image represented by said data transferred from said computer to the controller displayed by said rotatable assembly during rotation of said rotatable assembly, said image displayed without bending the horizontal ground plane around said axis.
2. The rotational display system of claim 1 wherein said computer including software constructed and arranged to allow an operator to import, manipulate, store and selectively display an image of an operator's choice with the illuminating assembly.
3. The rotational display system of claim 1 wherein said controller being constructed and arranged to control illumination of said at least one illuminating element.
4. The rotational display system of claim 3 wherein said illuminating assembly including a plurality of illuminating elements, wherein each of said illuminating elements are individually controllable for illumination by said controller.
5. The rotational display system of claim 4 wherein said illuminating assembly including illuminating elements which include three primary colors red, green and blue, wherein said illuminating assembly is constructed and arranged to display true color.
6. The rotational display system of claim 4 wherein said illuminating elements extending across said axis of rotation, whereby a displayed image can extend across said axis of rotation.
7. The rotational display system of claim 4 wherein said plurality of illuminating elements are selected from the group consisting of light emitting diodes, organic light emitting diodes, electroluminescent strips, liquid crystal displays, thin film transistor liquid crystal displays, plasma displays, and small light bulbs.
8. The rotational display system of claim 3 wherein said rotatable assembly including multiple illuminating assemblies that share a common axis of rotation, wherein each of said illuminating assemblies being positioned at different angles with respect to said axis of rotation, wherein said controller is constructed and arranged to synchronize images generated by said illuminating assembly in a predetermined sequence to provide a three dimensional image.
9. The rotational display system of claim 3 wherein there being a plurality of said illuminating elements and said controller including circuitry constructed and arranged to synchronously illuminate the illuminating elements.
10. The rotational display system of claim 3 including a means of synchronization and wherein said means for synchronization is constructed and arranged to determine the relative position of said illuminating assembly with respect to a fixed position during rotation thereof.
11. The rotational display system of claim 10 wherein said means of synchronization being selected from the group consisting of gyroscopes, magnetic sensors, Hall Effect sensors, lasers, infrared devices, radio-frequency devices, optical/reflective tachometers, laser tachometers, mechanical position (rotary) encoders, accelerometers, displacement sensors and electromagnetic sensors.
12. The rotational display system of claim 1 wherein said rotatable assembly being constructed and arranged to display planar images.
13. The rotational display system of claim 1 wherein said rotatable assembly being constructed and arranged to display cylindrical images.
14. The rotational display system of claim 1 wherein said rotatable assembly being constructed and arranged to display three dimensional images.
15. The rotational display system of claim 1 wherein said rotational display system being constructed and arranged to display streaming video.