Three dimensional viewing apparatus

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCING ON A VIEWING SCREEN, BEFORE AN AUDIENCE, AND IN STEREOSCOPIC RELIEF, A SCENE EMPLOYING A PROGRESSIVE SERIES OF STEREOSCOPICALLY RELATED PICTURES ADJACENT ONES OF WHICH ARE STEREOSCOPIC DOUBLETS, SAID APPARATUS COMPRISNG: A COMPOSITE CONTIGUOUS VIEWING SCREEN INCLUDING A HORIZONTAL SERIES OF VIEWING CELLS EACH HAVING A BACK, PROJECTED IMAGE RECEIVING PROJECTION SURFACE AND A FRONT LENS IN LIGHT COMMUNICATION THEREWITH AND SPACED THEREFROM A DISTANCE LESS THAN THE FOCAL LENGTH OF THE LENS, THE RESPECTIVE DISTANCES BETWEEN THE INDIVIDUAL LENSES AND THEIR RESPECTIVE PROJECTION SURFACES BEING EQUIVALENT, AND THE WIDTHS OF THE RESPECTIVE VIEWING CELLS BEING EQUAL; A PLURALITY OF HORIZONTALLY SPACED PROJECTOR MEANS EACH DIRECTED SOLELY TOWARD THE PROJECTION SURFACE OF A SINGLE ASSOCIATED CELL TO CAST THEREON A RESPECTIVE ONE OF A REGULARLY PROGRESSIVE PLURALITY OF PICTURES OF OVERLAPPING SCENE-SECTORS OF A SCENE PHOTOGRAPHED, SAID FRONT LENSES BEING ANAMORPHOSCOPIC TO MAGNIFY HORIZONTALLY, SELECTED VERTICAL STRIPS OF SAID PICTURES, SELECTION BEING DETERMINED BY THE POSITION OF THE OBSERVER; AND MEANS FOR DISTORING THE VERTICAL-TO-HORIZONTAL PROPORTIONS OF THE PICTURES PRIOR TO CASTING THEM ONTO THE PROJECTION SURFACES TO COMPENSATE FOR THE HORIZONTAL MAGNIFICATION OF SAID LENSES, SAID LENSES BEING SO CONSTRUCTED AND SO ARRANGED, OF THEMSELVES AND WITH RESPECT TO THEIR REPECTIVE, PROJECTED IMAGE RECEIVING PROJECTION SURFACES, THAT FROM EACH VIEWING ANGLE IN THE AUDIENCE THERE WILL BE SEEN BY THE RESPECTIVE EYES OF AN OBSERVER THROUGH EACH FRONT LENS RESPECTIVE IMAGES WHICH ARE COEXTENSIVE IN ANGLE SUBTENDED WITH SAID LENS, WITH RESPECT TO SAID RESPECTIVE EYES, AND WHICH CORRESPOND TO ADJACENT ONES OF SAID NARROW VERTICAL STRIPS OF EACH DISTORTED PICTURE BUT ARE MAGNIFIED HORIZONTALLY TO RESTORE THE ORIGINAL PROPORTIONS THEREOF, AND THAT SAID IMAGES AS SEEN THROUGH ALL THE LENSES COMBINE AND BLEND TOGETHER IN TWO INDEPENDENT SERIES, SEEN BY THE RESPECTIVE EYES, TO PRODUCE TWO, INDEPENDENT, COMPOSITE SCENES, EACH VIEWABLE BY A SINGLE EYE, CORRESPONDING PORTIONS OF SAID COMPOSITE SCENES BEING STEREOSCOPICALLY RELATED.