Metatroy Blog Introduction –patent attributes, history, plans

Metatroy is a blog and twitter written by Diane Troyer about her patent portfolio for Laser TV.   Troyer’s last patent was issued on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, 2012. The claims cover a laser apparatus with a projector and camera with dimensional vivid full color images.

Troyer has invented the best approach to provide laser full spectrum color, high contrast auto dimensional images (Laser TV).  She calls the device MetaZtron Vision (MZTV).

http://www.slideshare.net/metatroy/troyer-outline-411

Troyer’s patent claims teach how to create laser images with full color spectrum and high contrast with pure black and white and no artifacts with limited speckle.  The architecture provides eye safe images by reflecting expanded laser beams. This also allows mitigation of heat from the lasers.  The laser beams are spatially modulated with a Z depth factor in each pixel to provide auto dimensional images (3D without glasses).  The Images have IF IT IS attributes:  Infinite Focus, Instant Transformation; Innate Sharpness.

With IF IT IS, the images automatically adjust to curved surfaces with even distribution of laser light across the screen.  There is separation of foreground from background in 2D and 3D images.  Others who are attempting to deliver laser TV (Microvision, Light Blue Optics, Sony, IMAX/ Barco/Kodak etc.)  are following Troyer’s patented formula for great laser images.

The Griffin Group backed the Troyer prototype. Roy Disney was an advocate of the Troyer process, recognizing the inherent qualities of her patented laser imaging process.

Many Disney Imagineering (see the Captain EO replacement design), many other designers for theme parks including Siegfried (Siegfried and Roy) and the Jackson Group.

http://www.slideshare.net/metatroy/diane-troyer-ztv-themed-entertainment-gallary2010

Roy Disney was in charge of the reissue of the Disney classics. He discovered how expensive it was to set up Fantasia and the other Disney 2D legacy film features to be released on an IMAX dome.  Roy Disney helped arrange a demonstration of the Troyer video laser projector on an IMAX dome at the Tech Museum in San Jose.  The viewers jumped up not believing what they saw— a satellite boxing match—the boxers hovering in space, the red blood spattering.  An IMAX operative had the water and power turned off and locked the theater door so the waiting people from Lucas, Disney and Technicolor could not view the images.

Troyer held demonstrations in her California Metatron Labs. This is a partial list of company representatives that attended:  Kodak, Sony, Disney, Panavision, Warner, Universal, Paramount, IMAX, Samsung, JVC, SAIC, Telcordia, Raytheon/ Williams Air Force Base, etc.

Clients were thrilled about the attributes. The Griffith Park Planetarium was waiting for the Metatron for their refurbish, so they could deliver the ultimate in immersive space travel.  There were many orders but the Zuddites (modern Luddites) were too strong with their attacks.  They stopped the delivery of the first 10 projectors that were assembled by stealing them.  They took the projectors and stopped the laser company that was supplying the gas lasers. The ten assembled laser projectors were never recovered.

Today finally the industry is recognizing that laser projection is an answer for best images. Also some realize, as Roy Disney and others recognized 10 years ago that Troyer’s patents were the answer for the dome, CAVE, augmented realties, simulation, and immersive training and also best 3D imaging. Troyer calls these platforms the HIVE: Holographic Immersive Virtual Environments.

The Troyer Canadian patent granted Feb, 28, 2011 reinforced that the US patent claims are strong.  Troyer was issued a Valentine patent Feb. 14, 2012.  The claims cover a laser apparatus with a projector and camera that portray dimensional vivid full color images.

The best image dimensional process will change gaming and simulation as we know it.  The patent claims also streamline the Telecine Digital Intermediary process. The claims provide a method for duplicating high quality scanning of objects and art, etc.  Dimensional captured images such as endoscopic and MRI, do not have to be distorted on flat screens, but can be viewed as they were captured.    Any feed such as a football game or TV show or a 2D legacy movie such as  Star Trek can be seen in auto dimensional  Cinerama. Troyer calls this Z Rama.

Troyer and team are making strategic alignments so that it will not be another 10 years of chaos before the next plateau in imaging is introduced and offered to the waiting audiences.  A patent troll approach could be taken. Several groups are infringing.  The Kodak patents do not cover the laser dome dimensional projector as the IMAX CEO states,  The LIPA  laser projector consortium made up of Sony, Barco, Christies, IMAX, NEC, Dolby and others  is suggesting the Troyer patented approach as their own.   Intel will be infringing if they sell the Microvision projectors.

Troyer feels that it was a great misfortune when the operators in theme parks, planetariums, dome museums, science centers, command and control facilities, simulation and other immersive venues have not had the opportunities to take advantage of the KISS (keep it simple streamlining) real time approach that would have saved a fortune and delivered clear vivid immersive imaging for the viewers.

Several details are important.  The Troyer laser TV process uses the infrastructure that exists now. Troyer believes that it is impractical to attempt to create auto dimensional (3D without glasses) on flat screens. 3D images work best when there is depth—space such as on a curved screen.  The reason this has not happened before is that projectors/ displays were not capable of providing the IF IT IS attributes.

Internet TV:   It is predicted by experts that the MetaZtron Vision (MZTV) formula will be used.  The ZTV suitcase is a small projector that creates big screen auto dimensional high end images.

We are hoping for a fast track KISS approach to the missing link for the HIVE—MZTV. There will be many apps created for the linchpin MZTV and HIVE platforms.  It will be the great next frontier with a lot of crowd sourcing. The hungry youth will be mentored by the well trained hands on experts.  The HIVE provides the tool kit for the Holodeck Playpen.

HIVE Platform Applications and Venues

Memo: Feb.  21,  2012

 

What is brought to table?

Troyer patent portfolio and proven laser prototype.

Patented design ready to implement that is KISS and COTS

KISS: keep it simple streamline; COTS: Off the shelf

For large MetaZtron (over 20 ft.) and smaller MZTV (under 20 ft. to PICO/ Suitcase)

Team; “Tribe”/ pack/ conclave of support people

PROCESS

Mostly dealing with Troyer until the roadmap.is structured.

We need help on the ground for the layout of the smaller models for gaming and home.

At this Point in Enterprise: ready to pull in the money after years of targeting the goal.

More support now available because finally industry understands about the transformation.

Courage and strength to overcome the Zuddites

Zuddites instinct has been to trash the transformative HIVE technology (modern Luddites).

Report on Troyer Patent Portfolio

Troyer US patent 8113660: Issued Feb. 14, 2012. Laser Apparatus Camera Projector with full spectrum color dimensional images (3D claims). These claims were implied in the 2001 patent, but are more fully described in the issued 2012 Valentine patent. It will be interesting for the reader to study the claims and then think what the meaning is for this patent.

The basic patent read also helps make these issues clear.

Description of Uses

Telecine: Camera sensors capture with small pictures of film or video. The Laser camera projector apparatus produces real time full color 2D to 3D images. The images are projected onto a small curved screen which provides the space needed to portray depth– separate the background from the foreground for the dimensional 2D to 3D effect. This Telecine process provides color enhancement and also transforms 2D feeds to a more dimensional image in real time.

Microscopic, Telescopic, Endoscopic: sensor camera captures and in real time amplifies to high contrast dimensional images—not distorted in a flat screen.

Medical, Scientific, Instrumental: MRI, etc.  Splices can be directed optically and camera captured and combined for full dimensional images to be seen in real time.

Speaker or actors on stage: Optically captured and amplified on huge screen.

Laser Light Engine with Lens: Engine is attached to the front of a film or video projector. The arc lamps are removed. The images are small with white light (LED)? The camera sensor captures the images that are transformed with powerful laser beams to modulated bright full colored dimensional pictures. These are projected with depth on flat big screens or on a Z*Rama screen (dome).

Tool Kits and Applications

The Kinect is an infrared 3D depth sensor that captures point cloud data to situate where the performer is located in their environment. The recently delivered perfected 2.5-D camera has been in the development process for years. At the trade shows long ago you could see attempts for capturing the movements of the participant in interactive tennis or golf games. Think about today’s laser carpenter tools and the sophisticated object scanning.

Microsoft made a genius move in packaging their Kinect which is a 2.5-D camera, taking interactive gaming to a new level.  Microsoft like Apple kept an open architecture for apps (applications). Kinect apps started pouring in—from academic science labs, from university’s and from innovative teens.

Crowd sourcing (groups) will support creating MetaZtron camera/projector apps. MetaZtron is the linchpin for the HIVE. COTS off the shelf software and hardware are placed in tool kits that are useful and coordinate with the MZTV attributes for real time dimensional Z depth images. Dimensional curved space can be explored. This is truly Edutainment— learning the crafts and having fun— playing with the new form of virtual building blocks.

This is putting A (Art) into STEM to for STEAM TEAMS. Science, technology, engineering, and math are enhanced and enjoyed. Who knows – the Holodeck might be ready to be used before Captain Kirk is born March 22, 2228?  Who knows how fast the STEAM TEAMS can create when they have the tool kit and the linchpin loadstone for the HIVE?

This is an example of applications that can work with the MetaZtron camera/ projector for augmented realist immersive training, teaching and gaming.  A combined 2.5-D depth camera and high end capture camera take the Troyer patented process to interesting transformative realms. The Kinect camera is one of the many applications that can create new platforms, your imagination the limit.  Now there is a KISS linchpin to make creating the HIV possible.

 

HIVE Platforms

Three dimensional modeling is critical for the HIVE (holographic Immersive Virtual environment). Platforms. The participant, performer, Opera singer, warrior must be located and tracked in their space. Imagine a new form of Karaoke.  The performer is camera captured and placed in an environment of their choice in real time.  Maybe it is the special world that the singer has created? Maybe it is just a field of daffodils? Maybe this is a duet and the other singer becomes a charming avatar character, moving with the beat of the song. Performers can interact in their holodeck playpen—that has evolved way beyond todays CAVE. .

Go to the MetaZone gaming café and have a more physical experience, interacting in virtual worlds. The gathered enthusiasts write their own musical and create the worlds and perform in front of a live audience who are part of the action.  The show is televised and is claimed a great event.  The show has been purchased by Google, Disney, Cuban or one of the other companies that have raised money to buy local content. This is for an evolved You Tube type channel, but with longer shows. One fun way for the locals to get a salary:  the camera people, writers, singers, actors, etc.

The local MetaZone (gaming) or MetaSite with big screen Planetarium and Z*Rama—dimensional Cinerama—any 2D or 3D feed – but also a great local place to perform with the back set as part of the Holodeck Playpen.  Back to the days when local communities had Opera houses/ juke joints/ town meeting halls where people Congregate, Collaborate, Create, Celebrate.

And then there is the attached ZELF lab (Zone Enhanced Location Fusion) where the Zeons (those trained in the craft of MetaZtron Vision– MZTV) create HIVE platform applications. Companies will pay the ZELF Lab and Zeons a great deal for designing and delivering needed HIVE platforms for human factors, training, mapping, discovery, mapping medical training, healing, behavior modification, etc.  High paying jobs are created with hands on mentor training.

Maybe Internet TV audiences will watch the Holodeck Playpen competition to see who has the best After Hours Live Show.  This is described in:

MetaZtron Vision Themed Entertainment (see the Sprite)

Or the teens can have a best interactive horror show movie/game or there can be the challenge of the Zombies (secure the territory from danger) – which helps promote local security and first responder preparedness. Some might have a small holodeck playpen in their home theater. You play with others at home, at school, or at the MetaSite, MetaZone or MetaSphere.

A physicist provides a special show at the regional MetaSphere Planetarium. This is an immersive Edutainment for a TED like event. The physicist preforms for the audience from the actual world that has been created with the big dimensional curved screen backset. This takes the power point to a new level.

It would be great to invite the audience into the HIVE so they can also experience the fractal world that is constantly being created—or maybe they might want to go to the Saturn rings and hang out there?  Global labs in universities and science centers and in companies are working to expand the CAVE, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, immersive training. Companies such as John Deere, Caterpillar and Rockwell Collins are attempting to create better CAVE environments. It is time to go beyond the flat wall CAVE.  The HIVE takes the participant light years from the CAVE. From Human Factors (how to design best Gator or bulldozer) to best medical emergency training the MetaZtron is the KISS linchpin that creates the dimensional full color high contrast always in focus realistic (like the eyes see) HIVE.

This is the nearest type of environment that could be found in themed entertainment.

http://www.blooloop.com/PressReleases/-Live-Park-World-s-First-4D-Avatar-Theme-Park-S/3290

Best Valentine Ever– New Patent

Best Valentine’s Gift— ever— also more expensive than most gifts—but a great investment with pretty much guaranteed return at this point. Patents are expensive for an independent she-wolf, that is not in a pack at this moment. This patent is the icing on the cake for the Troyer patent portfolio.

Patent Pending: There is also the Telecine/ Digital Intermediate (DI) patent pending. Maybe I should just publish the claims— which will be as effective as being issued in a patent — maybe in this case— because they are based on the 2001 patent claims.
Provisional:  Also I have a hot provisional— I am so excited about getting to work in the lab on this one.
Troyer US Patent February 14, 2012 8113660

Laser Apparatus with Projector and Camera with sharp full spectrum color high contrast sharp  dimensional images

IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
Applicant: Diane Troyer
Invention: Laser Projection Apparatus with LIQUID-CRYSTAL LIGHT VALVES
AND SCANNING READING BEAM
February 14, 2012
Serial No: 8113660
Filed: 04/20/2006
Group Art Unit: 2878
Examiner: WILLIAM C. DOWLING

1. A laser apparatus comprising:
a camera having an image sensor for gathering an image;
a laser modulator for receiving a signal from the image sensor then projecting the
image as a picture beam, wherein the beam that is projected includes visible laser light
having a wavelength of 635 nanometers red or longer;
a reflective light valve for modulating the beam; and
means for addressing the laser beam on the face of the light valve during projection
of said desired image;
wherein the projector produces collimated spatially modulated laser beams that
produce sharp images with depth.

2. The laser apparatus of claim 1, wherein:
the camera has a means for providing depth enhancement scalability and means
to separate the visible light into red, green and blue color information.

3. The laser apparatus of claim 1 further comprising:
means for incorporating blue and green laser light into the picture beam and separate
additional reflective light valves for modulating the blue and green light
respectively.

4. The laser apparatus of claim 1, wherein:
said reflective light valve also receives blue and green laser light for modulation.

5. The laser apparatus for claim 1, wherein said reflective light valve is a liquid-crystal reflective light valve.

6. The 1aser apparatus for claim 1, wherein:
the beams also include green and blue laser light and
wherein the laser light of wavelength equal to 635 nanometers or longer mixes
with the green and blue laser light to provide substantially pure neutral colors
including pure white and pure black.

7. The laser apparatus for claim 6, wherein:
the laser projector is adapted to project substantially
cyan colored light with the blue light and the green light.

8. The 1aser apparatus of claim 1, wherein:
the laser projector projects purple, magenta, and deep honey.

9. The laser apparatus of claim 8, wherein:
collimation is retained in the laser beams, thus the spatial modulation is
preserved in the propagating laser beam producing infinite sharp dimensional colored
images.

10. The1aser apparatus of claim 9, further comprising:
means for at least partly suppressing visible speckle in a picture formed by said
laser light on a projection medium.

11. The1aser apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:
means for providing sharp high-bandwidth depth red,
green and blue computer-monitor signals from a computer;
wherein the projector serves as a high-color-fidelity computer monitor.

12. The1aser apparatus of claim 1 wherein:
the reflective light valve is controlled by light and control signals applied to the
reflective light valve from the camera captured images
wherein the reflective light valve is controlled by light and control signals from
film, slide images. transparencies. electronically based media and video, direct live
images, LCOS, OLED, DLP, and LED.

13. The1aser apparatus of claim 1, wherein the
reflective light valve is controlled by light and control signals of a multi-phase or multi-field imaging system.

14. The laser apparatus of claim 1, wherein the
reflective light valve is controlled by light and control signals from camera capture of a live image of a stage performer and is amplified on a big screen.

15. The laser apparatus of claim 1, wherein the
reflective light valve is controlled by signals from a live image or hologram optically
coupled, without electronic intermediary.

16. A laser apparatus of claim 1, wherein the reflective light valve is controlled by signals sent from one or more of the following devices: microscope, telescope, MRI, endoscope.

17. The laser apparatus of claim 1, wherein:
the light valve has a beam-modulation stage for impressing the desired image
onto the beam, and a control stage to control said impressing; and
the projector further comprises:
means for writing an image incrementally onto successive portions of the
control stage; and
means for directing the beam onto successive selected portions of the
modulation stage, and means for generally synchronizing the directing
means with the image-writing means.

18. The laser apparatus of claim 1, for wherein:
forming an image on an irregular projection medium having portions at distinctly
different distances from the projector wherein:
the light valve operates by introducing
at least partial disruption of the laser light coherence; and comprising
means for amplifying the camera picture onto such irregular projection
medium to form a dimensional image that appears substantially sharp on said portions
of distinctly different distances.

19. The laser apparatus of claim 1, wherein:
the beam delivers full spectrum colored dimension
images that amplify and correlate to the camera information,
and form moving pictures that automatically adjust to a shaped screen.

20. A laser projector system for forming amplified enhanced images with infinite sharp depth for laser
projection in curved space, said system comprising:
a camera having image enhancement capabilities;
a laser projector in communication with the camera for projecting a
spatial modulated full color picture beam that includes laser light;
the laser projector having a reflective light valve for impressing a sharp
image onto the beam;
means for scanning the beam across a face of the light valve during
projection of a spatial modulated picture beam.

21. A laser projector system of 20, wherein the laser projector is adapted to project the spatial modulated full color dimensional picture beam on convex or concave screens and CAVE;
at diverse distances from the projecting means; and the projecting means
displays a protracted show with sharp dimensional images on the one or more
projection media including interior or exterior staging scrims for opera, performance, TV stages,
CAVE, HIVE- holographic immersive virtual environments

22. The laser projector system of claim 20 wherein: the image is delivered to the camera through optically switched images or optically multi-dimensional imaging.

23. The laser projector system of claim 20 wherein: the camera is adapted to receive images from a microscope, telescope, endoscope, MIR, testing instrument.

24. The laser projector system of claim 20 wherein a direct image is transmitted to the laser projector by CID, CCD, MEMS, LED, DLP, LCOS, OLED,  or other device that provides imaging information.

25. A laser projector comprising:
a laser apparatus for projecting a picture beam;
a reflective light valve having a camera control stage that is addressed by low
power amplified-modulated lasers;
means to scan modulated lasers with multiple axis;
said laser projector has a beam- modulation stage for imprinting images onto
colored lasers, the laser color including having a wavelength of 635 nanometers or longer;
means to scan the colored beams retaining the infinite depth of sharpness of the
projected image;
wherein the laser beams are substantially parallel rays, and retain the inherent
polarization and collimation of the laser beam.

26. The laser projector of claim 25 further comprising means for scanning
collimated reading beams in sync with the writing information.

27. The laser projector of claim 25 having increased resolution:
wherein the reflective light valve has a writing control stage;
means to deliver multiple imaging defining devices; and
mean for combining the imaging defining devices to deliver imaging information