WO2017111419A1 - Dispositif, siège et système permettant d'obtenir un effet environnemental - Google Patents

Dispositif, siège et système permettant d'obtenir un effet environnemental Download PDF

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WO2017111419A1
WO2017111419A1 PCT/KR2016/014915 KR2016014915W WO2017111419A1 WO 2017111419 A1 WO2017111419 A1 WO 2017111419A1 KR 2016014915 W KR2016014915 W KR 2016014915W WO 2017111419 A1 WO2017111419 A1 WO 2017111419A1
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Hyeong Min Kim
Ji Woong Byun
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    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47C—CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
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  • the present invention relates to a device for providing environmental effects, a chair having the device, and a system for controlling the device, and more particularly, to a device for providing environmental effects that includes a housing, one or more effect mechanisms disposed on the housing to provide the environmental effects according to control signals of an external device, and a communication unit disposed on the housing to receive the control signals of the external device, so that the device is detachably coupled to a portion of a chair to provide the environmental effects of the effect mechanisms.
  • 4D indicates 4D effects in which one element is added to 3D and thus provides physical effects (for example, vibrations and motions of theater chairs, strobe lights, odor dispersion, water drop injection and so on) together with movie, thereby delivering a high degree of reality to theater customers.
  • the 4D effects do not necessarily accompany the stereoscopic 3D video, and the 4D movie is made with general video, not the stereoscopic 3D video. If the general video is played at 4D equipment, however, the 4D effects are provided by combining the physical effects with the general video. Accordingly, the biggest feature of the 4D technology is to provide a variety of physical effects as well as video for the theater customers.
  • such 4D effects include fog injection, wind injection, smell injection, special lighting and the like, which are called 'environmental effects'.
  • battens are installed on the upper portions of both side wall surfaces of a theater, and effect mechanisms for providing the environmental effects are mounted on the battens to provide the environmental effects to chairs of the theater.
  • the present invention is suggested to provide uniform environmental effects for the theater customers, while being miniaturized even though effect mechanisms providing various environmental effects are disposed thereon, and accordingly, the present invention is proposed to satisfy the above-mentioned technical demands and to provide additional technical elements not easily invented by a person skilled in the art.
  • the present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems occurring in the prior art, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a device for providing environmental effects that is capable of providing uniform environment effects for theater customers, irrespective of the positions of chairs.
  • the technical problems to be solved by the present invention may be not limited as the above-mentioned problems, and various technical problems can be derived from the description as will be discussed hereinafter within the technical scope of the invention which is obvious to those skilled in the art.
  • a device for providing environmental effects including: a housing; one or more effect mechanisms disposed on the housing to provide the environmental effects according to control signals of an external device; and a communication unit disposed on the housing to receive the control signals of the external device, wherein the device is detachably coupled to a portion of a chair to provide the environmental effects of the effect mechanisms.
  • the device further includes coupling members for coupling the housing to an arm rest of the chair.
  • the housing is coupled to the chair in such manner as to be rotatable around one end thereof.
  • the housing is coupled to the chair in such manner as to allow one end and the other end thereof to be detachably coupled to the left and right arm rests of the chair.
  • the housing is coupled to the portion of the chair and serves as the arm rest for supporting a user's arm thereagainst.
  • the device when the device is coupled to the portion of the chair, power is supplied from the chair.
  • the device further includes a power unit for storing power, the power unit being charged from the outside to allow the device to be available while having no external power supply.
  • the effect mechanisms include at least one or more modules selected from fan modules, strobe modules, fog production module, and color lighting modules.
  • the device further includes a switch unit disposed on the housing to turn on/off the effect mechanisms.
  • a chair for providing environmental effects including: a seat in which a user sits; arm rests for supporting the user's arms; and a device for providing the environmental effects, the device having one or more effect mechanisms for providing the environmental effects according to control signals of an external device and a communication unit for receiving the control signals of the external device, wherein the device is disposed on each arm rest or detachably coupled to each arm rest to provide the environmental effects of the effect mechanisms.
  • the device for providing the environmental effects is coupled to each arm rest in such manner as to be rotatable around one end thereof.
  • the device for providing the environmental effects is coupled to the chair in such manner as to allow one end and the other end thereof to be detachably coupled to the left and right arm rests of the chair.
  • the device for providing the environmental effects is disposed on the arm rest, the device serves as the arm rest for supporting the user's arm, while at the same time providing the environmental effects.
  • the chair further includes a first power unit for supplying power to the device for providing the environmental effects, so that if the device for providing the environmental effects is coupled to the arm rest, the device receives the power from the first power unit.
  • the device for providing the environmental effects further includes a second power unit for storing power therein, the second power unit being charged from the outside to allow the device to be available while having no external power supply.
  • the effect mechanisms include at least one or more modules selected from fan modules, strobe modules, fog production module, and color lighting modules.
  • the device for providing the environmental effects further includes a switch unit disposed on the housing to turn on/off the effect mechanisms.
  • a system for providing environmental effects including: a device for providing the environmental effects, the device having a housing detachably coupled to a portion of a chair, one or more effect mechanisms for providing the environmental effects according to control signals of an external device, and a communication unit disposed on the housing to receive the control signals of the external device; and a theater server for producing the control signals controlling the effect mechanisms disposed on the device to transmit the control signals to the effect mechanisms.
  • the device for providing the environmental effects is formed as an arm rest of the chair or detachably coupled to the arm rest of the chair to provide the environmental effects of the effect mechanisms.
  • the theater server stores control data in which the control signals synchronized with the playing time of a special content are sequentially arranged and transmits the control signals synchronized with the playing time to the effect mechanisms as the content is played to control the whole or portion of the effect mechanisms.
  • the device for providing environmental effects is capable of providing uniform environment effects for theater customers, irrespective of the positions of chairs.
  • the device for providing environmental effects is capable of providing the environmental effects even with an existing general chair, while being just detachably coupled to the chair.
  • the device for providing environmental effects is capable of being easily removed from a chair when exchanged, thereby conducting maintenance in a simple manner.
  • the device for providing environmental effects is capable of additionally providing a switch unit for effect mechanisms, thereby allowing a customer to directly control the environmental effects not desired by him or her.
  • FIG.1 is a schematic view showing effect mechanisms for providing environmental effects in an existing theater, wherein the effect mechanisms are mounted on battens to provide the environmental effects to chairs.
  • FIGS.2 and 3 are back and front views showing the structure of a device for providing environmental effects according to the present invention.
  • FIG.4 is a top view showing a switch unit of the device for providing environmental effects according to the present invention.
  • FIGS.5 and 6 are side and front views showing a chair for providing environmental effects according to the present invention, wherein the chair is coupled to the device for providing environmental effects.
  • FIG.7 is a front view showing the chair for providing environmental effects according to the present invention, wherein the device for providing environmental effects is rotatably coupled to the chair.
  • FIG.8 is a front view showing the chair for providing environmental effects according to the present invention, wherein the device for providing environmental effects is coupled to both side arm rests of the chair.
  • the expressions such as “the first” and “the second”, are used to only distinguish a plurality of elements and do not limit a sequence or other characteristics between the elements.
  • FIG.1 is a schematic view showing effect mechanisms for providing environmental effects in an existing theater, wherein the effect mechanisms are mounted on battens to provide the environmental effects to chairs.
  • battens are installed on the upper portions of both side wall surfaces of an existing theater, and effect mechanisms for providing environmental effects are mounted on the battens to provide the environmental effects to chairs of the theater.
  • the present invention is suggested to solve the above-mentioned problems.
  • the term 'environmental effects' as used herein is for the purpose of providing a high degree of reality for theater customers so that environments similar to the video of the content played at the theater are built to stimulate the five senses of the customers.
  • the environmental effects include fog spraying, wind spraying, smell spraying, special lighting and so on.
  • one or more effect mechanisms for providing such environmental effects are disposed on portions of chairs disposed in the theater, thereby solving the above-mentioned problems in the existing theater.
  • FIGS.2 and 3 are back and front views showing the structure of a device for providing environmental effects according to the present invention.
  • a device 100 for providing environmental effects includes a housing, one or more effect mechanisms for providing the environmental effects according to control signals of an external device, and a communication unit 120 disposed on the housing to receive the control signals of the external device, wherein the device 100 is detachably coupled to a portion of a chair to provide the environmental effects of the effect mechanisms.
  • the housing is detachably coupled to a portion of the chair at the theater and includes the components of the device 100 in the interior, exterior, or outer surface thereof.
  • the effect mechanisms for providing environmental effects are disposed above the both side wall surface of the theater, so that the environmental effects cannot be uniformly provided for the customers and it is also difficult to exchange and repair the effect mechanisms.
  • the device 100 for providing the environment effects which includes the effect mechanisms, is coupled to a portion of the chair, so that the environmental effects can be uniformly provided for each customer and the device can be easily coupled to a general chair. If the device 100 does not work, further, it is just removed from the chair and exchanged with new one, thereby allowing the operation of the theater to be efficiently kept, without stopping the operation of the chair.
  • the effect mechanisms serve to provide effects for stimulating a user's five senses together with the content provided from the theater. That is, the effect mechanisms provide various effects such as fog spraying, wind spraying, smell spraying, special lighting and so on. Moreover, the effect mechanisms are desirably controlled synchronized with the playing time of the content of the theater. At this time, the control signals are received from the external device, and the external device has or stores control data in which the control signals synchronized with the playing time of a special content are sequentially arranged and transmits the control signals synchronized with the playing time to the effect mechanisms as the content is played.
  • the external device is formed of various control means connected wiredly or wirelessly to the device 100 of the present invention and includes a theater server for controlling the playing of the content of the theater and controlling the effect mechanisms of the device 100 for providing the environmental effects.
  • the effect mechanisms of the device 100 include at least one or more modules selected from fan modules 111 for producing wind through air injection using a low noise motor fan and also providing smell effects through the injection of air together with smells, strobe modules 112 for producing regular flashes of light, fog production modules 113 provided by miniaturizing an existing fog machine to produce fog, and color lighting modules 114 for producing lighting effects operated cooperatively with the content using color LEDs.
  • the fan modules 111, the strobe modules 112, the fog production modules 113 and the color lighting modules 114 are disposed on the housing of the device 100, without any limitation in their position, and they are located at various positions according to the structure of the device 100, thereby providing a variety of effects.
  • the color lighting modules 114 and the fog production modules 113 are at the same time used to produce color fog.
  • the device 100 of the present invention further includes supply units for supplying water, smell, air pressure and so on, which are injected through the effect mechanisms.
  • the communication unit 120 receives the control signals of the external device wiredly or wirelessly. Accordingly, the communication unit 120 receives the control signals of the external device and transmits the control signals to the effect mechanisms disposed on the housing, so that the communication unit 120 indirectly controls the effect mechanisms. At this time, the communication unit 120 may be disposed on a single special effect generation mechanism coupled to a backrest, or it may be separately disposed from the housing. Otherwise, while it is being connected to the effect mechanisms provided on at least one or more housings, it transmits the control signals to them. Accordingly, the present invention can have a component cost more reduced than the existing device in which communication units are provided for the respective effect mechanisms.
  • the device 100 according to the present invention further includes a power unit (not shown) separately disposed from the housing to supply power to the effect mechanisms provided on at least one or more housings, so that the present invention can have a component cost more reduced than the existing structure in which power units are provided for the respective mechanisms.
  • a power unit (not shown) separately disposed from the housing to supply power to the effect mechanisms provided on at least one or more housings, so that the present invention can have a component cost more reduced than the existing structure in which power units are provided for the respective mechanisms.
  • the device 100 further includes a power unit 140 for storing power in the interior thereof, and the power unit 140 is charged from the outside to allow the device 100 to be available even when external power is not supplied.
  • the device 100 further includes coupling members 130 for coupling the housing to an arm rest 30 of a chair.
  • the coupling members 130 are formed of coupling means like bolts and nuts, and in addition to the coupling means, they may be formed of various means capable of detachably coupling the housing to the arm rest 30 of the chair. If the device 100 of the present invention does not work, accordingly, it is removed from the arm rest 30 of the chair through the separation of the coupling members 130, thereby maintaining the operation of the theater chair and further repairing the effect mechanisms with ease.
  • the device 100 of the present invention further includes a switch unit 150 for turning on/off the respective effect mechanisms, as shown in FIG.4.
  • the formation of the switch unit 150 is needed because some special effects make a user feel unpleasant according to his or her preference. Accordingly, the user can turn off the special effects not desired by him or her through the switch unit 150, thereby enjoying the movie in more pleasant environments.
  • FIGS.5 and 6 are side and front views showing a chair for providing environmental effects according to the present invention, wherein the chair is coupled to a device for providing environmental effects 100.
  • a chair for providing environmental effects includes a seat 10 in which a user sits, a backrest 20 for supporting the user's back, arm rests 30 for supporting the user's arms, and a device 100 for providing the environmental effects, the device 100 having one or more effect mechanisms for providing the environmental effects according to control signals of an external device and a communication unit 120 disposed on the housing to receive the control signals of the external device, wherein the device 100 is detachably coupled to each arm rest 30 to provide the environmental effects of the effect mechanisms.
  • the effect mechanisms and the communication unit 120 of the device 100 for providing the environmental effects are desirably disposed on a housing.
  • coupling members 130 are disposed on the arm rests 30 of the chair so as to couple the housing to the arm rests 30, but the device 100 of the present invention may be coupled directly to each arm rest 30, without having any coupling members 130.
  • the device 100 of the present invention can be shaft-coupled rotatably to the arm rest 30 around one end thereof. This can avoid the reduction of space caused by the coupling between the device 100 and the arm rest 30, thereby ensuring an appropriate seat space.
  • the device 100 of the present invention is configured to have one end and the other end detachably coupled to the left arm rest 30 and the right arm rest 30. Accordingly, the device 100 of the present invention is held directly by the customer before enters the theater, and after sitting, the device 100 is coupled to the left and right arm rests 30, respectively.
  • the chair for providing the environmental effects further includes a power unit for supplying power to the device 100 for providing the environmental effects, and if the device 100 is coupled to a portion of the chair, accordingly, the power is supplied from the chair for providing the environmental effects.
  • the device 100 for providing the environmental effects is coupled to the arm rest 30, but may be coupled to other portions of the chair, while being not limited thereto.
  • the device 100 for providing the environmental effects includes a power unit 140 for storing power in the interior thereof, and the power unit 140 is charged from the outside to allow the device 100 to be available even when external power is not supplied.
  • a system for providing environmental effects includes a device 100 for providing the environmental effects, the device 100 having a housing detachably coupled to a portion of a chair, one or more effect mechanisms for providing the environmental effects according to control signals of an external device, and a communication unit 120 disposed on the housing to receive the control signals of the external device, and a theater server for producing the control signals controlling the effect mechanisms disposed on the device 100 to transmit the control signals to the effect mechanisms.
  • the device 100 is detachably coupled to an arm rest 30 of the chair to provide the environmental effects of the effect mechanisms. Accordingly, the effect mechanisms of the device 100 of the present invention are coupled to a portion of the chair, so that the environmental effects can be uniformly provided for each customer and the device can be easily coupled even to a general chair. If the device 100 does not work, further, it is just removed from the chair and exchanged with new one, thereby allowing the operation of the theater to be efficiently kept, without stopping the operation of the chair.
  • the theater server controls playing of the content of the theater and also controls the effect mechanisms of the device 100 of the present invention.
  • the theater server stores control data in which the control signals synchronized with the playing time of the special content are sequentially arranged and transmits the control signals synchronized with the playing time to the effect mechanisms as the content is played so as to control the whole or portion of the effect mechanisms. Accordingly, the effect mechanisms disposed on the device 100 of the present invention are controlled synchronized with the playing time of the content.
  • the theater server transmits the control signals synchronized with the playing time of the special content to a special effect generation mechanism coupled to the backrest, and at this time, the control signals can be transmitted through a wire or wireless network to the special effect generation mechanism coupled to the backrest. Otherwise, the control signals may be transmitted through the connection to a recording medium like a USB.

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La présente invention concerne un dispositif permettant de fournir des effets environnementaux, un siège équipé de ce dispositif et un système de commande de ce dispositif et plus particulièrement, un dispositif de fourniture d'effets environnementaux qui comprend un boîtier, un ou plusieurs mécanismes d'effets disposés sur le boîtier pour fournir les effets environnementaux en fonction de signaux de commande d'un dispositif externe, et une unité de communication disposée sur le boîtier de manière à recevoir les signaux de commande du dispositif externe, de telle sorte que le dispositif est couplé de manière amovible à une partie d'un siège pour fournir les effets environnementaux des mécanismes d'effets. Selon la présente invention, le dispositif pour fournir des effets environnementaux permet d'obtenir des effets d'environnement uniformes pour des clients de théâtres, indépendamment des positions des sièges, et permet de fournir les effets environnementaux même avec un siège existant, tout en étant simplement couplé de manière détachable au siège.
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