Patent ID: 7940371

Claim:
A visual display assembly for creating an interactive three dimensional (3D) animated display for a viewer, comprising: a projection element comprising a plurality of images; a positioning assembly moving the projection element through a number of positions; a position determination assembly determining a present one of the positions for the projection element, wherein each of the positions corresponds to one of the images; a light source for projecting light onto a surface of the projection element; an input interface receiving input from the viewer and outputting a viewer input signal; a controller periodically operating the light source to illuminate the projection element in response to the viewer input signal and based on the determined position of the projection element, wherein an object is projected corresponding to one of the images linked to the viewer input signal by the controller, wherein the viewer input signal comprises an audio signal, wherein the controller comprises a volume detector detecting a volume level of the audio signal, wherein each of images is linked with a range of volume levels, and wherein the controller selects the image to illuminate with the light source from the plurality of images based upon the determined volume level and the linking to the determined volume level.