Patent ID: 7030855

Claim:
A wearable pixelated apparel video-displaying system comprising: A. at least one apparel segment made entirely or in part of highly flexible pixelated material, said apparel segment(s) having a contiguous video-imaging surface comprised of a multitude of pixels capable of displaying standard video rate, video image content which is contiguous in appearance and which covers up to all of said surface of said segment(s), wherein, at least one of said apparel segment(s) is generally sized and shaped i. to the size and shape of an apparel segment typical of a conventional article of apparel; ii. to conform to a three-dimensional portion of a body; B. said segment having at least one side adjoining edge; C. said apparel having apparel attachment means for adjoining said at least one side adjoining edge(s) to a side adjoining edge of another apparel segment to form an apparel seam which provides for a substantially contiguous display of said video image content across said seam; D. said pixelated material is equipped with a communications link to communicate with at least one image-playback/image-control portable apparatus; E. said image-playback/image-control portable apparatus is equipped to playback display imagery content which is shaped in conformance with the size and the shape of said apparel segment(s); said portable apparatus comprising: i. at least one control circuit, ii. at least one intelligent controller, iii. at least one electronic power source, iv. at least one input/output interface means for receiving and sending said display imagery content, v. at least one display imagery content playback means, vi. a user interface means for a user to communicate with said portable apparatus and to control the playback of at least one source of display imagery content; and vii. intelligent controller software responsive to user input from said user interface means.