Patent ID: 6859569

Claim:
An information receiving/display apparatus configured to receive one of audio information and visual information and to receive one of olfactory information, gustatory information, and tactile information, comprising: an information display plane, wherein the information display plane presents the information; a plurality of optical fibers or optical waveguides having liquid cores for visual information; a plurality of fibers for information for another sensory information having liquid cores; a plurality of first control signal lines for visual information extending across said optical fibers or optical waveguides; a plurality of second control signal lines for said another sensory information extending across said fibers; first piezoelectric elements on outer circumferential surfaces of said optical fibers or optical waveguides at intersections between said optical fibers or optical waveguides and said first control signal lines; and second piezoelectric elements on outer circumferential surfaces of said fibers at intersections between said fibers and said second control signal lines, wherein the information display plane is configured to display image information by scattering light introduced into said cores from one end or opposite ends of selected one of said optical fibers or waveguides selected in response to image information to be displayed, by means of bubbles that are generated by cavitation brought about in a liquid forming said core by propagating ultrasonic waves from the outer circumferential surface of said optical fiber or optical waveguide by driving said first piezoelectric element at the intersection between selected said optical fiber or optical waveguide and one of said first control signal lines selected in response to said image information to be displayed, and leading out the scattered light externally, and wherein the information display plane is configured to form a projection or produce a temperature change on a surface of one of said fibers selected in response to said image information to be displayed, by propagating ultrasonic waves from the outer circumferential surface of selected said fiber by driving one of said second piezoelectric elements at the intersection between selected said fiber and one of one of said second control signal lines selected in response to said image information to be displayed, and/or, said liquid forming said liquid core or molecules of a substance contained in said liquid being emanated from the surface of one of said fibers selected in response to said image information to be displayed.