Patent ID: 8740391

Claim:
A projection system for providing a distributed manifestation within an environment, the projection system comprising: a data generator for generating a plurality of data sets, each of the data sets comprising spatial coordinate data and state data associated with the spatial coordinate data; a projector in communication with the data generator for receiving the data sets therefrom, the projector comprising: a signal generating module for generating a plurality of electromagnetic signals, each one of said electromagnetic signals being representative of the state data from at least one of said data sets; and a projecting module for projecting each of the electromagnetic signals for receipt at a target location within said environment corresponding to spatial coordinate data associated with state data represented by the electromagnetic signal; and a plurality of receiving units distributed within the environment, each receiving unit being operable to receive an electromagnetic signal from the projecting module, process the electromagnetic signal and express a state according to state data represented by the electromagnetic signal, the state expressed by each one of the receiving units depending at least in part on the target location at which the one receiving unit resides when the electromagnetic signal is received.