Patent ID: 7385600

Claim:
A method of creating a final image which, when displayed at a target location, is perceived by viewers as being three dimensional, comprising the steps of: (i) selecting a target location for the display at a display site and surveying the display site to identify and characterize light sources and objects which would result in visual highlights on a object displayed at the target location, the identified and characterized lights and objects employed in a computer animation system to light a model of the at least one object to be displayed; (ii) capturing video of at least one object to be displayed in the final image under a recreation of the characterized light sources and objects surveyed at the target location, the at least one object moving in the video at a necessary perceptual speed by one of translating generally along a plane extending through the eyes of expected viewers, rotating generally about an axis perpendicular to said plane, or a combination thereof and obtaining the captured video by rendering a video image of the at least one object in said computer animation system; (iii) displaying the final image at the site onto a transparent screen positioned such that the final image appears at the target location in front of a background and such that the movement of the at least one object at the perceptual speed occurs.