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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2003
Marc H. Segan, New York, NY (US);
Richard Awad, New York, NY (US);
Marc H. Segan, New York, NY (US);
Richard Awad, New York, NY (US);
M.H. Segan Limited Partnership, Great Barrington, MA (US);
Abstract
An audio-visual display device for pictorial artwork is disclosed. The preferred embodiment has a universal backbox which contains a lightboard capable of lighting up any and/or all sections of a pictorial artwork placed above it, a hidden electric eye for detecting when the viewer wishes to see a snippet of an audio-visual sequence, a speaker, a memory for storing snippets of an audio sequence, and a microprocessor which receives signals from the electric eye and controls the speaker and the lightboard in accordance with an audio-visual sequence which brings to life the pictorial artwork.