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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2001
Darrell J. Metcalf, Fillmore, CA (US);
Darrell J. Metcalf, Fillmore, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A wearable pixelated apparel video-displaying system is disclosed comprising at least one flexible lightweight pixelated material having a contiguous imaging surface comprised of a multitude of pixels capable of displaying typical video rate, video image content which is contiguous in appearance and which covers up to all of the surface. The apparatus is equipped to playback, control and display imagery according to the size and the shape of one or more pixelated material segments making up the video-displaying apparel. The apparatus has an input/output interface a digital media content playback device, a user interface means for a user to communicate with the apparatus and to control the playback of at least one source of video content. In one embodiment the pixelated-image displaying apparel is contiguously formed into a single garment. In a second embodiment a plurality of apparel segments are adjoined to one another by attachment, and are electronically coupled together.