US 12,231,835 B2
Visual display panels for integrated audiovisual systems
Erik Hockman, New York, NY (US); Alex Luthwaite, Lancaster, PA (US); and Emad Yacoub Hanna, Berlin (DE)
Assigned to Sphere Entertainment Group, LLC, New York, NY (US); and Holoplot GmbH, Berlin (DE)
Filed by Sphere Entertainment Group, LLC, New York, NY (US); and Holoplot GmbH, Berlin (DE)
Filed on Nov. 28, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/520,995.
Application 17/735,004 is a division of application No. 16/898,142, filed on Jun. 10, 2020, granted, now 11,375,305, issued on Jun. 28, 2022.
Application 18/520,995 is a continuation of application No. 17/735,004, filed on May 2, 2022, granted, now 11,843,906.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/859,930, filed on Jun. 11, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0137678 A1, Apr. 25, 2024
Int. Cl. H04R 1/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/147 (2006.01); H04R 1/40 (2006.01); H04R 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC H04R 1/028 (2013.01) [G06F 3/147 (2013.01); H04R 1/403 (2013.01); H04R 3/12 (2013.01); H04R 2201/403 (2013.01); H04R 2499/15 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A visual display for an integrated audio-visual system, the visual display comprising:
a first visual display panel from among a plurality of visual display panels, the first visual display panel comprising:
a plurality of visual emission elements situated along a first plurality of rows of visual emission elements and a first plurality of columns of visual emission elements, the plurality of visual emission elements being grouped into a plurality of first sets of visual emission elements, a plurality of second sets of visual emission elements, and a plurality of third sets of visual emission elements,
a plurality of openings, at least one opening from among the plurality of openings beginning between a corresponding first set of visual emission elements from among the plurality of first sets of visual emission elements and a corresponding second set of visual emission elements from among the plurality of second sets of visual emission elements, traversing along the corresponding second set of visual emission elements, and ending between the corresponding second set of visual elements and a corresponding third set of visual emission elements from among the plurality of third sets of visual emission elements,
wherein the corresponding first set of visual emission elements comprises adjacent visual emission elements along a corresponding first column among the first plurality of columns of visual emission elements,
wherein the corresponding third set of visual emission elements comprises adjacent visual emission elements along a corresponding second column among a second plurality of columns of visual emission elements, and
wherein the corresponding second set of visual emission elements comprises adjacent rows of visual emission elements among the first plurality of rows of visual emission elements situated between the corresponding first column and the corresponding second column; and
a second visual display panel from among the plurality of visual display panels, the first visual display panel and the second visual display panel being arranged along a first plurality of rows of visual display panels and a first plurality of columns of visual display panels to form the visual display.