WESLEY EUGENE SCHLENKER
Pilots at Knott Pl, Dallas, TX

6459076, Oct 1, 2002

Jan 28, 2000

09/494014

Wesley E. Schlenker - Dallas TX 75208

H04N 718

250205, 2502081, 348122, 472 61

An object uses light transmitters to control the visible image of the object in order to camouflage the object or to otherwise deceive the vision of observers. The color and intensity of the light emitted from the object is determined by its background, which would otherwise provide a contrast with the object when viewed by an observer. Light sensors uptake the color and intensity of the objects background and pass that information to controllers that determine the color and intensity of light to be transmitted to achieve the desired camouflage effect, and pass the output color to the light transmitters on the opposite side of the object. Transmitters may be placed on the object at right angles to the surface of the object, thereby allowing for only a single color shading at any point on the object, and providing effective camouflage for the object only when viewed straight-on or against a background that does not vary when viewed from oblique viewing angles. Alternatively, the light transmitters may have narrowly-focused beams and may instead be placed at various oblique angles which allow the object to be perceived as having different color shadings, at the same point on the object, when observed from different viewpoints. This allows any surface of the object to be camouflaged against any of its backgrounds as seen from multiple different viewing angles.