A visual display assembly useful as an authentication or anti-counterfeiting element. The assembly includes a substrate and, on a surface of the substrate, an array of micro mirrors receiving ambient light. Each mirror includes a reflective surface to reflect the ambient light so as to display an image that appears to float in a plane, which is spaced a distance apart from the surface of the substrate. The image includes a plurality of pixels, and the array of micro mirrors includes for each of the pixels a set of the micro mirrors each having a reflective surface oriented to reflect the ambient light toward a point on the plane corresponding to one of the pixels. Each of the sets of the micro mirrors includes a plurality of the micro mirrors, and the reflected ambient light each set of micro mirrors intersects to illuminate or write a pixel of an image.

An apparatus integrating a zoetrope including a panel made of a transparent material and strips made of an opaque material that attach to the panel at equal distance from one another. The strips include a series of graduated images at the inner side of the panel. The series of images differ slightly and progressively from one to the next. The transparent panel and the strips present a zoetrope in which the transparent panel acts as slits allowing a user to view the images on the strips at the inner side of the panel, and the strips act as a series of segments obscuring the view of the inner side of the panel. The user rotates the panel at an appropriate speed to view the images alternatively through the transparent panel and obscure the images by the strips in rapid succession creating the perception of an animation of the images.

Using different deformation maps that have elements corresponding to respective pixels deriving from an original image and have low-spatial frequency components, the elements indicating a moving direction and a moving amount of the corresponding pixels, the pixels deriving from the original image are moved in a moving direction by a moving amount, the moving direction and the moving amount being specified by the elements corresponding to the respective pixels, and modulated images are obtained. The modulated images are separated into brightness components and color components to obtain brightness component images and color component images, brightness of brightness component images and/or color of color component images is modulated to obtain brightness-modulated image and/or color-modulated image, and a video is obtained, the video being configured by arranging integrated images obtained by integrating the obtained brightness-modulated images and/or color-modulated images.

Using different deformation maps that have elements corresponding to respective pixels deriving from an original image and have low-spatial frequency components, the elements indicating a moving direction and a moving amount of the corresponding pixels, the pixels deriving from the original image are moved in a moving direction by a moving amount, the moving direction and the moving amount being specified by the elements corresponding to the respective pixels, and modulated images are obtained. The modulated images are separated into brightness components and color components to obtain brightness component images and color component images, brightness of brightness component images and/or color of color component images is modulated to obtain brightness-modulated image and/or color-modulated image, and a video is obtained, the video being configured by arranging integrated images obtained by integrating the obtained brightness-modulated images and/or color-modulated images.

A video is superimposed on an object in order that the object will be perceived as if the object were given a motion. This video is a video including a luminance motion component corresponding to a motion given to the object.

A video is superimposed on an object in order that the object will be perceived as if the object were given a motion. This video is a video including a luminance motion component corresponding to a motion given to the object.

The color and the brightness of a transparent material perception to be given to an image are independently operated using simple image processing techniques. Using a plurality of different deformation maps that have elements corresponding to respective pixels deriving from an original image and have low-spatial frequency components, the elements indicating a moving direction and a moving amount of the corresponding pixels, the pixels deriving from the original image are moved in a moving direction by a moving amount, the moving direction and the moving amount being specified by the elements corresponding to the respective pixels, to obtain a plurality of modulated images. The plurality of modulated images are separated into brightness components and color components to obtain a plurality of brightness component images and color component images, brightness of the plurality of brightness component images and/or color of the plurality of color component images is modulated to obtain brightness-modulated image and/or color-modulated image, and a video is obtained, the video being configured by arranging a plurality of integrated images obtained by integrating the obtained brightness-modulated images and/or color-modulated images.

The color and the brightness of a transparent material perception to be given to an image are independently operated using simple image processing techniques. Using a plurality of different deformation maps that have elements corresponding to respective pixels deriving from an original image and have low-spatial frequency components, the elements indicating a moving direction and a moving amount of the corresponding pixels, the pixels deriving from the original image are moved in a moving direction by a moving amount, the moving direction and the moving amount being specified by the elements corresponding to the respective pixels, to obtain a plurality of modulated images. The plurality of modulated images are separated into brightness components and color components to obtain a plurality of brightness component images and color component images, brightness of the plurality of brightness component images and/or color of the plurality of color component images is modulated to obtain brightness-modulated image and/or color-modulated image, and a video is obtained, the video being configured by arranging a plurality of integrated images obtained by integrating the obtained brightness-modulated images and/or color-modulated images.

A video is superimposed on an object in order that the object will be perceived as if the object were given a motion. This video is a video including a luminance motion component corresponding to a motion given to the object.

A video is superimposed on an object in order that the object will be perceived as if the object were given a motion. This video is a video including a luminance motion component corresponding to a motion given to the object.