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Laser beams up sign
It was just a matter of time before laser projection evolved as a fully developed sign package, which is now being introduced by LFI International of Bellevue, Washington. The company describes its product as a Dynamic Laser Signage
(DLS) system composed of very small diode lasers in the classic red, green and blue color modes. The complete sign package includes the lasers, a computer, a WiFi connection and a USB port, essential optics and scanning mechanisms which projects the final laser beam message onto a translucent sign face. As for safety concerns, the laser package is totally enclosed within the sign cabinet and the sign observer has no direct viewing contact with the laser beam. The sign content is dynamic and advertising messages are constantly being updated with a continuing flow of text and graphics to suit each message theme.
LFI's laser display system is very versatile and can be developed into a number of sign packages depending on how and where the system will be installed. To date LFI envisions its sign package in many applications including point of purchase stand-alone displays and overhead aisle displays in supermarkets and big box merchandise stores. Other possibilities also include kiosk screens, slot toppers in gaming casinos and even taxi toppers for cabs. Furthermore DLS can be integrated into a sign network where multiple displays would be installed in a retail setting, a transit terminal or sport stadium setting.
The company's heritage goes back to its former incarnation as Laser Fantasy International when it provided laser lighting effects for rock & roll shows and stand alone light show music concerts. In those helicon days Laser Fantasy demonstrated its illuminated presence everywhere from the front of the Grand Coulee Dam (Coulee, WA) to Glitter Gulch in Las Vegas for varying nightclub and music acts. With 28 years of being a market leader in presenting entertainment laser light shows and designing unique highly sophisticated laser projection systems, the company has leveraged these resources to create the Digital Laser Signage as a new process for laser-based indoor/outdoor sign presentation systems.
Thus enters the laser beam as the next stage viewing format for sign displays and advertising applications. Laser beams are super bright beams of light that just about every one has seen from laser pointers to the gleaming insides of supermarket check out scanners. Within the DLS system, its laser beams rapidly and continuously display a stylized very bright line drawing of artwork and text whose screen face is viewable at any angle. Visually, the display can be thought of as a high-tech full motion animated neon sign. The LFI DLS system has been packaged into four stand alone sign cabinets including a standard sign face (two feet by three feet by six inches depth), a min-marquee (ten inches high by three feet long), an end-cap grocery display and a ten inch by eighteen inch diameter dome display. |
