Mark Setteducati

6792707, Sep 21, 2004

Mar 14, 2001

09/808552

Mark Setteducati - New York City NY, 10003

G09F 1914

40453, 40725, 40900, 40219, 359831, 359834

First and second half or associated objects, in respective different sequential positions are aligned behind respective adjacent, first and second, inclined faces of an optical prism so that, when viewed at different angles alternately through a front face of the prism, images of the first and second half objects are seen alternately by transmission and total internal reflection at alternate faces, combining to form completed whole images of first and second objects alternatively, thereby providing an impression of animation by object movement. The half objects can be pictures of half of a same or similar face or person having respective different expressions producing a changing expression or hands producing a clapping effect. Written message portions associated with half objects can form a complete message/slogan when viewed at alternate angles. The optical prism can be solid or liquid filled and embodied in picture frames, domestic utensils or personal accessories/apparel.

6876976, Apr 5, 2005

May 30, 2000

09/583814

Mark Setteducati - New York City NY, US

G60F017/60

705 26

When merchandising magic tricks, a web site has a first information set with a motion picture of expert performance of each trick type and a second information set with graphical instructions for perfecting performance of each trick type. Tricks are supplied in a store, with either packaging or an adjacent advertising display for each different type of magic trick marked with first indicia including the web site address and a first key identifying the type of magic trick and visible to a customer prior to purchase so that the customer can access the web site for a demonstration of the trick prior to purchase. Second indicia for that type of trick and a second key, different from the first key, are concealed from the customer by the trick packaging so that a customer can access the instructions for perfecting performance only after purchasing the magic trick.

6934002, Aug 23, 2005

Nov 1, 2002

10/286596

Mark Setteducati - New York City NY, US

G03B019/18
H04N007/16

352133, 725138, 725139

An interactive system for motion picture display of a magic show has a remote information site, such as a television station or internet web site having one of a series of cameras for recording simultaneously different views of a same motion element of a live magic show from predetermined different camera angles and a (video) recording of different views of a magic show pre-recorded simultaneously by a series of cameras set at predetermined different camera angles and television or computer for accessing at least some of the different views locally by one of line and wireless means and operable by an individual member of an audience to switch channels to switch different views for display, alternatively, on a screen, during the magic show. A view access fee can be collected. The different views may be stored on a DVD/CD or hard drive.

6971880, Dec 6, 2005

Feb 8, 2002

10/071805

Mark Setteducati - New York City NY, US

G09B019/00
A63H033/38
B43L001/00

434 85, 434 97, 434408, 434415, 434428, 273155, 273153 S, 446149

A deformable drawing tablet in which contiguous longitudinal edge portions of a stack of individual elongate strips which are confined for relative sliding movement to form a drawing surface. A user can shift individual strips longitudinally to deform the drawing surface thereby distorting an image drawn or preprinted on the drawing surface. Longitudinal end portions of the strips form a lateral edge of the tablet so that the lateral edge can be formed into profiles of different characters by shifting the strips longitudinally to different relative positions. An edge forming die includes a stencil for drawing character features. The strips are clamped in a coplanar stack by a transverse locating post, extending through slots in the strips and secured at opposite ends to a cap and a base which house an eraser and a drawing implement, respectively.

6976678, Dec 20, 2005

Jan 8, 2002

10/042920

Mark Setteducati - New York City NY, US

A63F009/00

273153R, 273157 R, 40900

An amusement device has an image carrying substrate with a corrugated surface with a transverse mirror at a rear end and is marked with first and second sets of strip-like image fragments forming, respectively, first and second composite image components. Image fragments of the second set are both differently shaped, laterally inverted and arranged alternately along the image surface relative to image fragments of the first set so that the corrugations selectively expose image fragments of the first and second sets to the front, away from the reflecting surface, and to the rear, for reflection in the reflecting surface, so that the image fragments of first and second sets combine to form first and second image components, respectively, seen by viewing, simultaneously, directly from the front and by reflection so that first and second image components combine to provide a continuous composite image not readily predicted by a casual spectator.

7066820, Jun 27, 2006

Jan 30, 2004

10/768982

William L King - Tehachapi CA, US
Mark Setteducati - New York City NY, US
Robert Carignan - Cranston RI, US
Terry Chan - Kowloon, HK

A63J 21/00

472 69, 472 70, 446483, 446475

An illusion toy has a housing in which a blade is rotated in one direction too rapidly to be seen through 270 degrees between rest positions on respective opposite sides of an article receiving through hole, providing the illusion that the blade has rotated in an opposite direction across the through hole, through the article. An actuating lever for a blade rotating overcenter mechanism has a loop aligned with the through hole so that a trigger end of the lever can be visibly moved between opposite sides of the through hole in the same direction as the apparent movement of the blade. A hollow housing handle forms a candy dispensing store and connects to a delivery chute extending across the housing obscuring a radially outer portion of the blade path providing an impression that rotation of the blade in the one direction is blocked by candy.

8628087, Jan 14, 2014

Jul 5, 2011

13/176742

Kenneth C. Knowlton - Budd Lake NJ, US
Mark Setteducati - New York NY, US
Hiroshi Kondo - Tokyo, JP

A63F 9/10

273157R, 273153 R

A mosaic puzzle set has a predetermined number of pieces () with unique, directionally visible, identifiers and different brightness characteristics, three for grey scale and five for color, comprising average brightness(es), and direction and magnitude of brightness gradients, enabling assembly to copy any user selected target picture () by following a dedicated table/chart (). An internet server () storing piece characteristics and accessible for target picture upload and chart download by an access code in the purchased set, divides (S) the target picture () into a same number of data areas () as pieces, analyzes their brightness characteristics and assembles the chart () by provisionally assigning pieces to respective target areas () and exchanging them for each other when sums of respective mismatch values between pieces and respective target areas are thereby reduced (S-S). Alternatively, pieces are divisions of an iconic source picture or only screen images. Pieces in a humped brightness histogram, population distribution provide greater detail.

48545910, Aug 8, 1989

Feb 6, 1987

7/011965

Mark Setteducati - New York NY

A63F 912

273157R

A three-dimensional puzzle comprising puzzle elements and a reflective surface. In one embodiment, the puzzle elements comprise cubes having visual material thereon. When the cubes are correctly arranged on the reflective surface, the visible cube visual material and the reflection of the cube visual material form a composite image solution. In a second embodiment, the puzzle elements are in the form of relatively flat tiles having visual material on their major surfaces. When the tiles are correctly arranged on a flat surface adjacent the upstanding reflective surface, the visual material on the tiles and the reflection of the visual material combine to form a composite image.