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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2018
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Shin Watanabe, Kanagawa, JP;
SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including: a position acquisition section configured to acquire a position of a first tetrahedron and a position of a second tetrahedron; a separational axis acquisition section configured to acquire a separational axis extending in a direction from the first tetrahedron to the second tetrahedron; a technique selection section configured to project a vertex of the first tetrahedron and a vertex of the second tetrahedron on the separational axis and select a calculation technique for a contact point on a basis of an order in which the projected vertex of the first tetrahedron and vertex of the second tetrahedron align on the separational axis; a contact point calculation section configured to calculate one or a plurality of contact points between the first tetrahedron and the second tetrahedron by the selected calculation technique; and an image drawing section configured to draw an image.