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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 1990
Filed:
Oct. 14, 1986
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A display system comprising: display apparatus; a first apparatus for producing a depth value signal and a normal direction signal for each of those display pixels, included in a two-dimensional graphic obtained when a three-dimensional graphic to be displayed is projected on a two-dimensional plane, among the pixels constituting a display screen on the display device, a second apparatus connected to the first apparatus and responsive to each of the depth value signals for producing a first reflection light intensity signal for each display pixel, a third apparatus connected with the first apparatus and responsive to each of the normal direction signals produced from the first apparatus for producing a second reflection light intensity signal for each display pixel, and a fourth apparatus, connected to the display device, the second apparatus and third apparatus and responsive to the first and second reflection light intensity signals for each display pixel for controlling a reflection light intensity signal for each of the plurality of display pixels to be sent to said display device.