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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 1997
Filed:
Feb. 15, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gerhardt Paul Otto, Guildford, GB;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345421 ;
Abstract
The generation of rendering order lists, trees or directed graphs is performed as a pre-process for an interactive three-dimensional graphics system. Notional viewing axes are selected and a rendering order list, tree or directed graph is produced for each of these axes. Viewable directions for a particular list, tree or graph are defined as a viewable region and the size of said region is extended to take account of the field of view of the viewer.