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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 10, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
William Stephen Yerazunis, Belmont, MA (US);
Richard C Waters, Concord, MA (US);
Assignee:
Mitsubishi Electric Information Technology Center America, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345474 ;
Abstract
A system assures smooth motion in a distributed virtual reality environment y categorizing the information to be transmitted as to the predictability of future motion and applying appropriate smoothing algorithms based upon knowledge of what the future motion is likely to be. The system switches between a linear interpolation algorithm for less predictable data and a Catmull-Rom spline for more predictable data.