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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 12, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Junichi Nagahara, Tokyo, JP;
Toshikazu Minoshima, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345355 ; 345350 ; 345357 ;
Abstract
An on-line terminal device for displaying a virtual reality space based on the information purveyed by an on-line server. The on-line terminal device facilitates recognition of the position(s) in the virtual reality space and acquisition of the information in the virtual reality space. A guide picture representing the position information in the virtual reality space is pre-displayed in an iconized state on a display. On entry of data commanding the opening of the iconized guide picture, the guide picture is opened for representing the position information in the virtual reality space on the display.