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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 15, 1997
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
There is disclosed an apparatus for supporting an evaluation of equipment operability in which simulation equipment models of design object equipment or layout object equipment are arranged in a simulation space together with simulation body-shaped models patterned after humans who may operate the equipment, and the body-shaped models are moved within the simulation space so that an evaluation of operability of the layout object equipment is supported. A reference position of a body-shaped model to be arranged in the simulation space is defined in accordance with a basic posture of the body-shaped model. When the present model is changed to a body-shaped model which is different in the body form, the body-shaped model after an alteration is arranged in the simulation space so that the reference position coincides with the reference position before the alteration.