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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:
May. 15, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 20, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Shenchang Eric Chen, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
MGI Software Corporation, Richmond Hill, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/500 ;
Abstract
A method for preparing a presentation of a perspective view of a scene based upon an environment map representing the scene and having environment map indices, which presentation interactively displays viewing planes at any orientation, said viewing planes having scanlines, the method including generating a look-up table tabulating the environment map indices, the look-up table being characterized in that each of the scanlines of the viewing planes corresponds to information within a scanline of the look-up table, and storing the look-up table. A system is also described and claimed.