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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2000
Yasuhiro Takahashi, Tokyo, JP;
Akira Nishino, Tokyo, JP;
Yusuke Yoshida, Tokyo, JP;
Takeshi Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Sega Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
This invention was devised in order to create a favourable playing environment in a video game by automatically providing an optimum viewpoint without placing a burden on the player. In an image processing method whereby images, wherein the figure of a character and the figure of a peripheral landscape set in a virtual spatial coordinates system are viewed from a prescribed viewpoint, are generated, and image display signals corresponding to these images are output, there are provided: a viewpoint calculating step S for determining a second point on said peripheral landscape which is at a prescribed horizontal distance from a first point previously set inside the character; a line of sight calculating step S for determining the line of sight by linking the first point and the second point by means of a straight line; a viewpoint calculating step S , for setting as the viewpoint a point on the line of sight which is at a prescribed distance from the first point; and a drawing step S for obtaining an image viewed from this viewpoint.