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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 24, 1998
Masayuki Ishikawa, Chiba, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Mismatch of types of input and output data are prevented when forming a routing operation to establish correspondence between nodes building a three-dimensional virtual space. In editing work, if a user sets a type of output data of field values of nodes on the output side, a routing editing tool lists the nodes which may receive that output data in one view. When the user selects one of the displayed nodes and tries to select names of fields of the selected node, the routing editing tool lists in the view only the names of fields of the type of input data which the field values of the selected node can receive. The routing editing tool thereby generates routing text described so as to allow transfer of an event between fields of nodes matching with the data type selected by the user.