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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Yakov Kamen, Cupertino, CA (US);
Leon Shirman, Redwood City, CA (US);
Assignee:
ISURFTV, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/720 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/720 ;
Abstract
A method in accordance with our invention permits the manipulation of a two-dimensional pixel array using a standard 3D graphics pipeline. The method comprises the steps of forming a wire mesh of the two-dimensional image. This wire mesh comprises a set of triangles, in which all of the vertices and sides of the triangles are located in the same plane in x, y, z coordinate space. The 2D image is then mapped into the mesh. The resulting object representation can then be manipulated in the same manner that 3D representations are manipulated by a 3D graphics pipeline.