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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2005
Filed:
May. 29, 2002
Atsushi Suzuki, Shibuya-ku, JP;
Takashi Nakamura, Shibuya-ku, JP;
Atsushi Suzuki, Shibuya-ku, JP;
Takashi Nakamura, Shibuya-ku, JP;
Konami Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In an image processing method to form a predetermined image with an image processing unit having a frame-buffer and z-buffer corresponded to the frame-buffer, a main-model and a sub-model containing at least one part of the main model are arranged at a predetermined position in a virtual 3-dimensional space. The sub-model is rendered in the frame-buffer in a write-protected state to the z-buffer, after that, the main-model is rendered in the frame-buffer in a released write-protected state to the z-buffer and updating a memory content of the z-buffer according to depth information that the main model has.
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