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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2001
Kentaro Nagayama, Osaka, JP;
Masahiro Kiyomoto, Yawata, JP;
Kentaro Nagayama, Osaka, JP;
Masahiro Kiyomoto, Yawata, JP;
Konami Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To achieve a display across a broad display area, without losing polygons projected towards the foreground of the screen, in particular. An image display control device divides a virtual three-dimensional space consisting of a plurality of three-dimensional models into a grid shape, stores the image data for the three-dimensional models in each block thus divided in a display memory, and stores the three-dimensional models in the field of view of a virtual camera positioned in the virtual three-dimensional space in a display memory of a RAM, whereupon the three-dimensional models are displayed on a monitor. The display control device has a block identifying sectionfor identifying the block where the virtual camera is positioned; a block selecting sectionfor selecting five mutually adjoining blocks from the blocks adjoining the periphery of the identified block, on the basis of the position information and line of sight direction information for the virtual camera; and an image processorfor transferring the image data for the three-dimensional models in the identified block and selected blocks to the display area of the RAM