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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2005
Howard Neely, Iii, Manhattan Beach, CA (US);
Jason Fox, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Mathias Kolsch, Pacific Grove, CA (US);
Matt Shomphe, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Jason Jarald, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Mike Daily, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Howard Neely, III, Manhattan Beach, CA (US);
Jason Fox, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Mathias Kolsch, Pacific Grove, CA (US);
Matt Shomphe, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Jason Jarald, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Mike Daily, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, CA (US);
Raytheon Systems, Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a system, method and computer program product for enabling user interaction with objects in a virtual environment independently of apparent virtual viewpoint altitude, by non-linearly scaling the virtual actuator. In doing so, the system receives a virtual-viewpoint position and a virtual actuator position from a virtual environment processing subsystem, and a real-viewpoint position and a real-actuator position from a real-world environment tracking subsystem. An xy-scale factor is then calculated based on the virtual-viewpoint position. A non-linear mapping is thereafter calculated between a real dataset and a virtual dataset based on the xy-scale-factor. The real dataset comprises the real-actuator position and the real-viewpoint position in the real-world environment, and the virtual dataset comprises the virtual-actuator position and the virtual-viewpoint position in the virtual environment.