Patent ID: 9269186
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: G06T

Claim Text:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a visualization program that renders an internal organ and causes a computer to execute a process comprising: creating a three-dimensional model of the internal organ by setting a set of tetra elements, respective tetra elements being unstructured grid data; setting a designated area at an external surface of the three-dimensional model of the internal organ; generating a stereoscopic shape, along a plurality of normal vectors originating from the designated area, by pushing out the designated area a particular distance in a posterior direction of the three-dimensional model of the internal organ; identifying a tetra element group that overlaps the stereoscopic shape and a shape of the internal organ; changing a degree of transparency of the identified tetra element group; and rendering the shape of the internal organ to include the identified tetra element group for which the degree of transparency has been changed.