Patent ID: 6476819
Filing Date: 2002-11-05
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
A picture processing apparatus wherein a plurality of 2-dimensional pictures with shrinkage factors different from each other are stored in a memory, one of said 2-dimensional pictures is selected from said memory in accordance with contents of a multidimensional figure to be pasted on said multidimensional figure and said multidimensional figure with said selected 2-dimensional picture pasted thereon is mapped onto a first 2-dimensional coordinate system, said picture processing apparatus comprising:a displacement computing means for computing a plurality of displacements of said 2-dimensional picture on a second 2-dimensional coordinate system prescribing said 2-dimensional picture from multidimensional coordinates of a point inside a polygon constituting said multidimensional figure and a plurality of unit displacements of said point inside said polygon on said first 2-dimensional coordinate system onto which said polygon is mapped; a displacement adjusting means for adjusting said computed displacements of said 2-dimensional picture independently of each other by multiplying said computed displacements by coefficients to determine a plurality of adjusted displacements; and a shrinkage-factor computing means for computing a lod associated with a shrinkage factor of said 2-dimensional picture to be pasted on said multidimensional figure from said adjusted displacements of said 2-dimensional picture.