Patent ID: 7113183
Filing Date: 2006-09-26
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. A system for creating a composite 2-D image for use in a real-time interactive multimedia presentation, said system comprising: a display device operable to display said composite 2-D image; presentation data, wherein said presentation data includes a 3-D scene and a plurality of 3-D scene views; an input device operable to accept user input to modify said presentation data wherein the modifications to the presentation data includes modification to the graphical attributes of at least one of the plurality of 3-D scene views; a frame buffer operable to store said composite 2-D image for display to said display device; and a rendering engine operable to derive 2-D image data from said plurality of 3-D scene views and operable to blend said 2-D image data to create said composite 2-D image stored in said frame buffer, wherein said system is operable to repeatedly create a sequence of composite 2-D images in real-time, at a rate of greater than or equal to 5 frames per second.