Patent ID: 6466239
Filing Date: 2002-10-15
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
An apparatus for processing graphic data in a virtual reality environment, the apparatus comprising:a display device; graphical user interface (GUI) means for displaying, on the display device in a form of a window, image data for preparing virtual reality modeling language (VRML) content of a three-dimensional (3D) virtual space; window means including (A) a conductor window and (B) a 3D perspective view window; editing means for editing image data displayed in the 3D perspective view window by instructing an operation in the conductor window to produce graphic data of an object in the 3D virtual space, a script and an interaction program thereof; scene graph database means for storing the edited data, for managing the stored edited data, and for providing the stored edited data to the editing means; working tool means for confirming produced content and for producing VRML content, the scene graph database means providing stored edited data to the working tool means; and a script preparation means for compiling, and for confirming the operation and debugging of, the script produced by the editing means.