Patent ID: 6633291
Filing Date: 2003-10-14
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
A method for displaying an image of an object including a first part and a second part, the method comprising:constructing a three-dimensional shape model by modeling a shape of the first part of the object in a virtual three-dimensional space; setting a view line direction toward the first part; constructing a two-dimensional image of the first part of the object when viewing the object from a predetermined direction by displaying the three-dimensional shape model after being rotated in accordance with the set view line direction and by adapting the three-dimensional shape model to a projected shape on a two-dimensional plane; constructing a two-dimensional image of the second part of the object when viewing the object from the predetermined direction by obtaining an image of the second part stored in relationship with the set view line direction from two-dimensional images of the second part of the object that were shot from plural directions and were stored in relationship with the plural directions in advance; combining the two-dimensional image of the first part with the two-dimensional image of the second part with aligning the axis of a two-dimensional image of the first part and the axis of a two-dimensional image of the second part so as to generate a combined two-dimensional image of the first and the second parts; and assigning the combined two-dimensional image to the three-dimensional shape model by assigning a first part image of the combined two-dimensional image to a plane including points of the three-dimensional shape model at a predetermined direction side.