Patent ID: 6072478
Filing Date: 2000-06-06
Classification: A63F,G06T

Abstract:
An image producing and displaying system for producing a virtual world having a plurality of local spaces, developing a drama which occurs therein, in accordance with a previously prepared scenario, and imaging the drama to display the drama, said producing and displaying system comprising:a storage device for storing therein information which is necessary to construct said virtual world and also to cause said drama to progress;an information processing unit for causing said drama to progress in said plurality of local spaces constituting said virtual world on a common time base to all of the local spaces and imaging said drama based on said information stored in said storage device;a display device for displaying an image which has been produced in said information processing unit; andan input unit for specifying a local space to said information processing unit,said storage device storing individual data with respect to a plurality of characters which display human characteristics and are treated as virtual human beings, a plurality of set and properties which are treated as virtual objects and a plurality of local spaces, where said plurality of characters and said plurality of set and properties constituting said virtual world may be present, and storing scenario information for forming a story along which said drama is caused to progress in the entire virtual world, said plurality of characters, said plurality of set and properties and said plurality of local spaces being elements of said virtual world,said information processing unit including:progression managing means for reading out said scenario information to cause said drama to progress in the entire space of the virtual world in accordance with the scenario, andimage producing means for producing, by specifying at least one of said local spaces constituting said virtual world among the scenario information the progression of which is managed by said progression managing means, an image of said specified local space, and displaying the image of said specified local space on said display device.