Patent ID: 6351262
Filing Date: 2002-02-26
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
A method for use in processing a view of a three-dimensional world in which said world is represented by a first two-dimensional image for viewing objects located in a first portion of a plenoptic view of said world, and represented by a second two-dimensional image for viewing a second portion of the plenoptic view of said world, said second portion being the remaining portion of the plenoptic view of said world, comprising the steps of:determining the current user's viewpoint within the three-dimensional world, each of said first and second two-dimensional images being such that features closer to a predetermined point of the corresponding image are farther away from the user's viewpoint so as to give a portion thereof a vanishing point; distorting the first and second two-dimensional images so as to move the vanishing points of the portions of the corresponding two-dimensional images according to the current user's viewpoint, V; and as the user moves within the three-dimensional world, repeating the above step so as to limit discontinuities between said first and second two-dimensional images, and the computer graphics.