Patent ID: 7839400
Filing Date: 2010-11-23
Classification: G02B,G06F,G06T

Abstract:
1. A graphical user interface (GUI) method of managing a physical volumetric display, comprising: creating a plurality of physical sub-volumes within the physical volumetric display; associating a process with each of the physical sub-volumes, wherein the associating uses a data structure comprising a root node and a physical sub-volume node linked to the root node, the sub-volume node comprising a volume parameter defining a three-dimensional boundary of the physical sub-volume and information identifying an application supplying output to the physical sub-volume and receiving input from the physical sub-volume; and applying display and control GUI operations directed to the physical sub-volumes and three-dimensional scenes, content and objects each viewable within the physical sub-volumes at all times from three-hundred and sixty degrees in all directions, certain scenes, content and objects interior to the physical sub-volumes only viewable and receiving operations based on a viewing angle responsive to non-opaque boundaries of the physical sub-volumes, the boundaries being both opaque and non-opaque, and limiting the operations to an interior of each of the physical sub-volumes to which the operations are directed.