Patent ID: 7873233

Claim:
A method of rendering an image that impinges upon a non-planar surface, said method comprising: mapping said image as a plurality of spaced-apart planar cells to surface coordinates of said non-planar surface, with each of said plurality of planar cells including multiple pixels of said image; and minimizing a distance between said plurality of planar cells while minimizing a change in distance between each of said plurality of planar cells with respect to said surface coordinates; and impinging said plurality of planar cells upon said non-planar surface, wherein mapping further includes associating pixels of said image with a plurality of polygons, each of which corresponds to one of said plurality of spaced-apart planar cells and includes multiple vertices having an initial spatial relationship and mapping said vertices to coordinates of said non-planar surface, producing mapped polygons and generating a matrix of distortions coefficients from the vertices of said mapped polygons, with said distortion coefficients defining a relative spatial relationship among said pixels upon said non-planar surface; producing, from said distortion matrix, an inverse matrix having a plurality of inverting coefficients associated therewith.