Patent Document ID: 5563988
Application ID: 08284038
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A system for facilitating real-time interaction between a user and a digitally represented visual environment within which the user's moving image is integrated, the system comprising: a. imaging means for digitizing, into an array of multichromatic pixels, the full-body pictorial image of a user and a background, the user being physically displaced from the imaging means by a depthwise distance; b. an isolator for separating the user's image from the background; c. wireless means for ascertaining the depthwise distance between the user and the imaging means; d. means for generating a visual display showing objects; e. an integrator for introducing the user's digitized image into the visual display such that the user's image occludes any overlapping objects having depth parameters greater than the user's depthwise distance, and is occluded by any overlapping objects having depth parameters less than the user's depthwise distance.