Title:
【発明の名称】モジュール式表示シミュレーター
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JPH06508222
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
A vehicle simulator has three video monitors which display three respective windows, i.e., sectors, of a simulated space. Each of the monitors is held in a respective housing, and each housing is mounted on the simulator. Also, a respective video controller is associated with each monitor, and each controller is mounted on the housing of the associated monitor. One of the controllers is a master controller which calculates a reference position representative of the position of the simulated vehicle in a simulated space, based upon user-generated control signals. A signal representing the reference position is transmitted from the master controller to the two slave controllers. Based upon the reference position, each of the controllers generates a video display of a predetermined sector of the simulated space and causes its associated monitor to present the predetermined sector. The sectors that are displayed on the monitors which are associated with the slave controllers are offset by a predetermined angular amount from the sector displayed by the monitor of the master controller, so that the sector displayed by each monitors is congruent with the physical position of its respective monitor. The predetermined sector calculated by each slave controller can be relatively easily changed by appropriately changing the value of the angular offset which is established for the controller.
Inventors:
Moncliffe, Rick, Elle.
Application Number:
JP50031093A
Publication Date:
September 14, 1994
Filing Date:
May 22, 1992
Export Citation:
Assignee:
Atari Games Corporation
International Classes:
G09B9/02; A63F13/00; A63F13/06; A63F13/08; G06T19/00; G09B9/05; G09B9/06; G09B9/30; G09B9/34; H04N7/18; (IPC1-7): G09B9/02; H04N7/18; G09G5/00; G09B9/34; G06F15/62; A63F9/22
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Tsutomu Toyama (4 others)