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Title:
DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING VIRTUAL OBJECT
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3423676
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a virtual object operating device and a virtual object operating method which can display a virtual object in a virtual world by three- dimensional computer graphics from an optional viewpoint in a state corresponding to the operation of an object in a real world.
SOLUTION: A three-dimensional position measuring instrument 2 measures the three-dimensional position of an object OB, a camera 5 photographs the marker MK of the object OB, an arithmetic processor 6 calculates the attitude of the object OB from the three-dimensional position of the object OB and the image of the marker MK and changes the display state of the virtual object in a virtual space in accordance with the three-dimensional position and attitude of the object OB.


Inventors:
Shoji Tanaka
Application Number:
JP2000218323A
Publication Date:
July 07, 2003
Filing Date:
July 19, 2000
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Assignee:
Canon Inc
International Classes:
G06F3/00; G06F3/01; G06F3/03; G06F3/033; G06F3/043; G06F3/0487; G06F3/038; G06T1/00; G06T7/60; (IPC1-7): G06T17/40; G06F3/00; G06F3/03; G06F3/033; G06T1/00
Other References:
手術ナビゲーションにおける光磁気ハイブリッド3次元センサの構築,電子情報通信学会論文誌D−II,日本,社団法人電子情報通信学会,2000年 1月25日,VOL.J83−D−2 NO.1,396−403
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Yasunori Otsuka