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Title:
APPARATUS, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIEWING AND MANIPULATING A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2006023153
Kind Code:
A9
Abstract:
Components for generating, reviewing, processing, storing, retrieving, analyzing, and optimizing information input to or output from a virtual environment. The components may be a video camera component, a stand-alone or device mountable on a tripod to permit a camera person to select from one or more views within a virtual environment, such as a video game being executed, and to provide alternative views within the confines of the virtual environment. The component permits selection from multiple views and manipulation of the same, including a rotation leftward or rightward, a tilt upward or downward, a zooming inward or outward, a translation (for example, a track movement) leftward, rightward, forward, or backward, a rolling movement, and a camera position adjustment (for example, crane movement) upward or downward.

Inventors:
MACINTOSH DAVID (US)
GRAND JOSEPH (US)
MORELOCK DAVID (US)
Application Number:
PCT/US2005/024439
Publication Date:
July 27, 2006
Filing Date:
July 09, 2005
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Assignee:
GAMECASTER INC (US)
MACINTOSH DAVID (US)
GRAND JOSEPH (US)
MORELOCK DAVID (US)
International Classes:
G06T15/00
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