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Title:
【発明の名称】3次元画像合成装置及び方法、情報記憶媒体、プログラム配信装置及び方法
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3366894
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To add gradation according to distance from a viewpoint to a display screen without remarkably increasing processing burden. SOLUTION: To which of the closest view 64, a close view 62, focus depth 60, a distant view 58 or the most distant view 56 each pixel belongs is decided based on Z value held in a Z buffer. Alpha values (depth range information) corresponding to depth ranges are set in respective pixels. Translucent composition of color information of each pixel is performed with color information of other pixels in forms corresponding to the alpha values. For example, the translucent composition is performed for an original image by shifting prescribed pixels to the left and right for the pixels belonging to the distant view 58 and the most distant view 56. In addition, the translucent composition is further performed to the original image by shifting up and down by prescribed pixels for the pixels belonging to the closet view 56.

Inventors:
Keiichi Ikeda
Michio Horikiri
Application Number:
JP2000093133A
Publication Date:
January 14, 2003
Filing Date:
March 30, 2000
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Assignee:
Konami Corporation
Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo Co., Ltd.
International Classes:
A63F13/55; G06T15/00; G06T15/02; G09G5/36; H04N5/262; H04N9/64; H04N13/04; H04N13/122; H04N13/156; H04N13/268; (IPC1-7): G06T15/00; A63F13/00; G09G5/36; H04N5/262; H04N9/64
Domestic Patent References:
JP2000132706A
JP10222694A
JP11242753A
JP2001175884A
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Yasutaka Iwamoto