Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display driving control circuitry – Controlling the condition of display elements
Patent
1997-09-29
1999-07-20
Bayerl, Raymond J.
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Display driving control circuitry
Controlling the condition of display elements
345419, 345331, 345145, 345332, 707513, G06F 314, G06T 1700
Patent
active
059261790
ABSTRACT:
To allow a user to quickly and surely recognize whether an object is chat-enabled or not. A pointer is displayed on a three-dimensional virtual reality space image and, when the pointer is placed onto any of objects displayed in the three-dimensional virtual reality space image to specify the pointed object, it is determined whether that object is chat-enable based on the attribute information thereof. If the object is found chat-enabled, the pointer having a normal shape of an arrow is changed to a pointer 201a having a shape resembling a human face. This novel constitution allows a user to intuitively understand whether each of the objects displayed in the three-dimensional virtual reality space is chat-enabled or not.
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Hiei Futoshi
Matsuda Satoru
Nashida Tatsushi
Bayerl Raymond J.
Nguyen Thomas T.
Sony Corporation
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