发明名称 |
Method and system enabling users to interact, via mutually coupled terminals, by reference to a virtual space |
摘要 |
Users control the movement of avatars through a virtual space. The system keeps track of the location of the avatars and forms a picture of the virtual space for each user. Users can select themselves to act as a cameraman. The picture of the virtual space around the location of the avatar is then transmitted separately to passive viewers via a broadcast channel. Conversation between the cameraman and other users is broadcast also via the broadcast channel. The picture broadcast has a visual detail which is finer than that of the pictures received by the various users individually; movements are reproduced therein in interpolated form and are adapted in such a manner that the avatars in the broadcast signal arrive at landmarks, in time.
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申请公布号 |
US6323857(B1) |
申请公布日期 |
2001.11.27 |
申请号 |
US19970828468 |
申请日期 |
1997.03.28 |
申请人 |
U.S. PHILIPS CORPORATION |
发明人 |
MIELEKAMP PIETER M.;KETTLER ROBERT |
分类号 |
G06F15/16;G06F15/00;G06F19/00;G06T17/00;G06T17/40;H04M3/56;H04N7/15;(IPC1-7):G06T15/00 |
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G06F15/16 |
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