Interactive image editing
US6226000A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 4, 1997 |
| Grant date | May 1, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 4, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T15/04
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A 2-D image editor 23 is provided which can apply paint, texture, special effects such as fog and entourage, to a rendered 2-D image in proper perspective relative to the 3-D scene represented by the 2-D image. The image editor 23 determines the perspective on a pixel by pixel basis using a z-buffer which contains a depth value for each pixel in the 2-D image to be edited. The 2-D image may be created by a renderer 21 rendering a 3-D geometrical model output by a 3-D modelling unit 19.
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