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Method and system for displaying stereoscopic detail-in-context presentations

US7088364B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateNov 7, 2002
Grant dateAug 8, 2006
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Expiry dateOct 27, 2023

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03C9/08
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A method for generating a stereoscopic presentation of a region-of-interest in a monoscopic information representation. The method includes the steps of: (a) selecting first and second viewpoints for the region-of-interest; (b) creating a lens surface having a predetermined lens surface shape for the region-of-interest, the lens surface having a plurality of polygonal surfaces constructed from a plurality of points sampled from the lens surface shape; (c) creating first and second transformed presentations by overlaying the representation on the lens surface and perspectively projecting the lens surface with the overlaid representation onto a plane spaced from the first and second viewpoints, respectively; and, (d) displaying the first and second transformed presentations on a display screen to generate the stereoscopic presentation.

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