Method and system for the visualization of three-dimensional objects

• US 20010030665A1
• Filed: 02/09/2001
• Published: 10/18/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Zimmermann, Norbert
• Original Assignee: Zimmermann, Norbert
• Inventors: Zimmermann, Norbert
• Application Number:
  US09/780,656
• Publication Number:
  US 20010030665A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/849
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and system for the visualization of three-dimensional objects via a network, wherein object data are made available to a visualizing station connected to the network and the object data are converted into a graphical representation of the objects by the visualizing station. It is provided in accordance with the invention that the object data are split into static data and dynamic data, that first the static data are made available to the visualizing station off-line and are stored there, that the dynamic data are transmitted respectively for visualization online via the network and are made available to the visualizing station and that the dynamic data and the static data are joined by the visualizing station and converted into the three-dimensional graphical representation of the objects.

Claims

1. A method for the visualization of three-dimensional objects via a network (2), wherein object data (3) are made available to a visualizing station (1) connected to the network and the object data are converted into a graphical representation of the objects by the visualizing station, characterized in that the object data (3) are split into static data and dynamic data, in that first the static data are made available to the visualizing station (1) and are stored there, in that the dynamic data are transmitted respectively for visualization via the network (2) and are made available to the visualizing station (1) and in that the dynamic data and the static data are joined by the visualizing station (1) and converted into the graphical representation of the object.

2. A method in accordance with the preceding claim, wherein the static data are transmitted to the visualizing station (1) off-line, in particular made available by means of a separate data medium (4) on which the static data are stored.

3. A method in accordance with one of the preceding claims, wherein position data, movement data and/or attribute data of the objects are transmitted as the dynamic data.

4. A method in accordance with one of the preceding claims, wherein the transmission of the dynamic data is controlled interactively by the visualizing station (1).

5. A system for the visualization of three-dimensional objects in accordance with the method in accordance with one of the preceding claims having a visualizing station (1) connectable to a network (2) for the conversion of object data (3) into a graphical representation of the objects, a memory device which stores a first part of the object data and is associated with the visualizing station (1), a transmission device to transmit a second part of the object data to the visualizing station (1) via the network (2), with the visualizing station (1) being designed such that it reads the first part of the object data (3) from the memory device, joins the first part and the second part of the object data (3) together and converts them into the graphical representation of the objects.

6. A system in accordance with the preceding claim, wherein the visualizing station (1) has a control device to control the transmission of the second part of the object data (3).