Manipulating Virtual Camera Dolly in Multi-Dimensional Space to Produce Visual Effect

• US 20190005146A1
• Filed: 03/21/2018
• Published: 01/03/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Amaze Software Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Famous Industries Incorporated (Famous Enterprises)
• Inventors: Lu, Mark H., Newcomb, Steven E., Maissey, Brian R., de Andrade, Andrew J.L.
• Application Number:
  US15/927,823
• Publication Number:
  US 20190005146A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object

Abstract

Various implementations for manipulating a virtual camera dolly in a multi-dimensional space to produce a visual effect are described. Content is rendered for display via a viewport. The viewport displays a virtual multi-dimensional space. A content movement input is received. A visual effect is determined to apply to the content based on the content movement input and a position of the content relative to a boundary associated with an anchor position in the multi-dimensional space. A virtual camera dolly is manipulated to produce the visual effect. The virtual camera dolly represents a viewing perspective for viewing the content via the viewport in the multi-dimensional space.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

rendering, using one or more computing devices, content for display via a viewport displaying a virtual multi-dimensional space;

receiving, using the one or more computing devices, a content movement input;

determining, using the one or more computing devices, a visual effect to apply to the content based on the content movement input and a position of the content relative to a boundary associated with an anchor position in the multi-dimensional space; and

manipulating, using the one or more computing devices, a virtual camera dolly to produce the visual effect, the virtual camera dolly representing a viewing perspective for viewing the content via the viewport in the multi-dimensional space.