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Three-dimensional display system

  • US 4,609,917 A
  • Filed: 09/19/1984
  • Issued: 09/02/1986
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/17/1983
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A display processing system for processing input information for use in displaying a three-dimensional image on a two-dimensional display means, said system comprisingmeans for successively receiving in any order input image information definding at least part of each of a plurality of geometric elements in a three-dimensional image;

  • andmeans for successively processing the received input image information with respect to each successive geometric element to determine the visible and non-visible portions thereof and to provide processed image information concerning the visible portions of each successive geometric element and for successively supplying said processed image information to a display means for successively displaying thereon the visible portions of each successive geometric element and for preventing the display of the non-visible portions of each successive geometric element so that the overall three-dimensional image is incrementally built up on the display means on a geometric element by geometric element basis.

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