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Three-dimensional workspace interactive display having browsing viewpoints for navigation and work viewpoints for user-object interactive non-navigational work functions with automatic switching to browsing viewpoints upon completion of work functions

  • US 5,900,879 A
  • Filed: 04/28/1997
  • Issued: 05/04/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/28/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a data processor controlled display system for displaying a virtual three-dimensional workspace having a plurality of virtual viewer interactive three-dimensional objects therein,viewer interactive means for navigating within said workspace comprising:

  • means for providing to viewers viewpoints into said workspace,viewer interactive means for changing from one viewpoint to another,means for providing to viewers, work viewpoints from which viewers may interact with a three-dimensional object,means for providing to viewers, browsing viewpoints of such scope that viewers may readily select navigation paths to other viewpoints,means for determining whether viewers have completed said interaction at work viewpoints, andmeans responsive to said determining means for automatically providing to said viewer a selected browsing viewpoint upon the completion of said work viewpoint interaction.

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