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Viewer interactive three-dimensional workspace with interactive three-dimensional objects and corresponding two-dimensional images of objects in an interactive two-dimensional workplane

  • US 5,923,324 A
  • Filed: 04/04/1997
  • Issued: 07/13/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/04/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A data processor controlled display system for simultaneous interactive accessing of three-dimensional objects and two-dimensional image representations of such objects in a virtual three-dimensional workspace comprising:

  • means for displaying a plurality of virtual three-dimensional objects in and environmentally associated with said virtual workspace;

    means for storing for each of said virtual objects, at least one planar two-dimensional image of said virtual object;

    user interactive means for functionally accessing said three-dimensional objects;

    means for displaying a two-dimensional user-interactive workplane within said three-dimensional workspace;

    user interactive means for selecting at least one of said virtual objects;

    means responsive to said selecting means displaying the two-dimensional image of said selected object in said two-dimensional workplane; and

    user interactive means for functionally accessing said two-dimensional image of said object, whereby a user has simultaneous functional access to a three-dimensional object or the two-dimensional image of said object.

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