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Method and apparatus for producing a computer generated display that permits visualization of changes to the interior or exterior of a building structure shown in its actual environment

  • US 5,986,670 A
  • Filed: 09/13/1996
  • Issued: 11/16/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/13/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A computer system for producing a computer generated display that permits visualization of changes to the interior or exterior of a building in its actual environment, comprising:

  • (a) a computer generated display, including a background digital image appearing on a screen of the computer system;

    (b) means to record and store digital images of objects and object information comprising a plurality of fields of information related to each of the objects, in an object information database to form an object catalog;

    (c) object data access means including a display interface; and

    (d) means for copying and moving a digital image of an object selected from the object catalog, the copying and moving means operable to removably place the digital image of the selected object on the background digital image to permit visualization of the object on the background; and

    (e) wherein the object data access means is operably connected to the object information database and to the copying and moving means so that after the digital image of the selected object is placed on the background digital image, the object data access means is operable by the system users through the display interface, to retrieve and display on the screen object information from selected ones or all of the plurality of fields of information corresponding to the digital images placed on the background digital image.

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