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System for manipulating digitized image objects in three dimensions

  • US 5,999,641 A
  • Filed: 11/19/1996
  • Issued: 12/07/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/18/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system for remotely and electronically manipulating image objects in three dimensions, comprising:

  • means for capturing a plurality of images of an object from different directions around said object;

    means for generating a digital signal having information representing each of said plurality of image and the spatial location of each of said plurality of images in relation to said means, said plurality of images being views of said object on a background;

    a digital compressor, said digital compressor being capable of processing said digital signal to remove information in said signal corresponding to said background of said images and generating digitally compressed information lacking said background information;

    a storage unit for storing said digitally compressed information, as a database of a plurality of views of said object, and;

    a control unit connected to said storage means to address said digitally compressed information stored on said storage unit wherein said control unit can be controlled by an operator to access said digitally compressed information and to manipulate said object on an image display unit connected to said control unit and to said storage unit to form a display of said object.

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