G06F 3/04815
Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional [3d]
Official title: Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional [3D], e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
G06F3/04815 (Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional [3d]) appears on 6,951 US grants and 9,035 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 9,035
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- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 336 | 470 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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- Methods for manipulating a virtual object8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310304 A1Apple Inc.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for integrating manual input3,711US 6,323,846 B1University of Delaware · 2001
- Microwave ablation system with user-controlled ablation size and method of use1,072US 9,277,969 B2Covidien LP · 2016
- Chat clusters for a virtual world application935US 6,772,195 B1Electronic Arts Inc. · 2004
- Multi-dimensional user interface745US 5,148,154 ASony Corporation of America · 1992
- Method and apparatus for integrating manual input703US 6,888,536 B2University of Delaware · 2005