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US 5,670,987 AGranted
Virtual manipulating apparatus and method
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsMiwako Doi, Nobuko Kato, Naoko Umeki
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Abstract
A manipulation target such as a lever or button is displayed in a three-dimensional virtual space using three-dimensional computer graphics. The positions of a thumb and an index finger are detected. A manipulation instruction is interpreted, using interpretation rules described on the basis of a relationship between the detected positions and the thumb and the index finger and the three-dimensional coordinates of a display device.
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A virtual manipulating apparatus, comprising:
- presentation means for presenting a manipulation target in a three-dimensional virtual space using three-dimensional computer graphics;
- position detecting means for detecting a finger tip position of an operator, including:
- a position source for generating a magnetic field;
- position sensors, mounted on a tip of a thumb and a tip of an index finger of the operator, for detecting the magnetic field from said position source;
- transmitting means, mounted on the tip of the thumb and the tip of the index finger for transmitting position information from said position sensors;
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- receiving means for receiving the position information sent from said transmitting means;
- interpreting means for interpreting a manipulation instruction, using prescribed rules, on the basis of a relation between the position of the finger tip which is detected by said position detecting means and the position of the manipulation target on the presentation means.
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A virtual manipulating apparatus comprising:
- presentation means for presenting a manipulation target;
- simulator means for simulating internal processing of the manipulation target presented on said presentation means;
- manipulation storage means for storing a manipulation attribute of each manipulation target together with graphic data presented on said presentation means;
- position detecting means for detecting a finger tip position of an operator, including:
- a position source for generating a magnetic field;
- position sensors, mounted on a tip of a thumb and a tip of an index finger of the operator, for detecting the magnetic field from said position source;
- transmitting means, mounted on the tip of the thumb and the tip of the index finger, for transmitting position information from said position sensors;
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- receiving means for receiving the position information sent from said transmitting means;
- interpreting means for interpreting a manipulation instruction for said presentation means on the basis of a relation between the finger tip position detected by said position detecting means, a position of said presentation means, and the manipulation attribute stored in said manipulation attribute storage means;
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- information management means for performing control to transmit the manipulation instruction interpreted by said interpreting means to said simulator means and present a result of the manipulation instruction on said presentation means.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.