Attribute information presenting apparatus and multimedia system

An attribute information presenting apparatus for presenting audio or video information about an object at a reference point according to a relative position of the object to the reference point, the apparatus comprising:

• storing means for storing audio or video information about the object, wherein the object is present at a plurality of relative positions to the reference point;
• input means for inputting relative coordinates of the object to the reference point;
• reading means for reading audio or video information from the storing means according to the relative coordinates input by the input means;
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• means for determining weighted average of plural pieces of attribute information continuous in time being read out from said storing means.

An attribute information presenting apparatus for presenting audio or video information about an object at a reference point according to a relative position of the object to the reference point, the apparatus comprising:

• storing means for storing audio or video information about the object, wherein the object is present at a plurality of relative positions to the reference point;
• input means for inputting relative coordinates of the object to the reference point;
• reading means for reading audio or video information from the storing means according to the relative coordinates input by the input means;
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• means for determining weighted average of plural sets of relative coordinates continuous in time being inputted in said input means.

An attribute information presenting apparatus for presenting audio or video information about an object at a reference point according to a relative distance and direction of the object to the reference point, the apparatus comprising:

• storing mean for storing audio or video information about the object, wherein the object is present at a plurality of relative positions and directions to the reference point;
• input means for inputting relative coordinates of the object to the reference point;
• reading means for reading audio or video information from the storing means according to the relative coordinates input by the input means;
• converting means for converting the inputted relative coordinates into relative coordinates which are closest to the inputted relative coordinates and in which the corresponding attribute information is stored, when the attribute information on the object corresponding to the relative coordinates inputted in said input means is not stored in said storing means;
• interpolating means for interpolating plural pieces of attribute information corresponding to plural pieces of relative coordinates which are near the inputted relative coordinates and in which the attribute information is stored, when the attribute information on the object corresponding to the relative coordinates inputted in said input means is not stored in said storing means;
• means for comparing the relative distance of inputted relative coordinates and a predetermined value;
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• means for selecting said interpolating means when the relative distance is not more than the predetermined value, and selecting said converting means when the relative distance is more than the predetermined value.

An attribute information presenting apparatus for presenting audio or video information about an object at a reference point according to a relative distance and direction of the object to the reference point, the apparatus comprising:

• storing means for storing audio or video information about the object, wherein the object is present at a plurality of relative positions and directions to the reference point;
• input means for inputting relative coordinates of the object to the reference point;
• reading means for reading audio or video information from the storing means according to the relative coordinates input by the input means;
• means for comparing the relative distance of the relative coordinates input in said input means and a predetermined value;
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• means for stopping the reading operation of said reading means when the relative distance is not less than the predetermined value.

An attribute information presenting apparatus for presenting audio or video information about an object at a reference point according to a relative distance and direction of the object to the reference point, the apparatus comprising:

• storing means for storing audio or video information about the object, wherein the object is present at a plurality of relative positions and directions to the reference point, wherein said storing means stores attribute information corresponding to the relative coordinates of which relative distance is not more than a predetermined value;
• input means for inputting relative coordinates of the object to the reference point;
• reading means for reading audio or video information from the storing means according to the relative coordinates input by the input means;
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• means for changing the magnitude of the attribute information stored in said storing means when the relative coordinates of which relative distance is larger than the predetermined value is inputted in said input means is further provided.

An attribute information presenting apparatus for presenting audio or video information about an object at a reference point according to a relative distance and direction of the object to the reference point, the apparatus comprising:

• storing means for storing audio or video information about the object, wherein the object is present at a plurality of relative positions and directions to the reference point;
• input means for inputting relative coordinates of the object to the reference point;
• reading means for reading audio or video information from the storing means according to the relative coordinates input by the input means;
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• means for inverting the attribute information being read out by said reading means.

A multimedia system for presenting attribute information for multimedia of an object to be presented at a viewer point according to a relative distance and direction of the object to the viewer point, comprising:

• input means for inputting relative coordinates of the object representing distances and directions to the viewer point;
• storing means for storing attribute information for multimedia of the object to be presented at the viewer point when the object is present at plural relative positions to the viewer point;
• and
• reading means for reading out the attribute information from said storing means according to the relative coordinates inputted in said input means.