Method and apparatus for a three-dimensional web-navigator
AssigneeJLB Ventures LLC
InventorsYakov Kamen, Leon Shirman
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Abstract
A three-dimensional browser wherein in an exemplary embodiment, information from a uniform resource locator is converted into at least one texture. The texture is mapped onto a surface of a three-dimensional object located in a virtual three-dimensional space in order to provide a three-dimensional navigation mechanism. In an alternate arrangement an event associated with an image is intercepted and the location of the event in the corresponding geometric surface of the virtual three-dimensional space is computed. This location is converted to a two-dimensional coordinate and thereafter information pertaining to the event is placed on the surface on the three-dimensional object in the virtual three-dimensional space.
Claims15
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- creating a virtual three-dimensional space having a plurality of walls including a first wall and a second wall;
- creating in the virtual three-dimensional space a first three-dimensional object with at least two surfaces;
- converting information from a first uniform resource locator into a first texture;
- mapping the first texture onto a first surface of the first three-dimensional object;
- and
- in response to the first three-dimensional object being selected, displaying information from the first uniform resource locator on less than all of the plurality of walls.
An apparatus comprising:
- a processor;
- a memory operatively coupled to the processor and storing machine executable instructions, that when executed, cause the apparatus to:
- create a virtual three-dimensional space having a plurality of walls including a first wall and a second wall;
- create in the virtual three-dimensional space a first three-dimensional object with at least two surfaces;
- convert information from a first uniform resource locator into a first texture;
- map the first texture onto a first surface of the first three-dimensional object;
- and
- in response to the first three-dimensional object being selected, display information from the first uniform resource locator on less than all of the plurality of walls.
A computer readable media storing computer executable instructions, that when executed, cause an apparatus to perform:
- creating a virtual three-dimensional space having plurality of walls, including a first wall and a second wall;
- creating in the virtual three-dimensional space a first three-dimensional object with at least two surfaces;
- converting information from a first uniform resource locator into a first texture;
- mapping the first texture onto a first surface of the first three-dimensional object;
- and
- in response to the first:
- three-dimensional object being selected, displaying information from the first uniform resource locator on less than all of the plurality of walls.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.