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Method of and apparatus for performing perspective transformation of visible stimuli
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Inventors: Oxaal, Ford;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Fetting; Anton
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Westerlund & Powell, P.C., Powell, Jr.; Raymond H. J., Westerlund; Robert A.
The principle purpose of the present invention is to provide an image processing system which uses the two methods to form visible stimuli which depict visual shape. In particular, the present invention either transforms a first visible configuration to a second visible configuration that depicts (in one of the two possible ways given) the visual shapes induced by the first visible configuration, or it determines the visible configuration necessary to depict the desired visual configuration. Using the present invention, it is possible to transform a full 360 degrees of visible space (i.e., front, back, up, down, right and left directional views) onto a single display surface. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention was motivated by the discovery that, given visible stimuli of some shape and proportion, the shape induced in the mind of the viewer is of a different proportion.
Once those different proportions inside the mind of the viewer are determined, however, new visible stimuli can be formed as an external manifestation of those different proportions induced in the viewer's mind.
There are two possible methods of externally depicting "visual" proportions.
(The term "visual" used herein refers to the perception caused by some external stimuli, and "visible" refers to the external stimuli itself.
That is, "visual" is internal to the viewer, i.
e.
, within one's mind, and "visible" is external to the viewer.
) The first method of externally depicting "visual" proportions is to simply map those visual proportions onto a visible flat surface.
The second method is to create visible stimuli which induces shapes in the mind of the viewer which are the same as the visual proportions being depicted, but of a different perceived size.
It should be noted that traditional pictorial visible stimuli induces shapes in the mind of the viewer which are the same shape and size as the visual proportions induced by the subject matter visible stimuli being depicted.
Thus, traditional pictorial visible stimuli are concerned with mimicking some original visible stimuli (such as a tree) as they exist in nature, whereas the present invention is concerned with mimicking the visual shapes either induced by some original visible stimuli, or dreamed or imagined in the mind of the viewer.
The principle purpose of the present invention is to provide an image processing system which uses the two methods to form visible stimuli which depict visual shape.
In particular, the present invention either transforms a first visible configuration to a second visible configuration that depicts (in one of the two possible ways given) the visual shapes induced by the first visible configuration, or it determines the visible configuration necessary to depict the desired visual configuration
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