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Patent Number: 7,961,187
Date of Patent: 14 June 2011
Inventors: Borland; David (Chapel Hill, NC), Clarke; John P. (Chapel Hill, NC), Taylor, II; Russell M. (Pittsboro, NC)
Assignee: The University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC)
Appl. No.: 12/532,373
Filed: 20 March 2008
U.S. Cl.: 345/424
33 Claims
Abstract
The invention relates to flexible occlusion rendering, including receiving a first set of three dimensional image data including image data for a surface of interest and image data for a region occluding the surface of interest from a desired viewpoint. The purpose of this invention is to improve occlusion rendering via imaging by locating the occluding surface of the incoming three-dimensional data and, and modifying the characteristics of this data, to show the surface that is being occluded so that the image includes viewing through the occlusion to the surface of interest.
