106 results about "Drop shadow" patented technology

This invention provides systems and methods that allow a user to change the size of a background used with a graphics-based user interface. This enables tailored background sizes based on user preference and allowable conditions, which are particularly useful with display devices having a large display area. By custom sizing a background to current conditions, a user may navigate an image among obstacles at a receiving surface and obstacles along a projection path between a projection lens and receiving surface. In addition, a user may customize the background size on a large LCD screen according to more suitable dimensions for an image used in the background or to a personal preference, thereby creating a personalized look and feel for the graphics-based user interface. One embodiment of the present invention defines a usable area for a graphics-based user interface according to the current size of the background. Changing the background size in this case also then changes the usable area for the graphics-based user interface.

A touch panel comprises panel glass and a touch sensing module laminated on the back surface of the panel glass, the panel glass comprises a display area and a non-display area located on the outer periphery of the display area, the touch sensing module comprises a first conducting layer and a second conducting layer, and the first conducting layer and the second conducting layer are stacked in a spaced mode in the thickness direction of the panel glass. The first conducting layer comprises a plurality of first conducting strips which extend in the first direction, are arranged at intervals and are insulated from one another, the second conducting layer comprises a plurality of second conducting strips which extend in the second direction, are arranged at intervals and are insulated from one another, and drop shadows, on the plane where the second conducting strips are located, of the first conducting strips intersect with the second conducting strips. A sensing area is formed by the portion, between the boundary of the first conducting layer and the boundary of the second conducting area, of the touch sensing module, the sensing area comprises a visible area right facing the display area and a non-visible area right facing the non-display area, the drop shadow, on the panel glass, of the visible area coincides with the display area, and the drop shadow, on the panel glass, of the non-visible area coincides with the non-display area. Therefore, the user experience function can be achieved.

2D imposters representing 3D graphical objects, such as virtual spectators in a simulated sports arena, are dynamically displayed at predefined locations relative to an arbitrarily movable camera position in a virtual space. A hierarchical data structure is created with branches corresponding to iteratively subdivided groups of imposter data structures and is used to store polygon vertices, texture data, and other 2D imposter data generated during run-time. Center locations of the hierarchically divided groupings are used to determine a common projection location within a current view volume at which each 2D imposter is projected as an oriented image from each corresponding animated 3D graphical object. Sets of contiguous 2D imposter data are determined based on currently visible groupings of predefined locations that do not require rendering as 3D graphical objects due to their distance from the camera position. Each set of contiguous 2D imposters is rendered with a single draw primitive.

The application relates to 2D video with an option for projected viewing in modeled 3D space. A multimedia distribution system enables a user to view 2D video content in a conventional 2D or "flat" viewing mode, or if the system is VR / AR enabled and the user is so inclined, a representation of a modeled 3D space may be provided or accessed in association with the 2D video content, and the 2D videocontent may be projected onto a specified surface within the modeled 3D space for viewing by the user as though the 2D video were being displayed at that surface / location within the modeled 3D space.Further, the pose of the user may be monitored and the projection of the 2D video content updated accordingly to match the user's current pose and view into the modeled 3D space.