Appeal No. 96-2994
Application 08/282,413
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134
from the examiner’s rejection of claims 1-26, which constitute
all the claims in the application. An amendment after final
rejection was filed on June 2, 1995 and was entered by the
examiner.
The disclosed invention pertains to a method and
apparatus for modeling the relative position and the relative
movement of plural objects located in a virtual reality
environment.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A method of modeling relative position and relative
movement of objects in a virtual reality environment,
comprising the steps of:
representing graphically a first object and a second
object in the virtual reality environment on a graphical
display;
determining a first partitioning plane between said first
object and said second object;
determining a second partitioning plane between said
first object and said second object in response to either of
said first object or said second object moving across said
first partitioning plane; and
representing graphically on said graphical display in
response to said second partitioning plane determining step
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