Appeal No. 1999-2607
Application 08/826,618
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the
final rejection of claims 20-22.
We reverse.
RELATED APPEAL
This appeal is related to Appeal No. 1999-2608 in
Application 08/826,616, decided concurrently herewith.
BACKGROUND
The disclosed invention relates to a system, method, and
computer program for a three-dimensional workspace wherein
certain three-dimensional objects serve as proxies for user
interactive application programs. Such objects may be selected
to bring forth planar two-dimensional interactive user interfaces
having images resembling those of the three-dimensional objects
appearing in front of the three-dimensional workspace. The
invention permits the viewer or user to utilize conventional
two-dimensional interfaces within his three-dimensional virtual
reality workspace simultaneously with his continued navigation
through his three-dimensional workspace. For example, the user
may select the book 46 in the three-dimensional workspace of
figure 2 to bring up an initial two-dimensional representation of
the book in front of the workspace, as shown in figure 3, and
then interact with the two-dimensional interface to change pages,
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