Peter W Coppin

US Patent:

20040039987, Feb 26, 2004

Filed:

Aug 22, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/225140

Inventors:

Peter Coppin - Pittsburgh PA, US
Karl Fischer - Pittsburgh PA, US

Assignee:

PLATFORM DIGITAL, LLC - PITTSBURGH PA

International Classification:

G06F017/24
G06F017/21

US Classification:

715/502000, 715/512000

Abstract:

A computer-implemented presentation authoring method, tool, and interface is provided for creating a remote experience lesson defined with a hierarchy of pages, at least one of the pages including an interactive view of a three-dimensional model. Any number of three-dimensional models and views, and any number of two-dimensional images and views may be used for the pages of the lesson. Annotations are drawn directly in the three-dimensional space of the three-dimensional model and are associated with particular pages. Hotspot annotations provide a non-linear link to other pages in the hierarchy of pages. The authoring tool and interface allows the creation of richly interactive and visual lessons based on telepresence experiences of remote locations and objects.