US Patent Issued to AUTODESK on July 1 for "Integration of a two-dimensional input device into a three-dimensional computing environment" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,531, issued on July 1, was assigned to AUTODESK INC. (San Francisco).

"Integration of a two-dimensional input device into a three-dimensional computing environment" was invented by Qian Zhou (Toronto), Fraser Anderson (Camrose, Canada) and George Fitzmaurice (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A workstation enables operation of a 2D input device with a 3D interface. A cursor position engine determines the 3D position of a cursor controlled by the 2D input device as the cursor moves within a 3D scene displayed on a 3D display. The cursor position engine determines the 3D position of the cursor for a current frame of the 3D scene ba...