US 7,519,449 B2
Rendering system and method and recording medium therefor
Tae-hyun Rhee, Seoul (Korea, Republic of); Hoon Han, Seoul (Korea, Republic of); and Kwang-jae Lee, Seoul (Korea, Republic of)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (Korea, Republic of)
Filed on Dec. 31, 2002, as Appl. No. 10/331,651.
Claims priority of application No. 2002-12975 (KR), filed on Mar. 11, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2003/0172366 A1, Sep. 11, 2003
Int. Cl. G06F 19/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 700—182  [700/97; 700/98; 700/105; 345/419; 345/421; 717/100] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A rendering method comprising:
accessing a computer-aided design (CAD) system, importing CAD data from a CAD database of the CAD system, dividing the CAD data into geometry data of a product and related data on other aspects to be suitable to a structure of a database of a rendering system, and converting the divided data into a format of the rendering system;
editing, by the rendering system, a scene based on the geometry data using the related data stored in the database;
determining whether a modification to the edited scene is requested;
if it is determined that the modification is requested, selecting a unit of data to be imported and importing modified geometry data in the selected unit;
comparing an imported part identification with a previously stored part identification; and
if the imported part identification and the previously stored part identification are the same, replacing existing geometry data corresponding to the part identification with the imported geometry data,
wherein the geometry data of a product comprises assembly data and wherein the related data on the other aspects comprises attributes and parameters unrelated to the assembly.