Patent 7030880 was granted and assigned to HI Corporation on April, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
In an information processing apparatus for conducting an affine transformation representative of(x′y′z′)=A(xyz)+(t1t2t3),amatrixA′=(a11′a12′a13′a21′a22′a23′a31′a32′a33′)=λA=(λa11λa12λa13λa21λa22λa23λa31λa32λa33)obtained by multiplying a matrix A for the affine transformation by λ(≠0) is stored in a memory section in advance. In case of conducting calculation processing for transforming coordinates (x,y,z)t into coordinates (x′,y′,z′)t by means of the affine transformation, A′ and a matrix (t1,t2,t3)t are read from the memory section,x′=(a′11*x+a′12*y+a′13*z)/λ+t1;y′=(a′21*x+a′22*y+a′23*z)/λ+t2;z′=(a′31*x+a′32*y+a′33*z)/λ+t3;are calculated, and the coordinates (x′,y′,z′)t are obtained.