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Re: ALERT Austrialian Patent on VRTours ??
chris 2005-May-12 04:07:00
There should be plenty of prior are covering this Yet-Another-Stupid-Patent.
if the date it was awarded is 2003/04 I'm sure I could find some,
chris
Dave 360texas.com wrote:
> Received an email from an Austrialian friend of mine just today. He
> wrote:
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> Ever heard of an Aussie Virtual Tour company called, "Pro Active
> Tours"?
>
> http://www.proactivetours.com.au/
>
> They have Patent No 2003250595 "Interactive Property Tour"
>
> A system for creating a web based tour for an item of interest
> characterised in that it includes the steps of: -establish a tour
> identity -associating one or more reference images with the tour
> identity -positioning one or more reference icons on one or more of
> the said reference images, each said reference icons being
> associated with a further reference image -and wherein a position of
> each said reference icons is selected to provide information
> relating to said further reference image
>
> A friend of mine doing Virtual Tours in Melbourne has received a
> letter from a law firm from this virtual tour company, claiming he
> owes them money from March 2004 for all the work he has placed
> online.
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> Anyone else heard of this ??? Their site uses static images not
> panoramas but it could affect people who use this technique to link
> panoramas.
>
> Dave
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> -Visit the web site at http://GeoImages.Berkeley.edu/wwp.html
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