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6552721 |
Graphic data generating apparatus, graphic data generation method, and medium of the same
The present invention relates to a technique for switching file scopes comprised of sets of nodes referred to by a file being edited. Therefore, a scene graph editing tool 424 edits the...
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6549206 |
Graphic scene animation signal, corresponding method and device
The invention concerns a graphic scene animation data signal, designed for means constructing images capable of being displayed on at least one screen, said graphic scene having probably been...
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6549208 |
Information security analysis system
The analysis system is a collection, configuration and integration of software programs that reside on multiple interconnected computer platforms. The software, less computer operating systems, is...
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6549207 |
Method and apparatus for dissolving image on display screen
A method and apparatus for dissolving an image on a display screen. The pixels of the objective image are divided into a plurality of groups in such a manner that the pixels in each group are...
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6545740 |
Method and system for reducing motion artifacts
A motion artifact reduction system ( 10 ) includes a series of cinematic feature image frames (IF m , IF m+1 )captured at an incoming frame rate. The motion artifact reduction system ( 10 ) also...
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6545673 |
Three-dimensional CG model generator and recording medium storing processing program thereof
The present invention provides a three-dimensional CG model generator allowing input assistance for matching a supplied actually captured image and a basic model to be simplified so that a...
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6545682 |
Method and apparatus for creating and customizing avatars using genetic paradigm
A method and apparatus for creating an avatar are described. A number of user-modifiable genes are maintained in a local processing system, each of which represents a different user-perceivable...
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6546436 |
System and interface for controlling programmable toys
A programmable toy interface for electrical connection with and control of a toy structure having at least one electrically-powered output device, such as a motor, light or sound output, and that...
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6546397 |
Browser based web site generation tool and run time engine
A method and apparatus for designing and building a web page. The apparatus includes a browser based build engine including build tools and a user interface. The build tools are operable to...
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6542158 |
Delivering animation over the internet
A method for delivering animation includes transmitting a single source image to a client system. Parameters that generate a function are transmitted to the client system. Modulation frames are...
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6538654 |
System and method for optimizing 3D animation and textures
A system and method facilitating the production, processing, and Internet distribution of 3D animated movies including 3D multipath movies. A key reduction algorithm reduces the keyframes...
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6535907 |
Method and apparatus for processing attached E-mail data and storage medium for processing program for attached data
A method and apparatus for processing attached E-mail data and storage medium for processing a program for attached data in which, in sending/receiving an E-mail using a virtual pet displayed on a...
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6535215 |
Method for animating 3-D computer generated characters
A character animation system translates high-level commands from an external application into motions and deformations of a character model. The character animations are (1) composed in real-time...
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6532014 |
Cloth animation modeling
A model for cloth, which allows for substantially real-time animation of the cloth, is disclosed. The latitudinal (vertical) nodes of the model are decoupled from the longitudinal (horizontal)...
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6532011 |
Method of creating 3-D facial models starting from face images
The method allows the creation of 3-D facial models, which can be used, for instance, for the avatar implementation, video-communication applications, video games, video productions, and for the...
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6525736 |
Method for moving grouped characters, recording medium and game device
The present invention is to provide a method for moving grouped characters whose interaction can be expressed realistically. When an acceleration for moving a character away from anther character...
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6525735 |
System for attaching rigid objects to deformed shapes in computer generated images via real time local approximation of deformation using rotation
The present invention is a system that produces a position of a rigid object, such as a button, on a deformed model, such as an animated piece of cloth, at each cycle in an animation of the model...
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6522329 |
Image processing device and method for producing animated image data
A trace line picture which is manually drawn with a pen is taken in by a camera or a scanner, and is supplied to a personal computer as an original line drawing. The personal computer carries out...
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6522331 |
Character animation using directed acyclic graphs
A character animation system, method, and computer program product for animating a skeleton. The skeleton has bones arranged in a hierarchy. Each bone in the skeleton is defined in relation to its...
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6522333 |
Remote communication through visual representations
A system and method for remote communication is disclosed that allows communication over a network but still provides a behavioral context within which the communication is interpreted. A visual...
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6522332 |
Generating action data for the animation of characters
Action data for the animation of characters is generated in a computer animation system. Body part positions for a selected character are positioned in response to body part positions captured from...
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6518969 |
Three dimensional graphics drawing apparatus for drawing polygons by adding an offset value to vertex data and method thereof
A three-dimensional graphics drawing apparatus includes a geometrical operation unit generating vertex data of a polygon, an offset register storing an offset value for the vertex data of the...
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6515668 |
Computer graphics animation method and device
An implicit surface is defined by a time dependent implicit surface model. From the implicit surface model a first and second mesh of control points of a first and second non-linear coordinate...
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6512520 |
Apparatus for and method of transmitting and receiving data streams representing 3-dimensional virtual space
An apparatus for and a method of transmitting and receiving data streams representing 3-dimensional virtual space, the apparatus comprising: a transmitting member; a receiving member; and a...
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6512521 |
Method of displaying two dimensional picture image data, and constructing animation picture therefrom
A method of constructing, from given photography of a scene a two-dimensional virtual snap shot of the sceney that could be obtained for the viewer of the picture by moving the camera looking at...
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6512516 |
Voxel-based system to permit rapidly deforming volumetric objects made up of inhomogeneous material
An improvement to a voxel-based system to permit rapidly deforming volumetric objects made up of inhomogeneous material provides different material constraints assigned to different elements, with...
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6509899 |
Time differencing for improved cloth animation
A dynamic cloth simulation technique according to the present invention decomposes the second order differential equations of motion into two first order differential equations which permits...
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6507345 |
Apparatus and method for creating graphics
An apparatus and method for creating graphics in which an image pattern to be pasted is displayed on the screen of a display unit through a display content VRAM, by inputting an operation command...
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6504545 |
Animated font characters
A method and apparatus for creating an animated font character based on an initial non-animated font character. Initially, a glyph representative of at least one aspect of the non-animated font...
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6504541 |
Warping geometric objects
A system is disclosed for warping models made from geometric objects, such as electronic maps, to correct local distortions in the models without compromising model topology. A set of...
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6503144 |
Computer readable program product storing program for ball-playing type game, said program, and ball-playing type game processing apparatus and method
A computer readable program product stores a program of a ball-playing type game which can smoothly express the continuous action of a player before and after a player obtains a ball when throwing...
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6504546 |
Method of modeling objects to synthesize three-dimensional, photo-realistic animations
A method for modeling three-dimensional objects to create photo-realistic animations using a data-driven approach. The three-dimensional object is defined by a set of separate three-dimensional...
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6501476 |
Video processing and rendering
Video processing apparatus in which input images of an input video sequence are processed according to user adjustable video effects parameters to generate output images of an output video sequence...
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6496184 |
Method for inferring scenes from test images and training data using probability propagation in a markov network
A method infers a scene from a test image. During a training phase, a plurality of images and corresponding scenes are acquired. Each of the images and corresponding scenes are partitioned...
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6496196 |
Information recording and replaying apparatus and method of controlling same
An information recording and replaying apparatus and a method of controlling the same are provided for manipulating information provided in real time and the other kind of information in a unified...
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6492990 |
Method for the automatic computerized audio visual dubbing of movies
A method using computer software for automatic audio visual dubbing ( 5 ) using an efficient computerized automatic method for audio visual dubbing of movies by computerized image copying of the...
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6490370 |
System and method for describing multimedia content
A video processing device and method for generating a descriptor data structure representative of a feature that has been selected from among of plurality of features including visual, conceptual,...
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6486880 |
Transmission of pixel data defining two motion phases of a graphic image
A method and arrangements for transmitting, receiving and displaying graphic images. The graphic images include dynamic icons (dynacons), i.e. graphic subpictures comprising two or more motion...
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6486881 |
Basis functions of three-dimensional models for compression, transformation and streaming
An image processing system in which the vertices of an object contained within an image are analyzed using a singular value decomposition (SVD) method is disclosed. The use of the SVD allows the...
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6483511 |
Event simulator, and methods of constructing and utilizing same
An event simulator which captures a live or recorded event and selectively incorporates simulator participants therewith. The simulator includes a mechanism for generating a computer graphic...
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6483513 |
Method for defining MPEP 4 animation parameters for an animation definition interface
A process is defined for the rapid definition of new animation parameters for proprietary renderers. The process accommodates the peculiarities of proprietary models. In a first step, a proprietary...
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6483520 |
Image creating method and apparatus, recording medium for recording image creating program, and video game machine
In an image creating apparatus, a liquid-object model is realistically represented by using a simple liquid-object model consisting of a plurality of polygons. A ROM stores wave-swell polygon data...
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6483506 |
System and method for generating computer animated graphical images of a vascular structure attached to an anatomical structure
A process for generating animated graphical images of a vascular structure attached to an anatomical structure includes the steps of: generating and arranging a plurality of anatomical patches in...
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6480896 |
Systems and methods for generating and communicating motion data through a distributed network
A control software system for generating and distributing motion media for operating a target motion device. The control software system generates the motion media based on a motion program...
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6478680 |
Game apparatus, method of displaying moving picture, and game program product
A CD-ROM which records a game program and movie data is used to display a movie on part of a face of a character appearing in a game. A predetermined face object is placed in a virtual...
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6480194 |
Computer-related method, system, and program product for controlling data visualization in external dimension(s)
A computer graphics display method and system for controlling data visualization in at least one external dimension is provided which allows better querying and navigation of data in external...
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6480192 |
Recording medium, apparatus and method for processing images
On a screen display, a specialized image effect is easily attained in which near images are made to appear clearly while distant images are seen as blurred. An image is formed on a screen in which...
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6476812 |
Information processing system, information processing method, and supplying medium
An information processing system for processing three-dimensional information on an object existing actually in a three-dimensional space for detecting a collision between a space having an...
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6476815 |
Information processing apparatus and method and information transmission system
A receiver receives data made up of a text block for voice synthesis containing animation control information, and animation data. A demultiplexer extracts the animation data from the data, and...
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6469701 |
Method for compressing graphical information
A new compressed representation for the connectivity of a triangle mesh. Local compression and decompression algorithms are disclosed which are fast enough for real time applications. The achieved...
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