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6377281 |
Live performance control of computer graphic characters
A method and apparatus are provided for performing a computer graphic character live in a manner homologous to a live puppetry performance. Character representation information is created and...
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6370597 |
System for remotely controlling an animatronic device in a chat environment utilizing control signals sent by a remote device over the internet
An article including a computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon, which when executed, causes receipt of a control request from a first client for an animatronic device located on...
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6369821 |
Method and system for synchronizing scripted animations
An animation system provides synchronization services to synchronize actions of two more interactive user interface characters that are displayed simultaneously. The animation services allow...
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6369822 |
Audio-driven visual representations
A method and system to drive transformations of a visual representation, in real-time, that synchronizes the audio and visual outputs and controls the magnitude of object deformation to be visual...
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6366288 |
Image display control apparatus for displaying images corresponding to action of an object
In an image display device, a ROM contains a plurality of image data indicative of the actions of an animal character. A RAM includes a plurality of action level registers each stores for each of...
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6366285 |
Selection by proximity with inner and outer sensitivity ranges
A method and apparatus for selecting objects in a virtual world through the use of inner and outer selection ranges. Inner selection ranges define the distance from an object an avatar must be to...
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6366286 |
Image data editing
An image data editing facility produces a sequence of output image frames. A wipe animation is produced over a sequence of output frames such that an increasing proportion of the output image is...
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6361438 |
Video game transparency control system for images
When a player character moves closer to an opponent character, the viewpoint of a hypothetical camera which is capturing the image of the characters also moves closely to the characters, and a...
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6359621 |
Data converting device for encoding and editing time series data and method thereof
A data converting device collects time series movement data by measuring a movement of a living thing, encodes the movement data, and stores the encoded data in a storage device. Next, the data...
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6356288 |
Diversion agent uses cinematographic techniques to mask latency
A software agent is a functional part of a user-interactive software application running on a data processing system. The agent creates a user-perceptible effect in order to mask latency present in...
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6353437 |
Animation system and method for defining and using rule-based groups of objects
An animation system and method for defining and using one or more groups of objects in an animation allows an animator to define at least one membership rule that determines membership of an object...
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6351267 |
Fast transmission of graphic objects
A method for rendering an animation object, including a plurality of sub-objects, on a display of a client computer under control of a remote server. The method includes transferring from the...
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6348924 |
Method and apparatus for interactively painting volumetric particle flow paths and controlling a flow of the flow paths
A system that allows a user to interactively paint volumetric particles using a brush stroke. The particles are emitted from an area around the stroke path as the stroke is being made. As each...
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6347994 |
Game system and computer-readable recording medium used in the same
A game system comprises a first storing device storing data for identifying strength and weakness of characters belonging to a player and an opponent; a first display control device for displaying...
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6346944 |
Simulation display system
A simulation display system includes input deciding means for designating an external signal, a signal which is replaced by an event or an event, and an animation block for displaying the operation...
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6346945 |
Method and apparatus for pattern-based flowcharting of source code
A system and method for generating a consistent graphical expression of source code which is independent of the source language and of a particular programmer's style. The system first provides an...
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6342891 |
System and method for the dynamic display of three-dimensional image data
The present invention provides a system for the dynamic display of three-dimensional (3D) images of a target, comprising: memory means to store the plurality of time-dependent 3D image data sets;...
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6342894 |
Icon display method
In a display control method and a display control apparatus therefor, a plurality of icon fonts can be registered for one object, and the object can be explained using the plurality of icons by...
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6337688 |
Method and system for constructing a virtual reality environment from spatially related recorded images
A simulation of a real environment is constructed from a series of recorded frames that each contain an image of the real environment and each have data recording the associated position and...
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6331861 |
Programmable computer graphic objects
A method for producing an animation sequence on a graphic display driven by a computer, including defining an object that includes a geometrical description of an animated character and...
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6331854 |
Method and apparatus for accelerating animation in a video graphics system
A method and apparatus for accelerating animation in a video graphics system is accomplished by storing drawing operations for a first scene in a bus master buffer. The first scene is to be drawn...
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6326963 |
Method and apparatus for efficient animation and collision detection using local coordinate systems
Performance gains are realized by transforming less complex objects to the local space of a more complex object for collision detection against the more complex object. An inverse transformation...
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6323861 |
Display techniques for three dimensional virtual reality
A limitation of a three-dimensional world in which objects in the distance may be represented in only two dimensions as a video on a screen occurs when a computer graphic object represented by...
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6323863 |
Object structure graph generation and data conversion using the same
Shape expressions in CAD or CG have often been carried out in polygon data. In polygon representations, the amount of data becomes very large if precision is pursued. Another shape representation...
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6323857 |
Method and system enabling users to interact, via mutually coupled terminals, by reference to a virtual space
Users control the movement of avatars through a virtual space. The system keeps track of the location of the avatars and forms a picture of the virtual space for each user. Users can select...
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6320988 |
Skeleton model shape transformation method, image synthesizing apparatus, and information storage medium
The objective of this invention is to provide a method of transforming the shape of a skeleton model, wherein this method can easily handle a skeleton model of a multiple-branching structure and...
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6320582 |
Image generation apparatus, image generation method, game machine using the method, and medium
In a conventional shooting game machine, it lacked the versatility and appeal of a screen due to the movements of the viewpoint and enemies on the screen being uniform. The present invention...
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6320588 |
Audio/video storage and retrieval for multimedia workstations
An apparatus and method for storing and retrieving synchronized audio/video "filmclips" to and from a data file of a multimedia computer workstation includes a storage means for a workstation to...
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6317125 |
Saxs video object generation engine
A video object generation method (100) for converting a model (102) such that a tessellation operation (164) can create a realistic character in real time during game play. A shelling and slicing...
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6317130 |
Apparatus and method for generating skeleton-based dynamic picture images as well as medium storing therein program for generation of such picture images
Enabling an animation character object, which is pictorially deformed by computer graphics techniques to visually represent human body or animal or the like in the form of a caricature or model, to...
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6313843 |
Apparatus and method for controlling image display, and recording medium storing program for controlling image display
An image display control device includes a storage section storing section storing sequential behavior of living thing images, a display section for displaying the living thing images stored in the...
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6310625 |
Clip display method and display device therefor
In a clip display method the contents of a clip are clearly displayed and can be used to facilitate the editing of a motion picture. Obtained by dividing a motion picture are displayed by-employing...
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6307561 |
Animation generating apparatus and method
When a path for associating a plurality of object images selected in advance is input, the synthesis ratios of the object images corresponding to each dividing point obtained by equally dividing...
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6307562 |
Graphical interface with event horizon
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for viewing a plurality of objects on a graphical display. The graphical display includes space for displaying objects and a sink that...
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RE37418 |
Method and apparatus for synchronizing graphical presentations
A method and system for providing synchronization of the timing of various multimedia events, including a visual event is disclosed. Clock objects are defined in the storage and associated with an...
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6307567 |
Model-based view extrapolation for interactive virtual reality systems
A method by which a client and a server cooperate to render views of a virtual reality world within which a user of the client navigates. The server sends the client a reference view and a model to...
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6307550 |
Extracting photographic images from video
Generating photographs from a video. Segments of the video for which frame-to-frame background motion is less than a threshold are identified. For each of the segments, video frames in the segment...
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6304264 |
System and apparatus for customizing a computer animation wireframe
An animation wireframe is modified with three-dimensional (3D) range data having a corresponding shape surface. The animation wireframe is scaled in a first direction based on distances between...
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6300960 |
Realistic surface simulation in computer animation
Realistic computer generated character animation is achieved by modeling skin or other covering as a separate a quasi-static surface elastically tied to an underlying detailed, articulated model...
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6300959 |
Method and system condensing animated images
Improved techniques for condensing or reducing animated image data streams are disclosed. The improved techniques enable the transmission and storage of animated images in a rapid and efficient...
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6297830 |
Apparatus and method for storing a move within a movie
A hierarchical movie is provided. A hierarchical movie is a movie that contains one or more embedded movies. Embedded movies may themselves contain embedded movies. Each movie contains zero or more...
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6290604 |
Video game apparatus and memory used therefor
A video game apparatus includes an external ROM. This external ROM is previously memorized with player object data, basic shadow object data and light object data. A direction in which a shadow is...
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6288727 |
Method and apparatus for providing realistic movement of human characters on a video display
A computer, such as a PC includes a memory having an imaging program stored in it and a display unit, such as a restor scan CRT are all operatively connected together so that the computing unit can...
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6288722 |
Frame buffer reconfiguration during graphics processing based upon image attributes
The present invention allows the frame buffer to be dynamically reconfigurable during the processing of graphics data. Lower resolution double buffer mode is used when objects are moving, and...
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6289264 |
Debugging system for robot programs
A debugging system in which, when any trouble occurs in robot program using variables and debugging is to be performed, a specific variable as the probable cause of the trouble and a relevant...
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6285380 |
Method and system for scripting interactive animated actors
A system for the creation of real-time, behavior-based animated actors. The system provides tools to create actors that respond to users and to each other in real-time, with personalities and moods...
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6285379 |
Virtual body control device
A virtual body modelling apparatus and method models a users body in a virtual environment and animated to follow physical movements of the user. Stores (30,32) hold data defining the virtual...
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6281905 |
Method for modifying a display of a shape
For modifying a zone of a surface having an original shape, outer constraints are defined at boundaries of the zone as continuities G k along at least part thereof. Inner constraints G n are...
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6278466 |
Creating animation from a video
An apparatus and method for creating an animation. A sequence of video images is inspected to identify a first transformation of a scene depicted in the sequence of video images. A first image and...
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6278455 |
Pictorial interface for accessing information in an electronic file system
A pictorial user interface for accessing information in an electronic file system provides a pictorial image which is linked to a file directory and which identifies the file directory. Objects in...
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