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7468730 |
Volumetric hair simulation
A volumetric representation of a hair simulation model determines collective hair attributes. To determine inter-hair collisions, vertices include average velocities of the adjacent portions of the...
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7468728 |
Apparatus for controlling a virtual environment
An apparatus for controlling an interactive virtual environment is disclosed. The apparatus comprises means for defining a virtual environment populated by objects, the objects comprising at least...
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7468729 |
Using an avatar to generate user profile information
An instant messaging user may be represented in communications with other users by an avatar that is capable of being animated or may convey information about the user by displaying other types of...
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7466321 |
Method and apparatus for the creation of cartoon effect videos
A user provides a plurality of video frames for processing, and selects a cartoon color palette. The color of all selected pixels within all selected video frames is changed to that of the closest...
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7463265 |
Constraint schemes for computer simulation of cloth and other materials
Constraint schemes for use in the computer simulation and animation of cloth, clothing and other materials helps to prevent clothing from excessive stretching, bunching up in unwanted areas, or...
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7463264 |
Method and system for distributed serverless file management
A method for serverless data management includes receiving an asset identifier in a first system, receiving data associated with the asset identifier in the first system, determining a resource in...
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7460125 |
Apparatus and method for immediately creating and controlling virtual reality interactive human body model for user-centric interface
Provided is an apparatus and method for immediately creating and controlling a virtual reality interactive human body model for a user-centric interface. The apparatus and method can transform a...
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7460118 |
Image processor, image processing method and image processing program
An image processing method and an image processor for drawing the movements of such linear objects as fur, hair, and grass of a turf being influenced by wind have not been proposed thus far. The...
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7450122 |
Volumetric hair rendering
A volumetric representation of a hair simulation model determines collective hair attributes. To determine inter-hair collisions, vertices include average velocities of the adjacent portions of the...
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7450126 |
Methods and systems for animating facial features, and methods and systems for expression transformation
The illustrated and described embodiments describe techniques for capturing data that describes 3-dimensional (3-D) aspects of a face, transforming facial motion from one individual to another in a...
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7450130 |
Adaptive scheduling to maintain smooth frame rate
Described is an adaptive scheduler associated with a desktop window manager that dynamically controls the rate at which graphics frames are composed. Values corresponding to performance when...
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7446772 |
Spectator experience for networked gaming
A spectator experience corresponding to an occurrence of one or more games or events is generated based on each associated occurrence. The occurrence of a game or event varies in response to...
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7446780 |
Temporal antialiasing in a multisampling graphics pipeline
Multisampling techniques provide temporal as well as spatial antialiasing. Coverage for a primitive is be determined at multiple sample locations for a pixel. In one embodiment, coverage is...
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7446771 |
Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding an orientation interpolator
A method and an apparatus for encoding and decoding an orientation interpolator indicating the locations of keyframes on a temporal axis and the rotation of an object in each of the keyframes are...
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7443402 |
Method and apparatus for virtual walkthrough
Method for producing an interactive virtual movie, which simulates walking of a user within a real site, comprising: (a) Defining first minimal conditions: (b) Defining second minimal conditions;...
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7443401 |
Multiple-level graphics processing with animation interval generation
Described is a method and system in which timing intervals are generated from clock properties, and used to interpolate values for smooth animation. A high-level component maintains a set of clocks...
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7440819 |
Animation system for a robot comprising a set of movable parts
The object of the invention is to make the movable parts of a robot reproduce the movement of the movable parts of an animated object, via the transmission of movement parameters to the robot in a...
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7441206 |
3D visual effect creation system and method
A visual effect creation system and method is software designed for creating, maintaining, and displaying real-time 3D visual effects. There are two parts to the software. The first part is the...
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7437684 |
Graphical interface system for manipulating a virtual dummy
To make it easier to manipulate in direct action and to manage the degrees of freedom of a virtual dummy, the invention provides a graphical interface system enabling two windows to be displayed on...
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7436406 |
Scene graph based display for desktop applications
A method and apparatus for rapidly displaying air traffic control (ATC) information on an ATC display provides a two-dimensional (2D) scene graph and associated 2D scene graph display commands in...
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7436408 |
Computer program for generating pictures
First and second areas are designated in a source picture. A start picture is generated from a portion of the source picture which extends in the first area. An end picture is generated from a...
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7433807 |
Facial image processing
In the described embodiment, methods and systems for processing facial image data for use in animation are described. In one embodiment, a system is provided that illuminates a face with...
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7432928 |
User interface state reconfiguration through animation
The size of a tool displayed in a user interface can be dynamically adjusted based on the current needs of the tool. When the user chooses a new function to perform using the tool, the tool's size...
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7433753 |
Virtual clothing modeling apparatus and method
Trying on the clothes is simulated by processing an image sequence by using a posture dictionary, and a three-dimensional figure, obtained in advance, of a person who wishes to try on clothing. The...
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7432929 |
Image processing apparatus and image processing method
A plurality of frame data are extracted from a moving image file included in at least one image file recorded in a recording device. In a case where a moving image file is selected from the image...
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7433527 |
Time series data dimensional compression apparatus
A time series data dimensional compression apparatus performing dimensional compression for improving the efficiency of searching for time series data without losing the features of data. The...
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7429989 |
Mobile communication terminal capable of editing avatar motions and method for editing avatar motions
A mobile communication terminal capable of editing avatar motions. The mobile communication terminal includes a memory and a controller. The memory stores a plurality of commands corresponding...
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7427986 |
Hybrid hardware-accelerated relighting system for computer cinematography
An interactive cinematic lighting system used in the production of computer-animated feature films containing environments of very high complexity, in which surface and light appearances are...
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7427988 |
Method and apparatus for defining and distributing an animation
A method of customising an animation. A broadcast station renders first animated objects in response to locked graphic data and unlocked metadata. The metadata facilitates customisation, by...
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7427991 |
System and process for digital generation, placement, animation and display of feathers and other surface-attached geometry for computer generated imagery
A system and process for digitally representing a plurality of surface-attached geometric objects on a model. The system and process comprises generating a plurality of particles and placing the...
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7426058 |
Image processing method and apparatus for generating sequential still images by extracting still images from moving image data, and printing apparatus
An image processing apparatus controls to print a plurality of sequential still images, which can be observed as a flip moving image, on the basis of moving image data. The image processing...
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7423650 |
Method of representing and animating two-dimensional humanoid character in three-dimensional space
There is provided a method of representing and animating a 2D (Two-Dimensional) character in a 3D (Three-Dimensional) space for a character animation. The method includes performing a...
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7423649 |
Methods and devices for creating, downloading and managing an animation
A method of creating an animation with a sequence of images which includes the steps of optimising requests for obtaining images from a remote terminal depending on at least one criterion, and...
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7421098 |
Facial recognition and the open mouth problem
A method, for electronic face recognition using geodesic representations, of processing such a geodesic representation of a face having a mouth and being able to adopt open-mouthed or closed mouth...
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7420574 |
Shape morphing control and manipulation
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to manipulate an image transformation over time. A source image is selected from a first frame and a destination image is...
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7421303 |
Parallel LCP solver and system incorporating same
A Linear Complementarity Problem (LCP) solver is characterized by multiple execution units operating in parallel to implement a competent computational method adapted to resolve physics-based LCPs...
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7417646 |
Background rendering in video compositing
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method of editing video through a multi-stage editing process. The method selects a particular stage in the editing process. A particular editing...
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7417645 |
Markup language and object model for vector graphics
An element object model and a vector graphics markup language for using that element object model in a manner that allows program code developers to consistently interface with a scene graph data...
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7415152 |
Method and system for constructing a 3D representation of a face from a 2D representation
A method and system for generating 3D images of faces from 2D images, for generating 2D images of the faces at different image conditions from the 3D images, and for recognizing a 2D image of a...
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7412389 |
Document animation system
An animating system converts a text-based document into a sequence of animating pictures for helping a user to understand better and faster. First, the system provides interfaces for a user to...
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7411590 |
Multimedia file format
An automatically readable medium encoded with a time-based media file which comprises a factory object which uniquely identifies the instantiation of an object of a particular type. The factory...
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7400747 |
Method and apparatus for representing moving objects in a sequence of images
A method of representing motion of an object appearing in a sequence of images comprises deriving for each image a set of representative points representing the location of the object, deriving an...
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7398002 |
Video editing method and device for editing a video project
A video editing method for editing a video project is for user to edit video clips and transition effects. The method firstly provides a timeline and multiple tracks along the timeline. Then the...
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7394471 |
Dynamic cross fading method and apparatus
Provided is a method and apparatus for dynamic cross fading. Specifically, an embedded system can display an image produced from a blend of other images. Initially, a first image and a second image...
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7391421 |
Conversational interface agent
A video rewrite technique for rendering a talking head or agent completely simulates a conversation by including a waiting or listening state. Smooth transitions are provided to and from a talking...
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7392162 |
System and method for device developing model networks purely by modelling as meta-data in a software application
A system, method and computer program that enables an application designer to automate the process of development of computational logic based applications. The designer develops the computational...
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7391420 |
Graphical user interface graphics-based interpolated animation performance
An arrangement provides for displaying an object, such as a drawn object, or a database search result, based on a graphical user interface. A first display window is provided for specifying...
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7388586 |
Method and apparatus for animation of a human speaker
Methods and apparatus for representing speech in an animated image. In one embodiment, key point on the object to be animated are defined, and a table of trajectories is generated to map positions...
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7385613 |
Collecting scripts in a distributed scripting environment
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implement techniques for collecting scripts associated with graphics objects in a hierarchical arrangement of objects. A plurality of...
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7386804 |
Method, system, apparatus, and computer program product for controlling and browsing a virtual book
A hardware and software system including a controller that can be operatively combined with several methods of display on a display screen under software and hardware control for the purpose of...
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