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7080473 |
Novelty animated device with synchronized audio output, and method for achieving synchronized audio output therein
A method for creating realistic synchronization of a sound sample including speech to the motion of a lenticular image is disclosed, together with a device for achieving such synchronization. The...
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7079145 |
Method and program solving LCPs for rigid body dynamics
A projected iterative descent method is used to resolve LCPs related to rigid body dynamics, such that animation of the rigid body dynamics on a display system occur in real-time.
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7071943 |
System and method for visual feedback of command execution in electronic mail systems
The present invention is a method and system for visually informing a user that an email client has executed a desired command. The method comprises calculating an area within the email client that...
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7071942 |
Device for editing animating, method for editin animation, program for editing animation, recorded medium where computer program for editing animation is recorded
When a point (parameter) to be edited is judged to be present in the shape or moving state of an object (to be displayed) during reproduction of animation, the user selects the object on the screen...
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7068271 |
Assembly patterns by feature association
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide for drawing a graphical element in a computer-implemented drawing program. An existing instance of a graphical element pattern that defines a...
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7069520 |
Motion-based visualization
A data-display system employs a display in which the representations of data objects are caused to move on the display in order to convey information about the represented data objects. In one...
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7068277 |
System and method for animating a digital facial model
A system and method for animating facial motion comprises an animation processor adapted to generate three-dimensional graphical images and having a user interface and a facial performance...
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7068274 |
System and method for animating real objects with projected images
A computer implemented method animates a 3D physical object by first acquiring a 3D graphics model of the object. The model is edited with graphics authoring tools to reflect a desired appearance...
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7068269 |
System and method for presenting three-dimensional data
The invention relates to a system and method for presenting data such as CAD data and three-dimensional graphic design data. The presentation method includes a set of one or more pages upon which...
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7064762 |
Methods and system for general skinning via hardware accelerators
Complex computer graphics forms and motions can be constructed either by hand or with motion or geometry capture technologies, once they are created, they are difficult to modify, particularly at...
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7064760 |
Method and apparatus for extending structured content to support streaming
A method and apparatus is disclosed for sending structured data from a transmitter ( 1 ) to a receiver ( 3 ) through a network environment ( 2 ). The method includes partitioning the structured...
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7064761 |
Techniques for animating complex scenes
Techniques that enable users (e.g., animators) to accurately animate models in a scene without having to load all the models involved in the scene concurrently in computer memory. For a particular...
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7061501 |
Rendering a pencil-sketch image
A pencil-sketch image is rendered from three-dimensional (3D) data by determining a pencil-sketch texture for a polygon defined by the 3D data, projecting the polygon onto a two-dimensional...
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7061493 |
System for designing and rendering personalities for autonomous synthetic characters
Personality traits displayed on a workbench are grouped into a character profile that is utilized in determining the personality and/or specific actions of a synthetic character. The personality...
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7058896 |
System, method and computer program product for intuitive interactive navigation control in virtual environments
A system, method and computer program product is provided for interactive user navigation in a real-time 3D simulation. An assembly builder permits a user to build customized physics-based...
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7057618 |
Patch picking methods and apparatus
A computer program product for a computer system includes code that directs a processor to display a two-dimensional representation of a three-dimensional object on a display, wherein the...
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7057613 |
Image processing unit, image processing method and medium, and game machine
An image processing unit includes a shape memory in which object shape data are prerecorded, a processing component which establishes coordinate values for objects in a three-dimensional virtual...
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7057619 |
Methods and system for general skinning via hardware accelerators
Complex computer graphics forms and motions can be constructed either by hand or with motion or geometry capture technologies, once they are created, they are difficult to modify, particularly at...
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7053899 |
Animation packager for an on-line book
A system for creating an on-line book with an animated cover. The system includes an animation program for inserting an animation sequence at the beginning of an on-line book which is compiled into...
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7050062 |
Method and apparatus for the digital creation of fur effects
A system and method to generate digital representations of hair or animal fur on surfaces. In one embodiment the system and method includes methods to automatically place hairs on surfaces, comb...
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7050655 |
Method for generating an animated three-dimensional video head
The invention relates to a technique for generating an animated three-dimensional video head based on sensed locations of facial features and texture mapping of corresponding two dimensional video...
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7050058 |
Interactive water effects using texture coordinate shifting
A system and process for adding a photorealistic rendering of a body of water to a virtual 3D scene or image and creating a video therefrom having interactive water effects. A region of water is...
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7047423 |
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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7042474 |
Internet moving image linking system and link recognition method
An internet moving image linking system is provided that can reduce link information necessary for the related information in a moving image linkage. The internet moving image linking system...
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7038683 |
Audio driven self-generating objects
An apparatus and method for generating 3D graphics objects utilizes algorithms to generate the objects when driven by audio events. In one embodiment a “hydra” object has branches that are...
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7038676 |
System and method for data compression
A system and method for compressing video graphics data are provided. The system and method include generating in a graphics pipeline, from video graphics data modeling objects, vertex data...
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7038679 |
Three dimensional rendering including motion sorting
The present invention determines that an object is moving within a scene. At run time, the number of primitives used to represent the moving object is reduced. The degree of reduction can be...
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7039676 |
Using video image analysis to automatically transmit gestures over a network in a chat or instant messaging session
The system, method, and program of the invention captures actual physical gestures made by a participant during a chat room or instant messaging session or other real time communication session...
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7034832 |
Computer readable medium storing 3-D image processing program, 3-D image processing method and device, 3-D image processing program, and video game device
In order to generate, on a display screen, a natural-looking deformed image obtained by intentionally distorting an original image, a buffer 21 comprises an original image storage section 210 ...
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7034836 |
Adaptive caching of animation controls
The determination of the final posed position is optimized by tracking the changes in animation variables associated with the sequence of deformers over two or more poses. The earliest deformer of...
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7034822 |
System and method for producing 3D video images
A method and system generates 3D video images from point samples obtained from primary video data in a 3D coordinate system. Each point sample contains 3D coordinates in a 3D coordinate system, as...
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7034833 |
Animated photographs
A digital picture frame or other device which displays for some period of time a background image and a foreground object in a rest state. After the period of time elapses, some or all of the...
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7034834 |
Communication protocol for synchronizing animation systems
A communications protocol is described that governs asynchronous exchange of data between a high level animation system and a low level animation system. The high level animation system has a...
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7034835 |
System and method of converting frame-based animations into interpolator-based animations
A system and method of converting frame-based animation into interpolator-based animation is provided. The system and method includes a) identifying each unique combination of animation object and...
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7035764 |
System and process for tracking an object state using a particle filter sensor fusion technique
A system and process for tracking an object state over time using particle filter sensor fusion and a plurality of logical sensor modules is presented. This new fusion framework combines both the...
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7030882 |
Data processing apparatus and processing method and medium for electronic games
To provide a data processing apparatus wherewith the work volume required to produce game characters is reduced. The image data processing apparatus is an apparatus for placing a plurality of...
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7027053 |
Graphical user interface for indicating device failover
A computer-implemented method and apparatus for indicating a failover data path in a graphical user interface environment is provided. The method includes graphically displaying at least one source...
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7027054 |
Do-it-yourself photo realistic talking head creation system and method
A do-it-yourself photo realistic talking head creation system and method comprising: a template; a video camera having an image output signal of a subject; a computer having a mixer program for...
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7027055 |
Data view of a modelling system
An observation sub-system is described wherein in three-dimensional (3D) views of objects and their interactions over time are provided. Each different view is based on a fundamental visualization...
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7025675 |
Video game characters having evolving traits
A server-based video game system maintains a number of video game characters having computer-simulated genetic (“digenetic”) structures that prescribe a number of physical and cognitive...
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7023454 |
Method and apparatus for creating a virtual video of an object
A method for creating a virtual video includes at least one of steps a)–d): a) sending an image of an object to a receiver via an information line, the image having a plurality of identifiable...
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7019748 |
Simulating motion of static objects in scenes
A computer implemented method stimulates motion of a static 3D physical object in a static scene by first acquiring a 3D graphics model of the 3D physical object and the scene. A projector is...
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7019749 |
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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7012616 |
Display of images with transparent pixels
Displaying images having pixels thereof that are meant to be transparent is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes a first stage and a second stage. The first stage is performed once, to...
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7012606 |
System and method for a unified composition engine in a graphics processing system
The present invention is directed to a system and method for a unified composition engine that, in general, combines previously separate composition services. The unified composition engine...
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7009613 |
Game device, method of processing and recording medium for the same
A game device models images of moving images such as motor-bikes or cars moving through a virtual space. The track along which a first such moving object moving through the virtual space is sampled...
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7002584 |
Video information producing device
An video information producing device comprising an input device for inputting 3-D image information of a real image, and a processing device for processing 3-D image information from the input...
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7001280 |
Method of switching background images in accordance with movement of characters, storage medium for storing programs, and video game device
On displaying, in a video game device, an image of a player character and images of non-player characters, together with one type of background image from at least two or more switchable types of...
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6999083 |
System and method to provide a 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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6999084 |
Method and apparatus for computer graphics animation utilizing element groups with associated motions
An animation control unit specifies shape data, hierarchical structure data, a group table, and state information. A character state calculating unit obtains the specified shape data from a shape...
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