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7619633 |
Intelligent caching data structure for immediate mode graphics
An intelligent caching data structure and mechanisms for storing visual information via objects and data representing graphics information. The data structure is generally associated with...
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7619628 |
Caching digital image data
Methods and systems for processing digital image data utilizing vertically-oriented Effect graphs are provided. When processing digital image data utilizing Effect graphs, it is often necessary for...
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7617228 |
Displaying image data
A machine-readable definition of a three-dimensional scene is represented. A list of relationships between elements of the scene is generated, wherein each entry on said list identifies two...
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7616220 |
Spatio-temporal generation of motion blur
Embodiments of the present invention blend frames over a specified spatial and temporal extent to produce a smoothly animated appearance at a reduced frame rate. As the window moves further or...
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7616203 |
Assigning attributes to regions across frames
Assigning an attribute is disclosed. Assigning an attribute includes receiving a first region from a first frame, wherein the first region is associated with an attribute, receiving a second region...
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7612778 |
Graphical user interface graphics-based interpolated animation performance
A computer-implemented method provides for receiving via a processor a query of at least two terms, presenting a node for each term in a graphical display, positioning a cursor in the graphical...
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7612777 |
Animation generating apparatus, animation generating method, and animation generating program
An animation generating apparatus for generating a three-dimensional animation tracking a moving object includes a camera parameter setting section setting a point of regard and a point of view...
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7609270 |
System and method of customizing animated entities for use in a multi-media communication application
In an embodiment, a method is provided for creating a personal animated entity for delivering a multi-media message from a sender to a recipient. An image file from the sender may be received by a...
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7609261 |
Modeling hair using interpolation and clumping in an iterative process
The present invention models hairs by generating hairs by interpolation and then further modifying the interpolated hairs to form clumps. The modified hairs can be iteratively reprocessed to...
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7607108 |
Data processing setting apparatus, data processing setting method, data processing setting program, and computer-readable recording medium recording the program
The present invention provides a data processing setting apparatus which is improved in convenience when selecting a desired function from a plurality of functions of data processing. A printer...
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7606375 |
Method and system for automatically generating world environmental reverberation from game geometry
Reverberation parameters for one or more positions of interest are derived from graphics data used for displaying a computer-generated environment. For each position of interest for which...
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7605817 |
Determining camera motion
Camera motion is determined in a three-dimensional image capture system using a combination of two-dimensional image data and three-dimensional point cloud data available from a stereoscopic,...
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7603278 |
Segment set creating method and apparatus
A segment set before updating is read, and clustering considering a phoneme environment is performed to it. For each cluster obtained by the clustering, a representative segment of a segment set...
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7599838 |
Speech animation with behavioral contexts for application scenarios
Methods and systems, including computer program products, for speech animation. The system includes a speech animation server and one or more speech animation clients. The speech animation server...
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7598956 |
Blended object attribute keyframing model
Combined object level and property level key framing systems, methods, and user interfaces are provided in which a user can enter a mode where any change to a property is recorded as a key framing...
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7596764 |
Multidimensional image data processing
An apparatus for processing image data 603, 604 is provided, which comprises processing means 201, 202 , memory means 205, 206, 207 , display means 104 and manually operable input means 102,...
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7594180 |
Method and apparatus for titling by presenting computer-generated characters
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for presenting computer-generated characters. The method defines several frames for a character and sequentially presents the frames. Each frame...
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7593015 |
System and method for sequencing media objects
A method of displaying a long animation is provided. The animation is defined in an animation file, which identifies a set of images that form the animation when sequentially displayed. A batch...
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7593014 |
Image processing apparatus and game apparatus
An image processing apparatus including image creation means (S 14 ) for creating an animated image of a character in accordance with shape data of the character (S 11 ) shifting with a...
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7589742 |
Random map generation in a strategy video game
The generation of a random map for use in a video game may involve a random value generation function, with weighted texture and/or object values to control whether certain textures and/or objects...
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7589740 |
Planetarium picture-creating apparatus and picture-creating method thereof
A planetarium apparatus of this invention memorizes a plurality of texture image data expressing conditions of a surface of an object in a picture memory by relating to the range of a distance from...
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7587338 |
Community service offering apparatus, community service offering method, program storage medium, and community system
A community system is disclosed which allows community service offering apparatus to exchange information with a plurality of user terminals connected by a network. The community service offering...
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7586491 |
Image display method and image display apparatus
This invention implements an image display technique capable of setting a display effect and providing a more effective display which reflects a feature in an image without performing any...
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7585224 |
Storage medium having game program stored therein and game apparatus
A game apparatus selects one of a plurality of characters as a selected character. The game apparatus also sets a position of a virtual camera in accordance with the position of the selected...
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7585215 |
Game device
Provided is a game device which determines the goal point pursuant to the game progress and not in advance. The game device 1 is a game for competing for game scores in accordance with the...
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7583276 |
Warping tool definition
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implement techniques for modifying an image. A warping tool has a perimeter having a shape and a size. The warping tool has one or more...
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7583275 |
Modeling and video projection for augmented virtual environments
Systems and techniques to implement augmented virtual environments. In one implementation, the technique includes: generating a three dimensional (3D) model of an environment from range sensor...
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7583262 |
Optimization of time-critical software components for real-time interactive applications
A method for optimizing the performance of a time-critical computation component for a real-time interactive application includes the use of an algorithm having a precise logical thread and at...
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7582016 |
Game system and game program
In a game system in which two related virtual game spaces are separately displayed on a first display device and a second display device, an object, contained in a first game space represented by a...
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7580821 |
Application programming interface for fluid simulations
A method is disclosed for executing a physics simulation in a system comprising a computational platform, a main application stored in the computational platform, a secondary application stored in...
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7574332 |
Apparatus and method for generating behaviour in an object
A hierarchical behavioral framework is used to generate and control autonomous and semi-autonomous behavior in an articulate object. A behavioral controller is arranged to receive input associated...
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7573479 |
Graphics processing device, graphics processing method, game machine, and storage medium
In a simulation game machine for play on the basis of images of three-dimensionally constituted terrain features and characters which are represented as if viewed from a prescribed camera within a...
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7573478 |
Multi-image-frame sprite recognition in animated sequences
Sprite identification in animated sequences is achieved by performing three separate but related procedures, namely (i) identification of the sprite, (ii) identification of the background and (iii)...
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7573477 |
System and method for activation-driven muscle deformations for existing character motion
A system and method for animating a character with activation-driven muscle deformation. External loads can be estimated through an iterative joint torque estimation process, and the external loads...
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7568170 |
Data processing setting apparatus, data processing setting method, data processing setting program, and computer readable recording medium recording the program
The present invention provides a data processing setting apparatus which allows a user to easily confirm a function, which has already been set, when setting a desired function from a plurality of...
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7567263 |
Brush for warping and water reflection effects
A system for generating a warping effect in an image having a plurality of regions, each associated with a distortion vector. The system includes a programmable processor; and a computer-readable...
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7567251 |
Techniques for creating facial animation using a face mesh
Techniques for creating facial animation using a face mesh are provided. The techniques include determining a face mesh sequence. A portion of the face mesh sequence is then fitted to an image of...
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7561159 |
Control of animation timeline
A method for controlling an animation timeline comprising the steps of determining the three-dimensional assets of the data in the animation timeline and, if required, converting the data...
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7559841 |
Pose detection method, video game apparatus, pose detection program, and computer-readable medium containing computer program
A technique is disclosed for detecting a pose of a player in a video game using an input image supplied by a camera. The technique involves calculating a frame difference and/or background...
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7557808 |
Image processing device and information recording medium
An image processing device for realizing more realistic pictures of explosions in video game devices and the like. Objects displaying such pictures of explosions are formed of spherical polygons (R...
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7557807 |
Visual simulation of weathering by y-ton tracing
An exemplary computer-implementable method includes providing a computer-generated object wherein the object has characteristics, emitting a computer-generated particle, determining if the particle...
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7555528 |
Systems and methods for virtually representing devices at remote sites
Methods and systems for virtually representing devices at remote sites are provided. Such methods may include registering information associated with a device, generating a virtual representation...
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7554549 |
System and method for tracking facial muscle and eye motion for computer graphics animation
A motion tracking system enables faithful capture of subtle facial and eye motion using a surface electromyography (EMG) detection method to detect muscle movements and an electrooculogram (EOG)...
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7554542 |
Image manipulation method and system
An animation system is made up of an audio analysis unit, having an audio output and a state change output, and a control unit having an input and an output, the input being constructed to receive...
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7549131 |
Method of controlling movement of a cursor on a screen and a computer readable medium containing such a method as a program code
The present invention relates to a method of controlling movement of a cursor on a screen and a computer readable medium containing such a method as a program code. When using a graphic program...
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7548248 |
Method and apparatus for image blending
Methods and apparatuses for blending two images using vector table look up operations. In one aspect of the invention, a method to blend two images includes: loading a vector of keys into a vector...
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7548243 |
Dynamic scene descriptor method and apparatus
A method for rendering a frame of animation includes retrieving scene descriptor data that specifies at least one object, wherein the object is associated with a first database query, wherein the...
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7548242 |
Systems and methods for integrating graphic animation technologies in fantasy sports contest applications
Systems and methods for integrating graphic animation technologies with fantasy sports contest applications are provided. This invention enables a fantasy sports contest application to depict plays...
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7548241 |
Determining a node path through a node graph
Determining a node path through a node graph includes modifying the node graph in accordance with a predetermined platform performance, performing a path finding process through the node graph to...
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7548237 |
System and method for managing visual structure, timing, and animation in a graphics processing system
A visual tree structure as specified by a program is constructed and maintained by a visual system's user interface thread. As needed, the tree structure is traversed on the UI thread, with changes...
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