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7617454 |
Accelerator handles
A method and apparatus is described to control velocity of object movement in a display device. A path is provided that the object will follow in the display. A plurality of handles are provided...
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7616204 |
Method of simulating dynamic objects using position based dynamics
Disclosed is a method of simulating a dynamic object comprising a plurality of vertices. The method comprises defining a current position and a current velocity for a vertex “v” among the...
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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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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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7612776 |
Functions acting on arbitrary geometric paths
A facility for evaluating a spreadsheet cell is described. The facility reads a function call stored in a spreadsheet cell. The function call specifies an arbitrary geometric path and an operation...
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7609271 |
Producing animated scenes from still images
A strategy is described for producing an animated scene from multiple high resolution still images. The strategy involves: creating a graph based on an analysis of similarity among the plural still...
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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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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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7589750 |
Methods and apparatus for arranging graphical objects
Methods and apparatus for arranging and aligning graphical objects are disclosed. The selection of a first graphical object in a graphical user interface is received, and it is determined if the...
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7589733 |
Layout element arranging device, layout element arranging method, layout element arranging program, computer readable recording medium, and electronic apparatus
Aspects of the invention can provide natural eye flow chasing images arranged on a path and fully give the feeling of being, liveliness and truthfulness, by matching a direction of the image and a...
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7589732 |
System and method of integrated spatial and temporal navigation
The system displays an image portraying a virtual space as viewed by a virtual camera at a first location on a spatially navigable camera surface within the virtual space. A user begins a drag...
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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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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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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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7570265 |
Sawtooth spline display
A computer-implemented method for displaying animation splines includes receiving a source spline formed of paths between a sequence of knots to define a path between a first and a second end knot,...
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7565608 |
Animation on object user interface
A system and method for graphically showing the animation order of animated elements in a presentation program or other software. The invention consists of a User Interface (UI) widget which shows...
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7565276 |
Method of simulating detailed movements of fluids using derivative particles
The method provides a new fluid simulation technique that significantly reduces the non-physical dissipation of velocity using particles and derivative information. In solving the conventional...
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7561160 |
Data editing program, data editing method, data editing apparatus and storage medium
A method of three-dimensionally displaying time-series data on a display screen of a display and editing the data, includes generating a time line expressing a lapse of time in a three-dimensional...
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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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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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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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7545379 |
Artist directed volume preserving deformation and collision resolution for animation
A computer-based animation method and system for deforming animated characters (people, animals, etc.) using a volume preserving and collision resolution process for the animation. Parts of a...
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7542040 |
Simulated locomotion method and apparatus
An apparatus for interfacing 3D movements of a user to control the locomotion of an avatar in a virtual environment includes a position tracker for tracking the position of a user's feet, with the...
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7532230 |
Method and system for communicating gaze in an immersive virtual environment
A method of communicating gaze. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention discloses a method of communicating gaze in an immersive virtual environment. The method begins by representing...
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7532217 |
Methods and systems for scoring multiple time-based assets and events
The methods and systems for scoring multiple time-based assets and events include declaratively playing a first media sequence; and declaratively initiating a second media sequence at a...
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7528835 |
Open-loop controller
An apparatus for controlling the movements of an avatar in a virtual environment includes a user input means, such as a gamepad with a plurality of joystick-controlled and button-controlled...
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7526724 |
Data processing apparatus and data processing method
A data processing apparatus is disclosed which processes audio visual (AV) data made up of video or audio data, the apparatus including: receiving means for receiving an edit command specifying how...
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7525546 |
Mixture model for motion lines in a virtual reality environment
Improved human-like realism of computer opponents in racing or motion-related games is provided by using a mixture model to determine a dynamically prescribed racing line that the AI driver is to...
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7518611 |
Extensible library for storing objects of different types
A library can store different types of multimedia objects, including effects (for example, behaviors, filters, fonts, and particle effects) and content (for example, audio clips, video clips, and...
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7515156 |
Method and apparatus for parallel speculative rendering of synthetic images
A method, apparatus and computer program product for parallel speculative rendering of synthetic images in an image rendering system are presented. The operations include obtaining measurements...
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7515155 |
Statistical dynamic modeling method and apparatus
A method for animating soft body characters has a preparation phase followed by an animation phase. In the preparation phase, the skin deformation of the character model is determined for a set of...
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7509590 |
Representing three-dimensional data
A machine-readable definition of a scene including three dimensional objects is represented. A schematic representation of the scene displays an object in which elements of the object are defined...
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7508393 |
Three dimensional animated figures
A system comprising a plurality of three dimensional artificially animated portraits for performing preprogrammed animations of voice and facial expressions in the form of a scripted dialogue...
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7505883 |
Computer simulation of body dynamics including a solver that solves in linear time for a set of constraints
Computer simulation of the dynamics of rigid bodies interacting through collisions, stacks and joints is performed using a constraint-based system in which constraints are defined in terms of the...
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7492371 |
Hardware animation of a bouncing image
A graphics controller for animating an overlay is described. The graphics controller includes a host interface for communicating with an external processor and a plurality of registers in...
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7483026 |
Method of displaying product and service performance data
An entertaining and informative method of displaying competitive product performance data is disclosed. The various embodiments include a method for displaying product performance data by use of...
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7479963 |
Method and system for performing computer graphic simulation of a fluid using target-driven control
Method and system for efficiently controlling animated smoke which utilizes a sequence of target smoke states to generate a smoke simulation in which the smoke is driven towards each of these...
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7477253 |
Storage medium storing animation image generating program
An animation image generating program is provided which allows animation images to be readily generated by CG without complicated setups, and more particularly the animation image generating...
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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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7464010 |
User interface design and evaluation system and hand interaction based user interface design and evaluation system
A user interface design and evaluation system and a hand-interaction-based user interface design and evaluation system are provided. The user interface design and evaluation system includes: a user...
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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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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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7453464 |
Text modification
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for modifying the appearance of a text object. A modification hierarchy includes a plurality of modifiers, selection functions, and/or...
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7450736 |
Monocular tracking of 3D human motion with a coordinated mixture of factor analyzers
Disclosed is a method and system for efficiently and accurately tracking three-dimensional (3D) human motion from a two-dimensional (2D) video sequence, even when self-occlusion, motion blur and...
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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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7450127 |
Method of tolerance-based trajectory planning
A method of controlling movement of a body at spaced apart instances along a trajectory in a multi-dimensional environment by determining a current position of the body at a current instance,...
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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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