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8184102 |
Finger gesture recognition for touch sensing surface
Touch sensor methods, devices and systems are disclosed. One embodiment of the present invention pertains to a method comprising monitoring a finger movement along a touch sensing surface based on...
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8184122 |
System and method for video choreography
An electronic entertainment system for creating a video sequence by executing video game camera behavior based upon a video game sound file includes a memory configured to store an action...
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8169438 |
Temporally coherent hair deformation
In various embodiments, deformations caused by kinematic or reference objects to secondary objects such as hair or fur may be computed in parallel using a temporally coherent deformation technique....
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8164590 |
Methods and apparatus for determining high quality sampling data from low quality sampling data
A method for a computer system includes determining a plurality of illumination modes associated with a plurality of scene descriptors, wherein the plurality of scene descriptors includes a first...
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8164596 |
Style sheet animation creation tool with timeline interface
Techniques are provided for automatically creating style sheet animations including keyframe information. In some embodiments, a style sheet animation creation tool with a timeline-based interface...
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8159504 |
System and method for presenting an avatar
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an avatar engine having a controller to retrieve a user profile, present a user an avatar having...
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8154545 |
Method for producing technical drawings from 3D models with at least two colliding 3D bodies
The invention relates to a method and a computer-aided modelling system for creating a technical drawing from at least two modelled 3D bodies that collide with one another. In a first step, one or...
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8144155 |
Example-based motion detail enrichment in real-time
An approach to enrich skeleton-driven animations with physically-based secondary deformation in real time is described. To achieve this goal, the technique described employs a surface-based...
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8139067 |
Shape completion, animation and marker-less motion capture of people, animals or characters
Motion capture animation, shape completion and markerless motion capture methods are provided. A pose deformation space model encoding variability in pose is learnt from a three-dimensional (3D)...
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8134558 |
Systems and methods for editing of a computer-generated animation across a plurality of keyframe pairs
Systems and methods for editing of a computer-generated animation across a plurality of keyframe pairs are provided. Embodiments enable time editing across a plurality of non-roving keyframe pairs....
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8134552 |
Method, apparatus, and medium for efficiently rendering 3D object
A method, apparatus and medium to render three-dimensional (3D) objects for 3D graphics. The method includes detecting the presence of a motion by performing local coordinate calculations with...
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8126293 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program
In the present invention, there is provided an image processing apparatus including: a detecting section configured to detect a motion vector from an input image signal acting as the image signal...
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8115771 |
System and method for multilevel simulation of animation cloth and computer-readable recording medium thereof
A system for multilevel simulation of an animation cloth is provided. The system includes a multilevel area generation module, a curvature calculation module, a curvature comparison module, and a...
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8115772 |
System and method of customizing animated entities for use in a multimedia 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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8111429 |
Apparatus and method for dithering for multi-toning
A method and apparatus for dithering for multi-toning are provided. The apparatus includes a mask-pattern-generating unit that generates a mask pattern on R channel, G channel and B channel by...
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8111258 |
Information processing program and information processing apparatus
As a virtual plane used when converting a designation point, which is a touched position on a touch panel, into a control point, in a virtual three dimensional space, used for controlling a...
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8106911 |
Mobile motion capture cameras
Capturing motion, including: coupling at least one body marker on at least one body point of at least one actor; coupling at least one facial marker on at least one facial point of the at least one...
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8106925 |
System to compose pictorial/video image contents with a face image designated by the user
A system for composing pictorial/video image contents where the Face Image which the User designates (FIU) is reflected is disclosed. The system provides a series of pictorial/video image composing...
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8054313 |
Simulation repair
In various embodiments, the motion of simulated or secondary objects, such as the motion of cloth, of computer imagery and computer generated animations may be viewed as a time-varying signal....
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8044962 |
Inversion of post-skinning features
A computer-implemented method includes identifying a representation of a feature of an animated character by inverting an skinned representation of the feature in one position. The inversion...
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8035644 |
Method for embedding animation in electronic mail and websites
Provided is a method for providing animation in electronic communications. An image is generated by capturing multiple photographs from a camera or video camera typically fixed in one position. The...
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8035643 |
Animation retargeting
Systems and methods are described, which create a mapping from a space of a source object (e.g., source facial expressions) to a space of a target object (e.g., target facial expressions). In...
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8031191 |
Apparatus and method for generating rendering data of images
An image processing apparatus for sequentially generating rendering data of a plurality of images composing a moving image, comprising a velocity vector detecting unit for detecting a velocity...
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8026917 |
Development tools for animated character rigging
Computer-implemented methods and computer program products for automatically transferring expressions between rigs with consistent joint structure, and for automatically transferring skin weights...
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8026918 |
Controlling communications with proximate avatars in virtual world environment
A first user's avatar in a virtual world environment may be controlled by using a virtual world application enabling access to a virtual world environment within which the first user has an avatar...
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8004529 |
Processing an animation file to provide an animated icon
A method for processing an animation file to provide an animated icon to an instant messaging environment is presented. An animation file is reformatted to generate the animated icon to satisfy a...
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7999812 |
Locality based morphing between less and more deformed models in a computer graphics system
Locality based morphing in a computer graphics system provides efficient techniques for simulating or animating position-based changes including but not limited to deformations. Two models are...
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7995065 |
Animation reproducing apparatus and method
An animation reproducing apparatus and method of reproducing an animation reproduces an animation of a predetermined model. The animation reproducing apparatus includes a motion blending unit...
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7995066 |
Method of displaying images
The present invention relates to a method for image reproduction, in particular for single or serial medical exposures, whereby one or more main images are reproduced on a display device. The...
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7990388 |
Verification of animation in a computing device
Methods and systems of verifying an animation applied in a mobile device may include a timer module that is programmed to time-slice the animation into multiple scenes at predetermined time points...
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7990389 |
Graphic system comprising a pipelined graphic engine, pipelining method and computer program product
A graphic system includes a pipelined graphic engine for generating image frames for display. The pipelined graphic engine includes a geometric processing stage for performing motion extraction,...
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7990387 |
Method and apparatus for spawning projected avatars in a virtual universe
The present invention provides a computer implemented method and apparatus to project a projected avatar associated with an avatar in a virtual universe. A computer receives a command to project...
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7985136 |
Image producing device, speed expressing method, and program
An operation input reception unit (201) receives an operation input for a virtual vehicle. A running condition managing unit (203) manages the running condition of the virtual vehicle based on the...
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7965294 |
Key frame animation with path-based motion
Techniques that give animators the direct control they are accustomed to with key frame animation, while providing for path-based motion. A key frame animation-based interface is used to achieve...
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7965295 |
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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7956862 |
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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7937253 |
Virtual prototyping system and method
A computer method for simulating motion of at least a portion of a virtual body is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: providing a surfaced body model; capturing or computing motion data...
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7936950 |
Apparatus for creating interpolation frame
An area detecting unit detects a first matching area in a first reference block in the first reference frame, a second matching area in a second reference block in the second reference frame. A...
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7928986 |
System and method for controlling animation by tagging objects within a game environment
A game developer can “tag” an item in the game environment. When an animated character walks near the “tagged” item, the animation engine can cause the character's head to turn toward the item, a...
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7924286 |
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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7920143 |
Method for defining animation parameters for an animation definition interface
A system and a computer-readable medium are provided for controlling a computing device to define a set of computer animation parameters for an object to be animated electronically. An electronic...
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7920144 |
Method and system for visualization of dynamic three-dimensional virtual objects
A method for visualization of dynamic three-dimensional (3D) virtual objects comprises storing a plurality of static 3D key-models respectively describing a dynamic 3D object in at least one of a...
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7916143 |
System and method for producing locomotion animation
Provided are a system and a method that automatically produce natural locomotion animation without an applicable discontinuity portion with respect to various moving distance and timing by using...
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7903115 |
Animations
At least certain embodiments of the present disclosure include a method for animating a display region, windows, or views displayed on a display of a device. The method includes starting at least...
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7872654 |
Animating hair using pose controllers
The present invention deforms hairs from a reference pose based on one or more of the following: magnet position and/or orientation; local reference space position (e.g., a character's head or...
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7872653 |
Mesh puppetry
This disclosure describes a variational framework for detail-preserving skinned mesh manipulation or deformation. The skinned mesh deformation occurs by optimizing skeleton position and vertex...
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7864181 |
Shape friction: shape preservation of simulated objects in computer animation
A method for simulating objects includes receiving a target shape associated with a simulated object. A difference is determined between the target shape and a measured shape associated with the...
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7862431 |
Storage medium storing a game program, game apparatus, and game control method
A video game apparatus includes a CPU, and the CPU allows a game to proceed according to input data transmitted from a controller performed a swing operation by a player. When a ball hit by a...
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7864180 |
Methods and apparatus for auto-scaling properties of simulated objects
A method for auto-scaling properties of simulated objects includes receiving a metric associated with a reference object. A value associated with a property of a simulated object is adjusted in...
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7864194 |
Systems and methods for motion adaptive filtering
Methods and systems for motion adaptive filtering detect movement of text or areas of high spatial frequency in one frame to another frame of an image. When such movement is detected and meets a...
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