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7629977 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...
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...
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...
7606411 Robotic gesture recognition system  
A gesture recognition system enabling control of a robotic device through gesture command by a user is provided, comprising a robotic unit, a video or infrared camera affixed to the robotic unit,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
7536031 Temporal interpolation of a pixel on basis of occlusion detection  
A method of determining a value for a particular pixel of a particular image being temporarily located intermediate a first image and a second image is disclosed. The method comprises: computing a...
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...
7525550 Controller driver, mobile terminal using the same, and display panel driving method  
A controller driver includes a color palette circuit configured to hold color palette data indicating a relation of a color reference numbers corresponding to a color and RGB data corresponding to...
7522165 Method and system for a computer-rendered three-dimensional mannequin  
A human body is three-dimensionally reproduced to create a computer-rendered model. The model is dynamically manipulable to adjust or customize the dimensions of the model to specified...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
7432931 Apparatus and method for processing image signal and image display apparatus utilizing the same  
An apparatus for processing an image signal prevents burn-in of display devices such as a PDP and an LCD. A number-of-pixels conversion section generates pixel data located at interpolation...
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...
7427990 Data replacement method and circuit for motion prediction cache  
A system for decoding a video bitstream and a method for replacing image data in a motion prediction cache are described. For each of the cache lines, a tag distance between pixels stored in the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
7382373 Method and apparatus for producing animation  
In some embodiments, a method includes generating blurred copies of an object by applying multi-texturing to the object during one pass through a graphics processing pipeline. In some embodiments,...
7382372 Apparatus and method for creating moving picture  
The present invention extracts information related to rendering from structured scenario description 101 that describes information related to objects and the rendering, extracts a rendering...
7379065 Display of images and image transitions  
The present invention consists of a method comprising the steps of displaying an image representing a source value; displaying an image representing a destination value; and displaying a transition...
7366347 Edge detecting method  
There is provided an edge detecting method, which is capable of preventing a noise influence caused by imaging device and a color interpolation. The edge detecting method includes the steps of:...
7362331 Time-based, non-constant translation of user interface objects between states  
The present invention relates to a method for moving objects within the graphical user interface (GUI) of an operating system in a manner that provides a transitional effect between window states,...
7342586 System and method for creating and playing a tweening animation using a graphic directional indicator  
A system and method for creating and playing tweening animations allows a user to simply draw a graphic directional indicator, e.g., an arrow, in a computer environment to associate graphic objects...
7333113 Mobile motion capture cameras  
A system for capturing motion comprises: a motion capture volume configured to include at least one moving object having markers defining a plurality of points on the at least one moving object; at...
7333111 Joint component framework for modeling complex joint behavior  
A general joint component framework that is capable of exhibiting complex behaviors of joints in articulated figures is provided. A network of joint components is used to model the kinematics of a...
7327368 Methods and apparatus for supporting and implementing computer based animation  
The present invention provides a method for hierarchically decomposing a visual or audio object within an animation into plurality of objects which can be individually edited to achieve particular...
7324110 Method and system for cleaning motion capture data  
A system and method for cleaning a set of motion capture data, wherein the data correspond to a set of point coordinates relating to a model but may include missing or inaccurate values. A subset...
7295173 Image display method  
An image display method including dividing an original image for one frame period into a plurality of subfield images, arranging the subfield images in a direction of a time axis in an order of...
7275037 System and method for generating a service level agreement template  
A system and method for generating a service level agreement (SLA) template are disclosed. The SLA template generated by the disclosed system enables deployment of resources to support a number of...
7259764 Defrobulated angles for character joint representation  
The present invention includes a method and apparatus for representing joint rotations of character models that eliminates the artifacts imposed by the ambiguities inherent in four angle rotations....
7224853 Method and apparatus for resampling data  
A set of known data samples are identified and an approximation of an original function from which the known data samples were obtained is created. The approximation function is then resampled to...
RE39652 Multi-media information record device, and a multi-media information playback device  
A CD-ROM 201 for recording multi-media information of at least one page stream. Contents of each page stream are successively recorded in the storage areas in the CD-ROM 201. The following...
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