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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179396 | System and methods for rule-based volume rendition and navigation Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method for clinical presentation of a radiological study including: associating a customizable set of rules with image data corresponding to at least a portion of the radiological study; and rendering automatica... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8139068 | Three-dimensional animation of soft tissue of characters using controls associated with a surface mesh A face, as well as any other soft tissue of a character, can be animated much in the same way that a skeleton is animated by creating a soft tissue solver attached to the surface mesh. In particular, deformation objects are associated with regions of the surface mes... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134560 | Method for avatar wandering in a computer based interactive environment A method for avatar wandering in a computer based interactive environment including for each avatar within a range of a current avatar, obtaining profiles of a user represented by the avatar, for each profile of the user represented by the avatar that has a same pro... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8106910 | Method for correct reproduction of moving spatial images on a flat screen A method for correct reproduction of moving three-dimensional (3D) scenes observed by a viewer on displays showing moving three-dimensional scenes relating to video games, animated cartoons, simulators for drivers or pilots, etc. The main concept of the invention is... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8054312 | Material for motion capture costumes and props Capturing motion using motion capture cameras comprises: coupling a plurality of markers to an actor; allowing a material to be positioned between the actor and the motion capture cameras, wherein the material is selected to allow the motion capture cameras to captu... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8049757 | Image processing device, image processing method and information storage medium To control screen display using moving pictures for a plurality of users. Respective moving pictures for a plurality of users are acquired, and each of the acquired moving pictures are displayed on a screen. Display content for the screen is controlled... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8049758 | Sensing ball game machine A sensing baseball game apparatus (10) has a game machine (12) connected to a television monitor (18). A bat input device (32) is provided with an acceleration sensor. An acceleration signal is transmitted by an infrared-ray LED (34 | 11/01/2011 |
| 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 first photograph is called the “naked photo.” Using a graphics p... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8022954 | Programmable light beam shape altering device using separate programmable micromirrors for each primary color Three-digital micromirror devices (“DMD”) are used to alter the shape of light that is projected onto a stage. The DMDs each receive a primary color and selectively reflects some light of that color, thereby shaping the light that is projected onto the stage. Th... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8022955 | Operability verification apparatus, operability verification method, and computer-readable storage medium storing operability verification program An operability verification apparatus includes a work plane generation section that generates a work plane on a virtual space where a three-dimensional model of an equipment to be verified is disposed; a plane display section where a two-dimensional image on a work ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7999811 | Image processing device, method, and program, and objective function An image processing device that models, based on a plurality of frame images being results of time-sequential imaging of an object in motion, a motion of the object using a three-dimensional (3D) body configured by a plurality of parts is disclosed. The device inclu... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7973794 | Method and system for animating graphical user interface elements via a manufacturing/process control portal server A method and system are disclosed for rendering animated graphics on a browser client based upon a stream of runtime data from a manufacturing/process control system. The graphics animation is based upon an animated graphic display object specification and runtime d... | 07/05/2011 |
| 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 follow for a given segment of the race track. This dynamically prescri... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7932908 | Apparatus systems, and the methods for stimulating movement of a ball in response to a signal generated in an input device moved by a game player A sensing baseball game apparatus (10) has a game machine (12) connected to a television monitor (18). A bat input device (32) is provided with an acceleration sensor. An acceleration signal is transmitted by an infrared-ray LED (34 | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932909 | User interface for controlling three-dimensional animation of an object A user can control the animation of an object via an interface that includes a control area and a user-manipulable control element. The control area includes an ellipse. The user-manipulable control element includes a three-dimensional arrow with a straight body, a ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 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, and mathematically computes what needs to be done in order to ma... | 04/19/2011 |
| 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 motion capture data. The system includes a motion capture data storage,... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7911469 | Pose-based collision fly-papering: a method for simulating objects in computer animation Methods and an apparatus allow animators to control the extent by which scripted character motions affect simulated objects' motions. The simulated objects are connected to the character or non-simulated object, such as clothing or hair, and the motion of the simula... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911468 | Storage medium storing a program for controlling the movement of an object 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 movement of an object, a first virtual plane is used when a ball is an objec... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7876326 | Posing articulated models in contact with a surface A system and method enables animators to efficiently pose character models' feet. An initial foot model position is received. The initial foot model position specifies a foot model contact point. One or more foot roll parameters are specified that change the relativ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7868889 | Method of causing object to take motion using motion data A first display displays a game image which is generated by perspective transformation of a virtual three-dimensional space. A second display is provided under a touch panel to display an image of a two-dimensional plane excluding a height direction with a player ch... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7859540 | Reconstruction, retargetting, tracking, and estimation of motion for articulated systems A control system and method generate joint variables for motion or posing of a target system in response to observations of a source system. Constraints and balance control may be provided for more accurate representation of the motion or posing as replicated by the... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7852338 | Velocity drag: shape preservation of simulated objects in computer animation A method for preserving the shape of simulated objects includes receiving the velocity of a location associated with a simulated object and a velocity associated with a reference object. While the difference between the velocity of the location associated with the s... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7812841 | Display controlling apparatus, information terminal unit provided with display controlling apparatus, and viewpoint location controlling apparatus The object of the present invention can be achieved by a display controlling apparatus for displaying a plurality of information objects including an information object shown by a three-dimensional shape in a three-dimensional virtual space. In the display controlli... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7791608 | System and method of animating a character through a single person performance A method of animating a computer generated character in real-time through a single person performance is disclosed. The method provides a mobile input device configured to receive a hand puppetry movement as an input from a performer. Further, the method provides a ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7728839 | Discriminative motion modeling for human motion tracking A system and method recognizes and tracks human motion from different motion classes. In a learning stage, a discriminative model is learned to project motion data from a high dimensional space to a low dimensional space while enforcing discriminance between motions... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7728838 | Method and system for animating graphical user interface elements via a manufacturing/process control portal server A method and system are disclosed for rendering animated graphics on a browser client based upon a stream of runtime data from a manufacturing/process control system. The graphics animation is based upon an animated graphic display object specification and runtime d... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7710423 | Automatic layout of items along an embedded one-manifold path The coordinates for laying out visual items in two-, three-, or n-dimensional space along an embedded one-manifold or path are calculated and coordinates are generated for placement of the items in a container. A one-manifold may be continuous, discontinuous, be con... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7697004 | Method of animating a graphics character using fuzzy processing layers A computer implemented method of generating behavior of a graphics character within an environment including a selected graphics character and one or more graphics elements, the method comprising: generating an image of the environment from a perspective of the sele... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7667705 | 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, and mathematically computes what needs to be done in order to ma... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7649536 | System, method, and computer program product for utilizing natural motions of a user to display intuitively correlated reactions A system, method, and computer program product are provided for utilizing natural motions of a user to display intuitively correlated reactions. In use, an application-independent command is received from an input device utilizing at least one natural motion of a us... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7636093 | Parameterized motion paths A system and method for generating a conditional animation of an unknown object is described. In creating the animation, a representative starting point is designated for an object. A representative ending point is also selected by the designer for the object. The d... | 12/22/2009 |
| 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 plurality of vertices, generating an estimated next position for vertex ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 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 images; performing partial temporal order recovery to define a parti... | 10/27/2009 |
| 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 direction of the arrangement point or an acquisition time of the imag... | 09/15/2009 |
| 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 operation. Based on the dragging, the virtual camera is spatially transla... | 09/15/2009 |
| 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, where the knots are mapped to first second axes, identifying one or ... | 08/04/2009 |
| 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 space, placing the time-series data as a three-dimensional object alo... | 07/14/2009 |
| 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 (R1, R2, R3, . . . ) and planar polygons (S1 | 07/07/2009 |
| 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 foot motions including swinging and stroking; a computer programmed f... | 06/02/2009 |
