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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 actor; arranging a plurality of motion capture cameras around a peri... | 01/31/2012 |
| 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. Accordingly, simulation results can be “filtered” to repair, reduce, ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 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 provided: a model unaffected by a destructive or other process, and a fur... | 08/16/2011 |
| 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 method is characterized in that additional or interim images are generated... | 08/09/2011 |
| 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, and a rendering stage for generating full image frames at a first frame... | 08/02/2011 |
| 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 number of poses and shapes; and rendering the dynamic 3D object by int... | 04/05/2011 |
| 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 simulated object. One or more forces are generated to act on the simula... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7812842 | 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 least one mobile motion capture camera, the at least one mobile moti... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7804503 | Animating objects using metadata A design application uses metadata-based techniques (e.g., runtime reflection) to examine class metadata of design objects. A key object is provided by a programmer of a graphical design application to generically animate properties of design objects in one or more ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7573480 | System and method for capturing facial and body motion A system and method for capturing motion comprises a motion capture volume adapted to contain at least one actor having body markers defining plural body points and facial markers defining plural facial points. A plurality of motion cameras are arranged around a per... | 08/11/2009 |
| 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 related to animated objects and/or linear media in a scene graphs. T... | 10/28/2008 |
| 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 file, the extracted plurality of frame data are displayed on a display... | 10/07/2008 |
| 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 positions in horizontal or vertical directions based on information about th... | 10/07/2008 |
| 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 cache line and uncached pixels that are to be stored in the cache is ca... | 09/23/2008 |
| 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 apparatus provides a window which has a start point button, end point button... | 09/16/2008 |
| 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 object can be one of the following: a scene object; a behavior object; o... | 08/12/2008 |
| 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 video clips and transition effects are inserted into the corresponding ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 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 state. ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 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 attributes of an object. A second window is provided for spatially inserting... | 06/24/2008 |
| 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 setup corresponding to information related to the extracted renderin... | 06/03/2008 |
| 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, a graphics pipeline includes a texture memory and a graphics processo... | 06/03/2008 |
| 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 image; wherein the transition image is a function of the source valu... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7372905 | Filtering intensity decision method, moving picture encoding method, and moving picture decoding method A moving picture coding apparatus including an inter-pixel filter having the filters for filtering decoded image data so as to remove block distortion which is high frequency noise around block boundaries. The filters include a filter A114a, a filter B... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372464 | Processing image data A method of processing image data, in which object data is associated with animation data. The animation data has a plurality of keyframes, and each keyframe has a time value, an animation value and two handles. Adjacent keyframes are interpolated to produce a curve... | 05/13/2008 |
| 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: setting a first kernel based on a center pixel in pixel data arranged in... | 04/29/2008 |
| 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, which is pleasing to the user. This transitional effect includes chan... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362332 | System and method of simulating motion blur efficiently The present invention is related to rendering computer animated video and/or images generally, and to simulating motion blur efficiently in computer graphics. The present invention includes selecting a plurality of sample locations from which to sample an object sce... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358972 | System and method for capturing facial and body motion A system and method for capturing motion comprises a motion capture volume adapted to contain at least one actor having body markers defining plural body points and facial markers defining plural facial points. A plurality of body motion cameras and a plurality of f... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7353149 | Method and apparatus for simulating dynamic contact of objects Contact of rigid bodies is simulated with friction. A contact point is determined as a mid point between closest points on each body. An integrated relative velocity (IRV) vector is computed, and is minimized by applying forces to both bodies. If the IRV value excee... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7348984 | Image generating apparatus, database and storage medium An image generating apparatus is provided with an image generating part for generating a sequential character image by connecting a plurality of unit image groups which are respectively guaranteed to indicate one communication information, and a display part for dis... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7348991 | Video/graphics text mode enhancement method for digitally processed data A text enhancement unit is introduced in order to alleviate the degradation of text characters on computer or television displays. The text enhancement unit uses an enhancement process to regain uniformity and intensity that may be lost during image processing. The ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7345783 | 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 apparatus provides a window which has a start point button, end point button... | 03/18/2008 |
| 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 with the graphic directional indicator and generate a tweening anima... | 03/11/2008 |
| 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 least one mobile motion capture camera, the at least one mobile moti... | 02/19/2008 |
| 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 joint. A joint builder can specify parameters for each of the joint c... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333112 | Rig baking Model components can be used to pose character models to create a variety of realistic and artistic effects. An embodiment of the invention analyzes the behavior of a model component to determine a statistical representation of the model component that closely appro... | 02/19/2008 |
| 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 animation effects. For example, a graphical object may be decomposed ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 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 of the motion capture data is identified that corresponds to valid poi... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7317457 | Processing image data A method of processing image data, in which object data is associated with animation data. The animation data has a plurality of keyframes, and each keyframe has a time value, an animation value and two handles. Adjacent keyframes are interpolated to produce a curve... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7310627 | Method of searching for text in browser frames Methods, systems and articles of manufacture for searching content in frames. In general, information located at one or more networked addresses may be displayed to a user in two or more frames. The content of a frame may be searched by designating one frame as a de... | 12/18/2007 |
