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This invention provides a pneumatic shoe lacing apparatus for the pneumatic lacing of shoe.
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| 7388586 | Method and apparatus for animation of a human speaker Methods and apparatus for representing speech in an animated image. In one embodiment, key point on the object to be animated are defined, and a table of trajectories is generated to map positions of the key points over time as the object performs defined actions ac... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7116341 | Information presentation apparatus and method in three-dimensional virtual space and computer program therefor An information presentation apparatus creates a three-dimensional animation of a specific object in a three-dimensional virtual space on the basis of the human characteristic of paying more attention to a moving object. A user's attention can be drawn to a specific ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7007119 | System and method for supporting split transactions on a bus System and method for supporting split transactions on a bus. The method may comprise processing a periodic frame list of external bus data frame by frame, and traversing each frame node by node. When a save place node is encountered in a first frame, the traversing... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6621499 | Video processor with multiple overlay generators and/or flexible bidirectional video data port A video processing device and method receives data from a common data source, such as a frame buffer and outputs first overlay information in a first color space from a first port and outputs second overlay information in a second color from a second port... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6462741 | Method and apparatus for creating animation having motion changing with passage of time as desired and computer-readable recording medium in which animation creating program is recorded A presenting time for an animation is determined as follows for each of a plurality of frames of the animation in passage of time at a prescribed speed which can be changed as desired. First, for each of the plurality of frames, a signal indicating a timi... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6307576 | Method for automatically animating lip synchronization and facial expression of animated characters A method for controlling and automatically animating lip synchronization and facial expressions of three dimensional animated characters using weighted morph targets and time aligned phonetic transcriptions of recorded text. The method utilizes a set of r... | 10/23/2001 |
| 5717848 | Method and apparatus for generating object motion path, method of setting object display attribute, and computer graphics system There are provided apparatuses for generating the motion path of an object. One apparatus includes an input unit for inputting information representative of the position of a start point of the motion of an object, at least one of the magnitude and direct... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5684942 | Image processing apparatus and method for generating a third image from first and second images An image processing apparatus and method for handling digital image data having tones, in which, for each of a plurality of types of digital image data that have been input, an area is set, the digital image data in each area set are transformed and digit... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5416899 | Memory based method and apparatus for computer graphics A memory based computer graphic animation system generates desired images and image sequences from 2-D views. The 2-D views provide sparse data from which intermediate views are generated based on a generalization and interpolation technique of the invent... | 05/16/1995 |
| 4600919 | Three dimensional animation The disclosure is directed to an improved method and apparatus for generating a sequence of video frames representative of three-dimensional animation. A plurality of key frames are stored, each key frame including a common figure having one or more joint... | 07/15/1986 |
