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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 6614435 | Method of control of playback of motion and program product and game system for same A method of control of playback of motion for playing back motion of a character more realistically, including determining a motion playback routine in accordance with a value of a parameter expressing the condition of the character, for example, a stress... | 09/02/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6203431 | Video game apparatus and memory medium used therefor A video game apparatus includes an external ROM. This external ROM is previously memorized with player object data, basic shadow object data and light object data. A direction in which a shadow is thrown is determined according to the player object data a... | 03/20/2001 |
| 5850229 | Apparatus and method for geometric morphing A method of geometric morphing between a first object having a first shape and a second object having a second shape. The method includes the steps of generating a first Delaunay complex corresponding to the first shape and a second Delaunay complex corre... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5818461 | Method and apparatus for creating lifelike digital representations of computer animated objects The present invention provides methods and apparatus for creating lifelike digital representations of three-dimensional objects. Steps and means are described by which an animator may efficiently select and combine a plurality of animated objects to gener... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5682520 | Array processor for morphological image processing The array processor includes a grid of individual morphological processing elements formed on a VLSI chip. Each element of the grid includes a photo-detector for directly sensing a pixel of an image projected upon the chip. A signal generated by the photo... | 10/28/1997 |
| 4558438 | Method and apparatus for dynamically displaying geo-physical information In a system for displaying geophysical information on a video screen, data representative of spaced subsurface strata are stored in a computer memory. The data are extracted, plane by plane, and data bytes representative of the planes are stored in pairs ... | 12/10/1985 |
