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US 10,372,790 B2Granted
System, method and apparatus for generating hand gesture animation determined on dialogue length and emotion
AssigneePlotagon AB Corporation
InventorsLinus Langels, Philip Edner, Jonas Löfgren
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Abstract
System, method and apparatuses directed to a paradigm of manuscript generation and manipulation combined with contemporaneous or simultaneous visualization of the text or other media being entered by the creator with emotion and mood of the characters being conveyed graphically through rendering. Through real time calculations, respective characters are graphically depicted speaking and interacting physically with other characters, pursuant to directive found in a manuscript text.
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A rendering tool for manuscript visualization comprising:
- an input interface, a user using said input interface to input at least one instruction for a manuscript, said manuscript describing a virtual environment representative of at least one scene in said manuscript with at least one scene character therein, said at least one instruction containing a character scene command,
- wherein said user inputs said at least one instruction in a first manuscript format, said manuscript being in said first manuscript format;
- a switch, said user using said switch to switch said manuscript from said first manuscript format to another manuscript format, wherein, after said switch to said another manuscript format, said user using said input interface inputs another instruction for said manuscript in said another manuscript format,
- wherein said user, after inputting said another instruction in said another manuscript format, using said switch, switches said manuscript back to said first manuscript format and, using said input interface, inputs a further instruction for said manuscript in said first manuscript format;
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- a synchronizer, said synchronizer synchronizing said character scene command in said at least one instruction to a rendering of a particular scene character in a given scene in said virtual environment,
- wherein said rendering in said virtual environment is independent of the manuscript format of said manuscript,
- whereby a non-verbal, visual feature of said particular scene character is altered by said character scene command, said non-verbal, visual feature being concurrently visualized in said another format.
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A method for rendering images in a visualization tool comprising:
- inputting, by a user into an input interface, at least one instruction for a manuscript, said manuscript describing a virtual environment representative of at least one scene in said manuscript with at least one scene character therein, said at least one instruction containing a character scene command;
- switching, by said user using a switch, said manuscript from a first manuscript format to another manuscript format;
- after said switching to said another manuscript format, said user using said input interface inputs another instruction for said manuscript in said another manuscript format,
- wherein said user, after inputting said another instruction in said another manuscript format, using said switch, switches said manuscript back to said first manuscript format and, using said input interface, inputs a further instruction for said manuscript in said first manuscript format;
- synchronizing, by a synchronizer, said character scene command in said at least one instruction to a rendering of a particular scene character in said virtual environment;
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- visualizing, in a visualization interface, said particular scene character altered by said character scene command,
- wherein said visualizing is independent of the format of said manuscript,
- whereby a non-verbal, visual feature of said particular scene character is altered by said character scene command, said non-verbal, visual feature being concurrently visualized in said another format.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.