US 11,232,626 B2Granted

System, method and apparatus for media pre-visualization

AssigneeTwenieth Century Fox Film Corporation

InventorJohn M. Griffith

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Abstract

There is provided a system for media pre-visualization. The system includes one or more motion capture sensors, a virtual digital renderer receiving sensor data from the one or more motion sensors capturing motions performed by an actor being directed by a user, and rendering the motions in a 3D virtual environment, according to the sensor data, to generate pre-visualization data including one or more shots, a display interfacing with the virtual digital renderer to receive the pre-visualization data, and displaying a pre-visualization using the pre-visualization data, and a controller interfacing with the virtual digital renderer, and while the user is directing the actor, allowing the user to navigate within the 3D virtual environment, using the pre-visualization on the display, and to modify at least one visual aspect of the one or more shots within the 3D virtual environment to generate modified pre-visualization data.

Claims30

Dependent claims

A system for media pre-visualization, the system comprising:

one or more motion capture sensors;
a virtual digital renderer configured to:
receive sensor data from the one or more motion sensors capturing motions performed by an actor being directed by a user;
and
render the motions in a three-dimensional virtual environment, according to the sensor data, to generate pre-visualization data including one or more shots;
a display configured to:
interface with the virtual digital renderer to receive the pre-visualization data;
and
display a pre-visualization using the pre-visualization data received from the virtual digital renderer;
a controller configured to:
interface with the virtual digital renderer;
and
while the user is directing the actor performing the motions being captured using the one or more motion capture sensors, allow the user to navigate within the three-dimensional virtual environment, using the pre-visualization displayed on the display, and to modify at least one visual aspect of the one or more shots of the pre-visualization data within the three-dimensional virtual environment to generate modified pre-visualization data.

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Facts

Application: 15/704,043Filed 14 Sep 2017 · continuation in part
Priority: 21 Dec 2011
Published: US 2018/0005430 A14 Jan 2018
Granted: 25 Jan 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

G06T 15/20
Geometric effects: perspective computation
A63F 9/24
Games not otherwise provided for: games using electronic circuits not otherwise provided for
A63F 13/285
Responding to control signals received from the game device for affecting ambient conditions, e.g. for vibrating players' seats, activating…
G06F 3/033
Arrangements for converting the position or the displacement of a member into a coded form: pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user ,…

Family

Application61/578,695Us provisional application · filed 21 Dec 2011
Application13/466,522Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 8 May 2012
Application61/644,022Us provisional application · filed 8 May 2012
Application61/644,066Us provisional application · filed 8 May 2012
US 2018/0005430 A1Pre-grant publication · published 4 Jan 2018
US 9,799,136 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2013/0162628 A1Published application
US 11,232,626 B2This patent

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