US 2003/0142272 A1Published application

Animation production apparatus

AssigneeDenso Corporation

InventorsToshihide Ono, Keiji Mitsuyuki

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Abstract

In producing an animation by making a combination of basic motions of a moving body, an animation production apparatus acquires a type of each of the basic motions constituting a predetermined motion, acquires spatial data on an object, including the moving body, in a virtual space for each of the basic motions, produces key frames corresponding to each of the basic motions, acquires motion time information for each of the basic motions, produces an animation on the basis of the key frames and the motion time information, stores animation information including the spatial data and the motion time information in a state associated with each of the basic motions, extracts reusable information from the animation information for each of the basic motions at an alteration of an animation, and stores a previously produced motion procedure as a work model. This enables efficient and easy alteration of a produced animation.

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Dependent claims

An animation production apparatus which makes a combination of basic motions each constituting a minimum unit of a motion of a moving body to produce an animation in which said moving body makes a predetermined motion in a virtual space in accordance with a predetermined motion procedure, comprising:

basic motion acquiring means for acquiring a type of each of said basic motions constituting said predetermined motion;
spatial data acquiring means for acquiring spatial data forming positional information on an object, including said moving body, in said virtual space for each of said basic motions;
key frame producing means for producing a key frame corresponding to each of said basic motions;
motion time information acquiring means for acquiring motion time information including a motion time taken for each of said basic motions and a motion start time of each of said basic motions;
animation producing means for producing an animation on the basis of said key frame and said motion time information according to a key frame method;
animation information storing means for storing animation information including said spatial data and said motion time information in a state associated with each of said basic motions;
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reusable information extracting means for extracting reusable information from said animation information for each of said basic motions at an alteration of said animation.

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