Visual and Physical Motion Sensing for Three-Dimensional Motion Capture

A system, comprising:

• a visual data collector for collecting visual information from a first image of at least a first feature of an object;
• a physical data collector for collecting sensor information provided by at least one sensor attached to the object;
• and
• a computer system including a motion data combiner for combining the visual information the sensor information, the motion data combiner is configured to determine the position of a representation of the first feature in a virtual representation of the object from the combined visual information and sensor information.

A system comprising:

• a visual data collector for collecting visual information from a plurality of images, wherein each image includes content that represents a plurality of markers attached to a body suit;
• a physical data collector for collecting sensor information provided by a plurality of inertial sensors also attached to the body suit;
• and
• a computer system including,
• a memory for storing the collected visual information and sensor information, and
• a processor for executing instructions that perform a method comprising,
• combining the visual information and the sensor information, and
• determining, for each image, the respective positions of representations of the plurality of markers in a virtual representation of a pose provided by the body suit from the combined visual information and sensor information.