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US 8,542,236 B2Granted
Generating animation libraries
AssigneeLucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd.
InventorsSteve Sullivan, Francesco G. Callari
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Abstract
A computer-implemented method includes transferring motion information from one or more motion meshes to an animation mesh. The motion mesh represents the motion of surface features of an object. A shape mesh provides a portion of the shape of the object to the animation mesh.
Claims70
A computer-implemented method, the method comprising:
- transferring motion information in a processor from at least one motion mesh to an animation mesh, wherein the motion mesh represents the motion of surface features of an object represented by the animation mesh, a shape mesh provides a portion of the shape of the object to the animation mesh and influences the motion information provided by the motion mesh.
A system comprising:
- a computer system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a motion transferor to transfer motion information from at least one motion mesh to an animation mesh, wherein the motion mesh represents the motion of surface features of an object represented by the animation mesh, a shape mesh provides a portion of the shape of the object to the animation mesh and influences the motion information provided by the motion mesh.
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A computer program product tangibly embodied in a machine-readable storage device and comprising instructions that when executed by a processor perform a method comprising:
- transferring motion information from at least one motion mesh to an animation mesh, wherein the motion mesh represents the motion of surface features of an object represented by the animation mesh, a shape mesh provides a portion of the shape of the object to the animation mesh and influences the motion information provided by the motion mesh.
A motion capture system comprising:
- at least one device to capture a series of images of an object;
- and
- a computer system to execute at least one process to:
- generate at least one motion mesh that represents the motion of surface features of the object;
- and
- transfer the motion information of the motion mesh to an animation mesh for animation of the object being represented by the animation mesh, wherein a shape mesh provides a portion of the shape of the object to the animation mesh and influences the motion information provided by the motion mesh.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.