Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

The Texas A&m University System

Dokyoon Kim

Jeonghwan Ahn

Keechang Lee

Sangoak Woo

Seyoon Tak

Shinjun Lee

Heesae Lee

Mahnjin Han

Nikolay Yurievich Gerasimov

Inwoo Ha

Byongmin Kang

Huajun Liu

Jinxiang Chai

Xiaolin Wei

Taehyun Rhee

Hongseok Lee

Jungwoo Kim

Gyeongja Jang

Alexy Ignatenko

Maxim Fedyukov

Vladimir Sergeevich Belyaev

Vladislav Germanovich Shubnikov

Jeonghwan c/o 103-1007 Dongsuwon Lg Village Ahn

Keechang c/o 503-1101 Samsung 5-Cha Apt Lee

Woo c/o 508-1303 Gongjak Maeul Lucky Sangoak

A method of acquiring a depth image and an image acquiring apparatus. The method of acquiring the depth image includes receiving a plurality of phase images with respect to a subject, the plurality of phase images having phases different from one another, eliminating noise from the plurality of phase images, and acquiring the depth image with respect to the subject utilizing the plurality of phase images from which noise has been eliminated.

Method of acquiring depth image and image acquiring apparatus using thereof

Provided are methods and apparatuses generating a color image and a depth image by using a first filter that transmits light in multiple wavelength bands and a second filter that transmits light in a particular wavelength band that is included in multiple wavelength bands.

Method and apparatus generating color and depth images

A processing apparatus for creating an avatar is provided. The processing apparatus calculates skeleton sizes of joints of the avatar and local coordinates corresponding to sensors attached to a target user, by minimizing a sum of a difference function and a skeleton prior function, the difference function representing a difference between a forward kinematics function regarding the joints with respect to reference poses of the target user and positions of the sensors, and the skeleton prior function based on statistics of skeleton sizes with respect to reference poses of a plurality of users.

Processing apparatus and method for creating avatar

A data processing apparatus is used for motion synthesis. A preprocessing unit of the data processing apparatus calculates a mixture of factor analysis (MFA) parameter by applying an energy minimized optimization algorithm to motion capture data acquired in advance and stored in a motion database (DB). When a motion probability distribution model is generated as described above, a calculating unit of the data processing apparatus synthesizes a motion corresponding to input motion sensing data by applying the input motion sensing data to the motion probability distribution model.

Data processing apparatus and method for motion synthesis

A method and apparatus for rendering 3D graphics data. The method includes analyzing a characteristic of input 3D graphics data, reconstructing a rendering function based on the analyzed characteristic, and rendering the input 3D graphics data using the reconstructed rendering function. The characteristic of 3D graphics data to be rendered is analyzed and a rendering function is reconstructed only using code blocks corresponding to the analyzed characteristic, thereby minimizing the size of the rendering function.

Method and apparatus for rendering 3D graphics data

A method, apparatus, and medium for transforming a graphic data of an object and a computer readable recording medium storing a program for executing the method are provided. The method includes; determining at least one triangle to be collapsed among one or more triangles comprised in the object, determining a collapsing vertex to be created by collapsing the at least one triangle, and transforming the graphic data of the object based on information regarding the at least one triangle determined to be collapsed and information regarding the determined collapsing vertex. Thus, a large three-dimensional object can be efficiently rendered with a small amount of resources.

Method, apparatus, and medium for transforming graphic data of an object

A method, apparatus and medium to render three-dimensional (3D) objects for 3D graphics. The method includes detecting the presence of a motion by performing local coordinate calculations with respect to each 3D object, performing global coordinate calculations with respect only to objects that each has a motion among the 3D objects, and rendering 3D objects for which local and global coordinate calculations have been performed.

Method, apparatus, and medium for efficiently rendering 3D object

A method and apparatus for processing a query required for 3-dimensional (3D) display, for example, a visibility query and a localization query, are provided. The method includes: dividing a 3D space into a plurality of regions; and processing a query in units of divided regions, detecting desired divided regions for processing the query of all the divided regions, and outputting objects included in the detected divided regions, as the result of processing the query. According to the method and apparatus, an entire 3D space is divided into a plurality of regions, and when a query required for 3D display or for running a game using 3D display is processed, a query is made to be processed in units of divided regions, and thus the amount of calculation and time required for processing the query can be reduced. Accordingly, performance of 3D display or the performance of a game using 3D display can be improved.

Method and apparatus for efficiently handling query for 3D display

A method of generating and recovering three-dimensional (3D) compression data and an apparatus to perform the method is described. The method includes generating configuration information of a 3D compression data sequence, generating a plurality of pieces of individual 3D compression data to be included in the 3D compression data sequence, and generating the 3D compression data sequence by combining the plurality of pieces of the individual 3D compression data, combining the 3D compression data sequence with the configuration information, and outputting the combined result. The generating of each of the plurality of pieces of individual 3D compression data includes generating individual configuration information of the piece of individual 3D compression data, generating a start code according to a data type of the piece of individual 3D compression data, and generating the 3D compression data according to the data type.

Methods and apparatuses for generating and recovering 3D compression data

An animation reproducing apparatus and method of reproducing an animation reproduces an animation of a predetermined model. The animation reproducing apparatus includes a motion blending unit blending one or more previously prepared animations according to a desired motion that is to be reproduced and a rendering unit rendering a result of the blending.

Animation reproducing apparatus and method

An apparatus for three-dimensionally visualizing two-dimensional flyover data in a three-dimensional graphics environment includes an overlapped region separation unit, a triangulation unit, a height coordinate addition unit, and a visualization unit. The division lines are selectively applied to a polygon to separate overlapped regions from the polygon, an ear cutting algorithm is applied to triangulate the polygon, and various different visualization processes are performed on different portions of the flyover data.

Method, apparatus, and medium for three-dimensionally transforming and visualizing two-dimensional flyover data in three-dimensional graphics environment

An apparatus and method for displaying topography around a position of a mobile object such as a vehicle in 3-dimensional graphics. The method includes predicting a candidate region for the mobile object's position at a display time after a predetermined period of time using current position and motion information of the mobile object; loading 3-dimensional graphic data corresponding to the predicted candidate region to memory; and rendering and displaying data corresponding to a region around a position of the mobile object at the display time among the 3-dimensional graphic data loaded to the memory.

Apparatus and method for displaying 3-dimensional graphics

A depth image-based modeling method and apparatus. A depth information-based modeling method using a three-dimensional (3D) polygonal mesh includes: extracting a bounding volume (BV) for the 3D polygonal mesh; obtaining a 3D grid by dividing the BV using a plurality of sampling lines; selecting some of a plurality of vertices of the 3D grid that intersect the 3D polygonal mesh as valid vertices; obtaining depth information and color information of the valid vertices by using a plurality of vertices of the 3D polygonal mesh; and modeling an object using the depth information and the color information of the valid vertices.

Depth image-based modeling method and apparatus

A method of generating procedural textures for a plurality of natural phenomena, and an apparatus to perform the method, the method including inputting a set of common parameters required to represent the plurality of natural phenomena; inputting a set of specific parameters required to represent physical properties of at least one of the natural phenomena; generating a noise value using the common parameters and the specific parameters; determining which procedural texture is to be generated according to the common parameters; and generating the procedural texture according to the determination results using the noise value, the common parameters, and the specific parameters.

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