Minolta Company, Ltd.

Yuzuru Tanaka

Osamu Toyama

Eiro Fujii

Fumiya Yagi

Tetsuya Katagiri

Hiroshi Uchino

Akira Yahashi

Tokio Kamimura

The present invention aims at realizing displaying of a realistic image of a conversation scene in which a speaker can be visually recognized by people watching this image regardless of the content of the image. To this end, according to the present invention, a two-dimensional or three-dimensional face model is deformed, and animations Athrough Awhich express a state in which a person is speaking are consequently created and displayed as auxiliary images.

Image displaying apparatus

A communication system for performing a remote conversation with an actual or fictional human or the like virtualized by using a computer comprises a client and a server, wherein the client includes an input portion for inputting a first message addressed from a user to the human or the like, a transmitting portion for transmitting the first message, a receiving portion for receiving facial animation of the human or the like and a second message that is a message sent from the human or the like to the user as a response to the first message, an output portion for outputting the second message to the user, and a display portion for displaying the facial animation; and the server includes a storing portion for storing facial image data of the human or the like, a receiving portion for receiving the first message, a first generating portion for generating the second message, a second generating portion for generating motion control data for causing the facial image data to move in accordance with the second message, a third generating portion for generating the facial animation based on the motion control data and the facial image data, and a transmitting portion for transmitting the second message and the facial animation.

Communication system and communication method using animation and server as well as terminal device used therefor

In order to reproduce a three-dimensional shape of an object accurately while maintaining measuring accuracy and high speed, in a three-dimensional measuring method of projecting a stripe pattern having colored stripes on the object and measuring the three-dimensional shape of the object based on stripe positions on the imaged image corresponding to the stripes on the stripe pattern, colors of the stripes on the stripe pattern are set according to a predetermined rule, and a plurality of stripes having a predetermined positional relationship are extracted from the image, and correspondence with stripes on the stripe pattern based on the color arrangement of the extracted plural stripes.

Three-dimensional measuring method and device, and computer program

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Ibaraki, Japan

Yuzuru Tanaka