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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2016
Electronic Arts Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Ben Folsom Carter, Jr., Longwood, FL (US);
Fabio Zinno, Vancouver, CA;
Electronic Arts Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of systems disclosed herein reduce or eliminate artifacts or visible discrepancies that may occur when transitioning from one animation to another animation. In certain embodiments, systems herein identify one or more pose or reference features for one or more objects in a frame of a currently displayed animation. Although not limited as such, often the one or more objects are characters within the animation. Systems herein can attempt to match the reference features for the one or more objects to reference features of corresponding objects in a set of potential starting frames for a second animation that is to start being displayed. The potential starting frame with reference features that are an acceptable match with the current frame of the current animation may be selected as a starting frame for playing the second, animation potentially resulting in a smoother transition than starting from the first frame.