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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2017
Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd., San Francisco, CA (US);
Ronald Mallet, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Yuting Ye, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael Koperwas, San Francisco, CA (US);
Adrian R. Goldenthal, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kiran S. Bhat, San Francisco, CA (US);
LUCASFILM ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY LTD., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A system includes a computing device that includes a memory configured to store instructions. The system also includes a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform a method that includes receiving multiple representations of an object. Each of the representations includes position information of the object and corresponds to an instance in time. For at least one of the representations, the method includes defining a contour that represents a movable silhouette of a surface feature of the object. The method also includes producing a deformable model of the surface of the object from the defined contour and from the at least one representation of the object.