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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2021
Applicant:
Unity Technologies Sf, San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventors:
Byung Kuk Choi, Wellington, NZ;
Gergely Klár, Wellington, NZ;
Assignee:
UNITY TECHNOLOGIES SF, San Francisco, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 13/40 (2011.01); G06T 17/20 (2006.01); G06V 40/16 (2022.01); G06N 3/045 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 13/40 (2013.01); G06N 3/045 (2023.01); G06T 17/20 (2013.01); G06V 40/176 (2022.01);
Abstract
An animation system wherein scanned facial expressions are processed to form muscle models based on live actors combines muscle models over a plurality of live actors to form a facial rig usable for generating expressions based on specification of a strain vector and a control vector of a muscle model for varying characters corresponding to live actors.