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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2000
Filed:
May. 08, 1997
Hiroshi Kaneko, Mitaka, JP;
Kaneko Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi Software Engineering Co., Ltd., Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Abstract
The apparatus for creating an animation program can create animation programs for use with game software and presentations with high efficiency, without requirements for a high degree of programming techniques. The animation program creating apparatus has a moving image drawing device with a program storing circuit for storing animation programs, a character image drawing circuit for drawing character images, and a background image drawing circuit for drawing background images, which is further provided with an image input unit for entering animating image information, an image editing unit for editing the animating image information entered by the image input unit, an animation management circuit for managing multiple pieces of the entered image information by creating an animation program in an image-drawing unit of drawing an image by sorting the multiple pieces of the entered image information in a time series and by providing the animation program with an animation number, and an operating unit for operating the moving image drawing device to reproduce the animation program created.