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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2001
Peter J. Hunter, Auckland, NZ;
Poul F. Nielsen, Auckland, NZ;
David Bullivant, Auckland, NZ;
Mark Sagar, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Paul Charette, Valencia, CA (US);
Serge Lafontaine, Lincoln, MA (US);
Peter J. Hunter, Auckland, NZ;
Poul F. Nielsen, Auckland, NZ;
David Bullivant, Auckland, NZ;
Mark Sagar, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Paul Charette, Valencia, CA (US);
Serge LaFontaine, Lincoln, MA (US);
Auckland UniServices Limited, Auckland, NZ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus is disclosed in which one or more standard faces are transformed into a target face so as to allow expressions corresponding to the standard face(s) to be used as animation vectors by the target face. In particular, a non-linear morphing transformation function is determined between the standard face(s) and the target face. The target face animation vectors are a function of the morphing transformation function and the animation vectors of the standard face(s).