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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2001
Randall Ho, Berkeley, CA (US);
David Westwood, Palo Alto, CA (US);
James Stewartson, Oakland, CA (US);
Luciano Pasquale Agostino Nocera, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Ulrich F. Buddemeier, Venice, CA (US);
Gregory Patrick Lane Lutter, San Francisco, CA (US);
Hartmut Neven, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Randall Ho, Berkeley, CA (US);
David Westwood, Palo Alto, CA (US);
James Stewartson, Oakland, CA (US);
Luciano Pasquale Agostino Nocera, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Ulrich F. Buddemeier, Venice, CA (US);
Gregory Patrick Lane Lutter, San Francisco, CA (US);
Hartmut Neven, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Nevengineering, Inc., Sant Monica, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to a technique for generating an animated three-dimensional video head based on sensed locations of facial features and texture mapping of corresponding two dimensional video image frames onto a shaped head mesh generated using the sensed locations.