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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2000
Masao Okada, Soka, JP;
Katsuhiko Kondo, Funabashi, JP;
Isao Maruoka, Chiba, JP;
Akihiro Yokota, Tokyo, JP;
Masao Okada, Soka, JP;
Katsuhiko Kondo, Funabashi, JP;
Isao Maruoka, Chiba, JP;
Akihiro Yokota, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Aptex Kabushiki Kaisha, Ibaraki, JP;
Tacmi Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention enables relatively easy animation display without requiring a special resource, and facilitates easy generation of the animation. When an image to be displayed as animation is constructed with a background, leg, body and head, these images are distributed as a layer. For each layer, a timing schedule is set with attribute data which includes display update timing and display effects. According to the schedule, display for each layer is updated at the scheduled timing.