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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2005
Lutz Gerhard, Seattle, WA (US);
Matthew J. Kotler, Kenmore, WA (US);
Stephen T. Wells, Seatttle, WA (US);
Thomas C. Underhill, Seattle, WA (US);
Alexandre Gueniot, Bouillargues, FR;
Lutz Gerhard, Seattle, WA (US);
Matthew J. Kotler, Kenmore, WA (US);
Stephen T. Wells, Seatttle, WA (US);
Thomas C. Underhill, Seattle, WA (US);
Alexandre Gueniot, Bouillargues, FR;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are provided for forming one or more animation sequences used in animating a graphic. A semantic model of one or more semantic elements corresponding to content data is received. A presentation model of one or more presentation elements corresponding to objects is received. A set of one or more mappings is determined. The set of one or more mappings includes a mapping of each of said semantic elements to one or more presentation elements. The set of one or more mappings are traversed in an ordering in accordance with a selected animation sequence type specifying a set of objects that animate together. One or more animation sequences are built when performing the traversing step using each of the one or more mappings by applying one or more rules in accordance with a particular classification associated with each of the one or more mappings.