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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2009
Demian Gordon, Culver City, CA (US);
Remington Scott, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Parag Havaldar, Cerritos, CA (US);
Dennis J. Hauck, Jr., Hermosa Beach, CA (US);
Demian Gordon, Culver City, CA (US);
Remington Scott, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Parag Havaldar, Cerritos, CA (US);
Dennis J. Hauck, Jr., Hermosa Beach, CA (US);
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., Culver City, CA (US);
Abstract
Capturing and processing facial motion data includes: coupling a plurality of sensors to target points on a facial surface of an actor; capturing frame by frame images of the plurality of sensors disposed on the facial surface of the actor using at least one motion capture camera disposed on a head-mounted system; performing, in the head-mounted system, a tracking function on the frame by frame images of the plurality of sensors to accurately map the plurality of sensors for each frame; and generating, in the head-mounted system, a modeled surface representing the facial surface of the actor.