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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2007
Applicant:
Demian Gordon, Culver City, CA (US);
Inventor:
Demian Gordon, Culver City, CA (US);
Assignees:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., Culver City, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/228 (2006.01); G06T 15/10 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Capturing a surface in motion picture, including: covering a surface with a pattern formed of a marking material; acquiring a sequence of image frames, each image frame of the sequence including a plurality of images of the pattern covering the surface; deriving a mesh object from the plurality of images for the each image frame; tracking the mesh object in each frame through the sequence of frames; and generating animation data modeling a characteristic of the surface using the tracked mesh object.