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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2010
Bong-cheol Park, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Sung-gun Jung, Anyang-si, KR;
Hyo-won Kim, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Moon-ho Park, Seoul, KR;
Du-na OH, Seoul, KR;
Bong-cheol Park, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Sung-gun Jung, Anyang-si, KR;
Hyo-won Kim, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Moon-ho Park, Seoul, KR;
Du-na Oh, Seoul, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for generating an animation of a virtual character using video data and a limited number of three-dimensional (3D) key models of a virtual character, are provided. The video data includes a sequence of two-dimensional image frames. The key models are blended together using the calculated weights, and a 3D facial expression most similar to the 2D facial expression included in each image frame may be generated. When the above operations are performed for input video data including a sequence of image frames, a facial animation, which makes facial expressions according to facial expressions included in the video data may be created.