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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2010
Frederic P. Pighin, Sausalito, CA (US);
Jerome Scholler, San Francisco, CA (US);
Frederic P. Pighin, Sausalito, CA (US);
Jerome Scholler, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A system includes a computing device that includes a memory configured to store instructions. The computing device also includes a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform a method that includes identifying a portion of a representation of a character in an animation. The identified portion is associated with a feature of the character to be represented in a reconstructed version of the animation. The method also includes compressing the identified portion of the character representation and other portions of the character representation to produce a model of the character that is capable of reconstructing the animation.