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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2010
Kenichiro Nakagawa, Tokyo, JP;
Makoto Hirota, Tokyo, JP;
Rei Ishikawa, Wako, JP;
Masayuki Ishizawa, Yokohama, JP;
Kenichiro Nakagawa, Tokyo, JP;
Makoto Hirota, Tokyo, JP;
Rei Ishikawa, Wako, JP;
Masayuki Ishizawa, Yokohama, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus designs an animation expressing a transition of display forms of an object. A reception unit receives an operation for setting key frames in the animation at one or more time points on a time axis displayed on a screen, the time axis corresponding to the animation, and instructs a display form of the object at each of the set key frames. The reception unit receives, in a state when one or more key frames are set on the time axis and a display form of the object is instructed at each of the set key frames, an instruction for reflecting a display form of the object instructed to a first key frame of an already set one or more key frames as a display form of the object at a second key frame set on the time axis. A display control unit displays indicators representing the key frames.