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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017
Filed:
May. 17, 2013
The University of North Carolina AT Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Gregory Welch, Longwood, FL (US);
Kurtis P. Keller, Hillsborough, NC (US);
Andrei State, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Henry Fuchs, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Ryan Edward Schubert, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for utilizing synthetic animatronics are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method for synthetic animatronics includes providing a display surface having different regions that accommodate different positions or deformations of a subject, mapping images of the subject to the different regions on the display surface, and displaying the mapped images on the different regions of the display surface at different times in accordance with a desired animation of the subject.