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| 20090153551 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING POSE OF 3-DIMENSIONAL CHARACTERS - A method for transferring a pose from an original digital character to a newly-created digital character, includes: deriving constraints from a pose of the original character; modeling pose characteristics of each joint of the newly-created character as a probability distribution function having an input variable of a rotation angle of corresponding joint; and modeling pose characteristics of all joints of the newly-created character as a joint probability distribution function having input variables of rotation angles of corresponding joints. The method further includes extracting, based on the joint probability distribution function, the rotation angles of all joints of the newly-created character to thereby create a pose of the newly-created character, the rotation angles satisfying the constraints. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090153568 | LOCOMOTION GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DIGITAL CREATURE - A locomotion generation method for a digital creature includes: imaging and capturing movements of a creature placed on a base plate having a printed pattern; extracting body position information, body posture information, leg posture information, and footprint information of the creature by analyzing captured images; and generating creature movement by applying inverse kinematics to the body position information, the body posture information, the leg posture information, and the footprint information of the creature. The movements of the creature are imaged and captured by using two or more cameras without camera calibration | 06-18-2009 |
| 20100119109 | MULTI-CORE MULTI-THREAD BASED KANADE-LUCAS-TOMASI FEATURE TRACKING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A multi-core multi-thread based Kanade-Lucas-Tomasi (KLT) feature tracking method includes subdividing an input image into regions and allocating a core to each region; extracting KLT features for each region in parallel and in real time; and tracking the extracted features in the input image. Said extracting the features is carried out based on single-region/multi-thread/single-core architecture, while said tracking the features is carried out based on multi-feature/multi-thread/single-core architecture. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100134494 | REMOTE SHADING-BASED 3D STREAMING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A remote shading-based three-dimensional (3D) streaming apparatus includes a 3D streaming server and a 3D streaming client. The 3D streaming server includes a 3D primitive extraction unit for extracting 3D primitives from 3D scene data provided thereto; a 2D primitive conversion unit for converting the extracted 3D primitives into 2D primitives; a 2D scene and network packet construction unit for constructing 2D scene data and network packets; a network packet transmission unit for transmitting the network packets to a 3D streaming client. The 3D streaming client includes a 2D scene reconstruction unit for reconstructing 2D scene data from the network packets; a 2D primitive extraction unit for extracting 2D primitives from the 2D scene data; a 2D rasterizing unit for determining screen pixel values within a primitive region; and a display unit for providing 3D and/or virtual reality contents using the determined screen pixel value. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100156902 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING GRAPHIC HAIR MOTION - The present invention provides a graphic motion generating method and apparatus for modeling hair into elastic curves that are inextensible while twisting and curling of hair can be expressed, for applying an adaptive different subdividing method to subdivide a single strand of hair into several segments such that detailed bending and curling of the strands of hair can be expressed in the vicinities of roots and ends of the strands of hair, for modeling the respective segments of respective strands of hair into low degree-of-freedom elastic curves with degrees of freedom less than two such that geometric and dynamic physical quantities can be calculated in a short time, and for automatically generating a curvature vector of the elastic curve model from an initial hair curve by using a minimizing technique. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100156912 | MOTION SYNTHESIS METHOD - A motion synthesis method includes: analyzing a character's gait in motion capture data; creating motion capture data at different speeds having the analyzed gait; and storing the motion capture data at different speeds in a motion capture database. The method further includes: designating restrictions of a sketch including a trajectory and a speed tag of a desired motion; searching and extracting motion capture data corresponding to the speed tag from the motion capture database; and creating a motion satisfying the trajectory through synthesis by blending the motion capture data extracted from the motion capture database. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100158352 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME CAMERA TRACKING - A camera tracking apparatus for calculating in real time feature information and camera motion information based on an input image includes a global camera tracking unit for computing a global feature map having feature information on entire feature points; a local camera tracking unit for computing in real time a local feature map having feature information on a part of the entire feature points; a global feature map update unit for receiving the computed feature information from the global and local camera tracking units to update the global feature map; and a local feature selection unit for receiving the updated feature information from the global feature map update unit to select in real time the feature points contained in the local feature map. The local camera tracking unit computes the local feature map for each frame, while the global camera tracking unit computes the global feature map over frames. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100158353 | METHOD FOR RESTORATION OF BUILDING STRUCTURE USING INFINITY HOMOGRAPHIES CALCULATED BASED ON PARALLELOGRAMS - A method for restoration of building structure using infinity homographies calculated based on parallelograms includes: calculating, using two or more parallelograms, an infinity homography between those cameras which refer to an arbitrary camera; restoring cameras and the building structure on an affine space using the computed infinity homography and homologous points between images; and transforming the restored result onto the metric space using constraints on orthogonality of vectors joining the restored three-dimensional points, the ratio of lengths of the vectors and intrinsic camera parameters. As a result, intrinsic camera parameters, camera positions on the metric space and the structure of the building are restored. All the restoration is possible even when intrinsic camera parameters corresponding to all the images are not constant. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20110096169 | CAMERA TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD, AND LIVE VIDEO COMPOSITING SYSTEM - Provided are a camera tracking system and method and a live video compositing system using the same, which track a main camera with a sub-camera attached to the main camera and thus stably calculate the motion of the main camera even in a dynamic case where most of a static background is occluded by a moving foreground object. The camera tracking system and the live video compositing system can connect feature point tracks that are cut by a foreground object which dynamically moves in an image. Accordingly, the camera tracking system and the live video compositing system can perform the more accurate and quick tracking of a camera even in a case where a foreground object occludes background by dynamically moving. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110128292 | DYNAMICS-BASED MOTION GENERATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A dynamics-based motion generation apparatus includes: a dynamics model conversion unit for automatically converting character model data into dynamics model data of a character to be subjected to a dynamics simulation; a dynamics model control unit for modifying the dynamics model data and adding or modifying an environment model; a dynamics motion conversion unit for automatically converting reference motion data of the character, which has been created by using the character model data, into dynamics motion data through the dynamics simulation by referring to the dynamics model data and the environment model; and a motion editing unit for editing the reference motion data to decrease a gap between reference motion data and dynamics motion data. The apparatus further includes a robot motion control unit for controlling a robot by inputting preset torque values to related joint motors of the robot by referring to the dynamics motion data. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110142354 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING POSE IN MOTION CAPTURE DATA - An apparatus for detecting a pose in motion capture data includes: a motion data input unit which receives motion data of characters; a virtual marker attaching unit for forming a point cloud by attaching virtual markers to joints of an end-effector of each character; and a scaling unit for, when a frame has different character size from an a character size of an original frame to be compared is detected, scaling the character size. The apparatus further includes an ICP algorithm execution unit for finding a matching transformation matrix between the original frame and each frame of the motion data, of which character size has been scaled, by applying an ICP algorithm, and determining a frame, in which character's pose has the smallest difference from that in the original frame based on a sum of the distances between the virtual markers chosen by sampling the matched two poses. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110148870 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING GRAPHIC TENTACLE MOTIONS - Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for generating graphic tentacle motions. In the method, a 3D tentacle is divided into a 1D center line and a 2D surface based on information about an initial mesh of the 3D tentacle. New locations of sample points of the center line in a new frame are determined from initial locations of sample points of the center line, based on a tentacle root motion. New locations of sample points of the surface in the new frame are determined from initial locations of sample points of the surface, based on both the initial locations of the center line sample points and the tentacle root motion. The surface is coupled to the center line using the locations of the sample points of both the center line and the surface in the new frame. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110148922 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MIXED REALITY CONTENT OPERATION BASED ON INDOOR AND OUTDOOR CONTEXT AWARENESS - Provided are an apparatus and method for mixed reality content operation based on indoor and outdoor context awareness. The apparatus for mixed reality content operation includes a mixed reality visualization processing unit superposing at least one of a virtual object and a text on an actual image which is acquired through the camera to generate a mixed reality image; a context awareness processing unit receiving at least one of sensed data peripheral to the mobile device and a location and posture data of the camera to perceive a peripheral context of the mobile device on the basis of the received data; and a mixed reality application content driving unit adding a content in the mixed reality image to generate an application service image, the content being provided in a context linking type according to the peripheral context. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110149039 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING NEW 3-D VIDEO REPRESENTATION FROM 2-D VIDEO - The present invention relates to a device and a method for allowing a user to reproduce new 3-D scene from one or two or more given 2-D video frames that already exist. The present invention provides a device and a method for automating post-image processing requiring a lot of manual work, thereby making it possible to produce and edit new 3-D representation from the existing 2-D video. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110149098 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARUTUS AND METHOD FOR VIRTUAL IMPLEMENTATION OF OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF LENS - Provided is an image processing apparatus and method that may virtually implement characteristics of an actual lens. The image processing apparatus includes a first image obtaining unit that obtains a raw image through an image capturing apparatus, a foreground/background separation unit that separates a foreground and a background from the raw image obtained by the first image obtaining unit, a lens selecting unit that selects a lens model, a lens characteristic, or a combination thereof the image capturing apparatus, an image processing unit that performs image processing on the foreground and the background by respectively applying a predetermined calibration value for the lens model, the lens characteristic, or the combination thereof, and a second image obtaining unit that synthesizes the image-processed foreground and background to obtain a processed image. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110153431 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TARGETED ADVERTISING BASED ON IMAGE OF PASSERBY - Provided is an apparatus for targeted advertising based on images of passersby. A passerby image extraction unit extracts an image of a passerby. A trait information extraction unit extracts trait information regarding the passerby from the extracted image. A targeted advertisement obtainment unit obtains a targeted advertisement to be displayed based on the trait information. A targeted advertisement display unit displays the targeted advertisement. | 06-23-2011 |
