CONTROLLING ANIMATED CHARACTER EXPRESSIONS

Patent №

US 8,207,971

Granted

2012-06-26

Filed 2009

Owner

LUCASFILM ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY LTD.

Lab

AI components

2

planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12388806

A system includes a computer system capable of representing one or more animated characters. The computer system includes a blendshape manager that combines multiple blendshapes to produce the animated character. The computer system also includes an expression manager to respectively adjust one or more control parameters associated with each of the plurality of blendshapes for adjusting an expression of the animated character. The computer system also includes a corrective element manager that applies one or more corrective elements to the combined blendshapes based upon at least one of the control parameters. The one or more applied corrective elements are adjustable based upon one or more of the control parameters absent the introduction of one or more additional control parameters.

PlanningAI hardwareG06T 11/60G06T 13/40G06T 13/80

AI classification

Planning1.00
AI hardware0.53
Evolutionary computation0.04
Vision0.01
Machine learning0.01
Knowledge representation0.00
Natural language0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

LUCASFILM ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY LTD.

assignment · 223050826

Assignors

KOPERWAS, MICHAEL, PIGHIN, FREDERIC P., PHILLIPS, CARY, SULLIVAN, STEVE, HUESO, EDUARDO

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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