System and apparatus for customizing a computer animation wireframe
CA 2236235 C · Owner: At&T Intellectual Property Ii, L.P. · Inventors: Ostermann, Joern; Chen, Lawrence Shao-Hsien
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An animation wireframe is modified with three-dimensional (3D) range and color data having a corresponding shape surface. The animation wireframe is vertically scaled based on distances between consecutive features within the 3D range and color data and corresponding distances within the generic animation wireframe. For each animation wireframe point the, location of the animation wireframe point is adjusted to coincide with a point on the shape surface. The shape surface point lies along a scaling line connecting the animation wireframe point, the shape surface point and an origin point. The scaling line is within a horizontal plane.
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- Filed April 29, 1998 and granted July 9, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 29, 2018.
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