Appeal No.1996-1411
Application No. 08/237,393
prestored based on orientation angles. Animation occurs by
successively assembling the prestored images based on the
successive orientation calculations.
Representative claim 11 is reproduced as follows:
11. A method for producing computer processed animation,
in which a work station comprising a computer and peripheral
equipment produces each image in a graphic movement sequence
for a graphic figure, by assembling information stored in a
memory (7) concerning the figure to be animated based upon a
recording of measured data from strategic parts of an existing
self-movable object, e.g., a living actor, the graphic figure
being divided into a plurality of image sections which are
movable in relation to one another, said information stored in
a memory (7) being a plurality of three-dimensionally
represented perspective drawings of said image sections, each
representing an image section of said graphic figure in a
predetermined orientation, to be combined to produce a true
three-dimensional animated figure in accordance with said
recording measurement data, comprising the steps of:
a) as a preparation before assembling an image of
the graphic figure to be animated, storing data recordings of
said plurality of three-dimensionally represented perspective
drawings in digitized form at mutually different addresses in
a respective memory area in said memory (7), each perspective
drawing being associated with an individual space angle
position among a multiple of mutually different space angle
positions, the address of each perspective drawing being based
on its associated space angle position, and incorporating into
each perspective drawing information regarding at least one
joint location in the drawing
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