IMAGE GENERATING APPARATUS

• US 20150002518A1
• Filed: 06/20/2014
• Published: 01/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: NAKAJIMA, Mitsuyasu
• Application Number:
  US14/310,812
• Publication Number:
  US 20150002518A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/474
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/40 of characters, e.g. humans, animals or virtual beings

Abstract

An image generating apparatus (100) includes an animation acquiring unit (150) that acquires a plurality of items of animation data. A terminal apparatus (200) includes an index value acquiring unit (251), a composite skeleton generating unit (252), and a drawing processing unit (253). The index value acquiring unit (251) inputs an index value regarding a motion of animation data, and the composite skeleton generating unit (252) generates animation data according to the index value input by the index value acquiring unit (251), using the plurality of items of animation data acquired by the animation acquiring unit (150).

Claims

1. An image generating apparatus comprising:

a data acquiring unit for acquiring a plurality of items of animation data;

an input unit for inputting an index value regarding motion of animation data; and

a first generating unit for generating composite animation data according to the index value input by the input unit, using the plurality of items of animation data acquired by the data acquiring unit.

2. The image generating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the input unit inputs a plurality of index values regarding motion of the composite animation data and

the first generating unit generates the composite animation data according to the plurality of index values input by the input unit.

3. The image generating apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising a second generating unit for generating, from the plurality of items of animation data acquired by the data acquiring unit, standard animation data associated with an index value regarding motion,

wherein the first generating unit generates the composite animation data according to the index value input by the input unit from the standard animation data.

4. The image generating apparatus according to claim 3, wherein a standard value of the index regarding the motion is set for the standard animation data and

the first generating unit generates the composite animation data according to the index value input by the input unit, based on the standard value in the standard animation data.

5. The image generating apparatus according to claim 3 further comprising a display control unit for causing a display unit to display an animation based on the standard animation data and a user interface for inputting the index value regarding the motion,

wherein the input unit inputs the index value regarding the motion by operating the user interface.

6. The image generating apparatus according to claim 5, wherein when the input unit inputs the index value regarding the motion, the display control unit causes the display unit to display an animation based on the composite animation data generated by the first generating unit by discriminating a portion corresponding to the input index value.

7. The image generating apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the display control unit causes the display unit to display the portion of the animation that changes according to the index value regarding the motion input by the input unit by discriminating the portion.

8. The image generating apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the display control unit causes the display unit to display an index value corresponding to the composite animation data after inputting the index value regarding the motion by the input unit.

9. An image generating method comprising the steps of:

acquiring a plurality of items of animation data;

inputting an index value regarding a motion of animation data; and

generating composite animation data according to the index value input in the input step, using the plurality of items of animation data acquired in the data acquiring step.

10. A non-transitory storage medium encoded with a computer-readable program that enables a computer to execute functions as:

a data acquiring unit for acquiring a plurality of items of animation data;

an input unit for inputting an index value regarding motion of animation data; and

a generating unit for generating composite animation data according to the index value input by the input unit, using the plurality of items of animation data acquired by the data acquiring unit.