Coloring kit for capturing and animating two-dimensional colored creation

• US 9,355,487 B2
• Filed: 03/14/2014
• Issued: 05/31/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Crayola LLC (Hallmark Cards Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Crayola LLC (Hallmark Cards Incorporated)
• Inventors: Moll, Joseph Thomas, Nemeckay, Brian, Weiss, Stephen
• Primary Examiner(s): McDowell, Jr., Maurice L
• Application Number:
  US14/213,586
• Publication Number:
  US 20140267310A1
• Time in Patent Office: 809 Days
• Field of Search: 345/473
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/20 3D [Three Dimensional] animation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2213/08 Animation software package

Abstract

A digital template animation kit is provided for generating a three-dimensional animation corresponding to a captured two-dimensional template. In embodiments, a template animation kit includes a template portfolio having template designs for coloring in by a user. A computing device executing a template animation kit application, such as a digital fashion portfolio kit application, may then capture an image of the user-completed drawings on each template design. In some embodiments, capturing an image of a template design includes identifying a coloring figure identifier, an upper page guide identifier, and a lower page guide identifier. In further embodiments, the captured images of two-dimensional template designs are applied to three dimensional digital templates for animation within a digital template animation environment.

Claims

1. A method for creating a digital template animation environment corresponding to a captured template design, the method comprising:

receiving a captured image of a template portfolio comprising at least one template page, the at least one template page comprising at least one template design; and

generating, by a template animation kit application executed on a computing device, a digital template animation environment, wherein the digital template animation environment comprises a captured image of at least a portion of the at least one template design,

wherein the template design is captured based at least in part on one or more page guide identifier associated with the at least one template design.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the captured image is generated based on a camera coupled to the computing device capturing an image of the at least a portion of the at least one template design.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the captured image is generated based on aligning at least a portion of a camera view with at least one page guide identifier associated with the at least one template design.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the captured image is generated based on aligning at least one level indicator with at least one level displayed in association with the digital template animation environment.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein capturing an image of the at least one template design comprises aligning at least a portion of a digital template animation environment displayed on a touch-screen surface of the computing device with at least a portion of the at least one template design.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein executing the template animation kit application comprises applying the captured image of the at least one template design to a digital template associated with the digital template animation environment.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein applying the captured image of the at least one template design comprises animating the digital template on a display of the computing device.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the template design is further captured based on at least one coloring figure identifier associated with the at least one template design.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein each of the first template page and the second template page comprises an upper page guide identifier and a lower page guide identifier.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein capturing an image of the template design comprises aligning at least a portion of a camera view with the first coloring figure identifier, the upper page guide identifier of the first template page, and the lower page guide identifier of the first template page.

11. A method for animating, by a template animation kit application executed on a computing device, a three-dimensional digital template, the method comprising:

receiving an indication of an activation feature for a template animation kit application that when executed by a computing device generates a digital template animation environment;

receiving a captured image of a plurality of template pages from a template portfolio, the plurality of template pages comprising a first template page and a second template page,

wherein the first template page comprises a first template design with a first coloring figure identifier,

wherein the second template page comprises a second template design with a second coloring figure identifier; and

generating a three-dimensional digital template associated with the digital template animation environment of the template animation kit application,

wherein the three-dimensional digital template corresponds with the first template design and the second template design,

wherein the digital template animation environment is configured to animate the three-dimensional digital template in response to identifying at least one coloring figure identifier based on a camera associated with the computing device capturing an image of the first template page and the second template page.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the first template design comprises a two-dimensional drawn image of a front side of a coloring figure,

and further wherein the second template design comprises a two-dimensional drawn image of a back side of a coloring figure.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the first coloring figure identifier corresponds to a front side of three-dimensional digital template, and further wherein the second coloring figure identifier corresponds to a second side of the three-dimensional digital template.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein each of the first template page and the second template page comprises an upper page guide identifier and a lower page guide identifier.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein capturing an image of the first template page comprises aligning at least a portion of a camera view with the first coloring figure identifier, the upper page guide identifier of the first template page, and the lower page guide identifier of the first template page,

and further wherein capturing an image of the second template page comprises aligning at least a portion of a camera view with the second coloring figure identifier, the upper page guide identifier of the second template page, and the lower page guide identifier of the second template page.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the captured image is automatically corrected by a feature associated with the digital template animation kit application.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein aligning at least a portion of a camera view with the first coloring figure identifier, the upper page guide identifier of the first template page, and the lower page guide identifier of the first template page comprises aligning a visible portion of the camera view via the display of the computing device with the first template page,

and further wherein aligning at least a portion of a camera view with the second coloring figure identifier, the upper page guide identifier of the second template page, and the lower page guide identifier of the second template page comprises aligning the visible portion of the camera view via the display of the computing device with the second template page.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the image of the first template page is automatically captured upon aligning the at least a portion of a camera view with the first coloring figure identifier, the upper page guide identifier of the first template page, and the lower page guide identifier of the first template page,

and further wherein the image of the second template page is automatically captured upon aligning at least a portion of a camera view with the second coloring figure identifier, the upper page guide identifier of the second template page, and the lower page guide identifier of the second template page.

19. A method for generating, by a template animation kit application executed on a computing device, a three-dimensional digital template animation corresponding to a captured two-dimensional template design, the method comprising:

receiving a captured image of a first template page, the first template page comprising a first two-dimensional template design and a first coloring figure identifier;

receiving a captured image of a second template page, the second template page comprising a second two-dimensional template design and a second coloring figure identifier;

extracting a first portion of the first template page, the first portion corresponding to at least a portion of the first two-dimensional template design;

extracting a second portion of the second template page, the second portion corresponding to at least a portion of the second two-dimensional template design;

applying the extracted first portion and the extracted second portion to a three-dimensional digital template associated with the template animation kit application to provide an enhanced, three-dimensional digital template, said three-dimensional digital template corresponding to the at least one coloring figure identifier of the first template page and the at least one coloring figure identifier of the second template page; and

generating an animated scene comprising the enhanced, three-dimensional digital template.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the enhanced, three-dimensional digital template comprises a visual appearance including a first amount of user markings associated with the first two-dimensional template design and a second amount of user markings associated with the second two-dimensional template design.