Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Computer graphics processing – Animation
Patent
1997-10-10
2000-09-26
Zimmerman, Mark K.
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Computer graphics processing
Animation
345420, 345435, 382100, 382154, 382284, 382285, G06T 1500
Patent
active
061248649
ABSTRACT:
A technique for converging upon a computer-based model of a real world or synthetic scene. The computer model makes use of abstraction-based data objects as well as image-based data objects. A correlation mesh provides links between related image-based and abstraction-based objects. An initial step in a process analyzes an input image stream and user inputs to derive initial image-based objects and abstraction-based objects for the scene model. Subsequent steps in the process allow user inputs to refine the image-based objects, abstraction-based objects and/or the correlation mesh. As a result, refinements to the image-based object model of the scene can improve the abstraction-based model of the scene, and refinements to the abstraction-based object model can improve the image-based model.
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Madden Paul B.
Moorby Philip R.
Robotham John S.
Schott Jean-Pierre
Nguyen Kimbinh T.
SynaPix, Inc.
Zimmerman Mark K.
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