Patent ID: 11908068
Assignee: THE COURT OF EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. The method of claim 1, wherein:
capturing, by the first computing device, the video image of the object includes capturing facial features of the object corresponding to human facial features;
positioning and orienting a 3D mesh representation of the object in registration with the video image of the object, prior to mapping the features defined by the first data to corresponding features on the 3D mesh representation of the of the object;
mapping, by the first computing device, features defined by the first data to corresponding features of the object includes mapping facial features defined by the first data to corresponding facial features of the object; and
using, by the first computing device, the first data to animate the corresponding features of the object including using data defining facial movements of the human subject to animate the facial features of the object so as to correspond with the facial movements of the human subject defined by the first data.