Patent ID: 8462198
Filing Date: 2013-06-11
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. An animation generation system, comprising: an avatar generation module for generating an avatar in a virtual space, wherein the avatar has a set of skeletons and a skin attached to the set of skeletons, and the set of skeletons has a plurality of movable nodes, and the movable nodes are manipulated so that a motion of the skin is induced; and an avatar manipulation module for manipulating the movable nodes of the avatar, comprising: a position mark which is moved by users to at least one first real position in a real space; at least one control mark which is moved by the users to at least one second real position in the real space; a video capturing unit for capturing the images of the real space; an arithmetic unit, coupled to the video capturing unit, for identifying the first real position and the second real position from the images of the real space, and converting the first real position into a first virtual position where the avatar is in the virtual space, and the second real position into a second virtual position where one of the movable nodes of the avatar is in the virtual space, wherein the relative motions between the second virtual position and the first virtual position make the avatar perform a series of successive motions in the virtual space, and one of the images captured by the video capturing unit are drawn as a background, while one of the images of a designated object corresponding to the position mark is drawn onto the background, according to the first virtual position, to generate an Augmented Reality (AR) animation, wherein the avatar generation module further comprises: