Patent ID: 9082229
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a series of frames, the frames in the series of frames representing a portion of an animated character; identifying one or more frames included in the series of frames, the identifying including determining if one or more adjacent frames adjacent to the identified one or more frames can be used to reconstruct the identified one or more frames using a linear combination of content expressed in the one or more adjacent frames; removing, from the series of frames, the identified one or more frames that can be reconstructed from the one or more adjacent frames to produce a reduced series of frames for compression, the identified one or more frames being removed if the identified one or more frames can be expressed using the linear combination of the content expressed in the one or more adjacent frames; and compressing the reduced series of frames to produce an animation model that is capable of reconstructing the series of frames for an interactive virtual environment.