Patent ID: 6557010
Filing Date: 2003-04-29
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method of searching a human three-dimensional (3D) posture, comprising:a posture descriptor extracting step of extracting a posture descriptor from a human query 3D posture using relation among respective joints of a human body; an other posture descriptor extracting step of extracting posture descriptors of human 3D models in a posture database in the same manner as the posture descriptor extracting step; a database establishing step of establishing the posture database with the posture descriptors of the human 3D models extracted at the previous step; a 3D model database establishing step of establishing a 3D model database using the human 3D models; a similarity comparing step of comparing an output query posture descriptor with the posture descriptors in the posture database; and a comparison result outputting step of outputting the 3D model database corresponding to the posture having the highest similarity in the posture database by indexing the similarity in accordance with a result of the similarity comparison at the previous step.