Patent ID: 7606392
Filing Date: 2009-10-20
Classification: G06K,G06T

Abstract:
1. A system, comprising: at least one motion capture camera configured to capture motion data from a facial surface of an actor using a plurality of sensors disposed on the facial surface of the actor; and a motion capture processor coupled to said at least one motion capture camera, said motion capture processor including: a storage unit; an image capture module configured to control said at least one motion capture camera to capture frame by frame images of said plurality of sensors disposed on the facial surface of the actor, said image capture module receiving and storing said frame by frame images on said storage unit; a sensor tracking module configured to retrieve the stored frame by frame images from said storage unit, to perform a tracking function on the images to accurately map said plurality of sensors for each frame, and to provide said motion data from the facial surface; and a digital modeling module configured to receive said motion data to generate a modeled surface representing the facial surface of the actor; and a near-IR light configured to project speckle pattern on the facial surface of the actor and generating a 3-D mesh of the facial surface by triangulating the speckle pattern.