Patent Document ID: 8766985
Application ID: 13242225

Base Claim:
1. An animation processor comprising a processor, an instruction memory, a working memory, inputs and outputs, and comprising: an input for receiving an input animation sequence comprising a plurality of time-sequenced frames; storage for a style image pair, comprising an input style image and an output style image, wherein differences between the input style image and the output style image define a style for drawings and other visual elements; logic for generating an image orientation field for each time-sequenced frame from image data within the respective time-sequenced frame; logic for generating a style orientation field defined in a coordinate system of the input style image and the output style image; logic for calculating a velocity field from the time-sequenced frames; logic for generating an output animation sequence comprising output images that has temporal coherence and that takes on the style defined by the style image pair by using the image orientation fields, the style orientation field, and the velocity fields; and an output for outputting the output animation sequence.

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Claim 7:
7. The animation processor of claim 1 , further comprising: logic that uses the velocity field to derive point paths; logic for evaluating a goal function that considers the velocity field; logic for evaluating the point paths to determine the depth of points; and logic for determining, from the depth of points, when to lower a weight for a goal of temporal continuity in order to preserve a texture style that is independent of depth, thereby creating an impression of flatness in the output image.