| US 7,612,777 B2 | ||
| Animation generating apparatus, animation generating method, and animation generating program | ||
| Hisanori Nagata, Tokyo (Japan); Kenji Kameda, Tokyo (Japan); and Natsuo Koda, Kanagawa (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Sony Corporation, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Apr. 26, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/114,030. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2004-143014 (JP), filed on May 13, 2004. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0284879 A1, Dec. 21, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06T 15/00 (2006.01); G06T 13/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 345—473 [345/474] | 20 Claims |
| 1. An animation generating apparatus for generating a three-dimensional animation tracking a moving object, the apparatus
comprising:
camera parameter setting means for setting a point of regard and a point of view based on a current position of the moving
object using route data indicating a route of the moving object so that the point of regard is a position of the moving object
located on the route, and the point of view is located on the route of the moving object in a first direction and at a fixed
distance behind the point of regard; and
rendering means for generating an image directed from the point of view to the point of regard when the moving object changes
direction by retrieving necessary rendering data from three-dimensional map data based on the point of regard and the point
of view set by the camera parameter setting means,
wherein, when the direction of the moving object changes in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, the point
of view remains located on the route of the moving object traveling in the first direction at the fixed distance behind the
point of regard and directed to the point of regard.
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