US 11,670,027 B2
Automated dance animation
Gurunandan Krishnan Gorumkonda, Seattle, WA (US); and Shree K. Nayar, New York, NE (US)
Assigned to Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed by Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/526,540.
Application 17/526,540 is a continuation of application No. 16/588,446, filed on Sep. 30, 2019, granted, now 11,176,723.
Prior Publication US 2022/0148246 A1, May 12, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06T 13/20 (2011.01); G06T 7/246 (2017.01); G06T 13/80 (2011.01); G06T 13/40 (2011.01)
CPC G06T 13/205 (2013.01) [G06T 7/246 (2017.01); G06T 13/40 (2013.01); G06T 13/80 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
generating an output video comprising displayed animation of a computer animation model with motion of the computer animation model generated randomly using a probability value for each motion state of a set of motion states, the computer animation model including A control points and an animation framework associated with the computer animation model comprises B motion patterns, and C tempo harmonics such that a number of motion states for the computer animation model within the animation framework is represented by:
N=(B×C)A
where N is the number of motion states and each motion state M is assigned a corresponding probability such that a probability mass function P( ) of the probability value assigned to the each motion state is P(M1, M2, M3 . . . MN-1, MN)=1.