US 12,067,662 B2
Advanced automatic rig creation processes
Verónica Costa Teixeira Pinto Orvalho, Oporto (PT); Hugo Miguel dos Reis Pereira, Oporto (PT); José Carlos Guedes dos Prazeres Miranda, Oporto (PT); Thomas Iorns, Porirua (NZ); Alexis Paul Benoit Roche, Oporto (PT); Mariana Ribeiro Dias, Oporto (PT); and Eva Margarida Ferreira de Abreu Almeida, Oporto (PT)
Assigned to Didimo, Inc., Leça da Palmeira (PT)
Filed by Didimo, Inc., Leça da Palmeira (PT)
Filed on Nov. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/990,585.
Application 17/990,585 is a continuation of application No. 17/037,418, filed on Sep. 29, 2020, granted, now 11,508,107.
Application 17/037,418 is a continuation in part of application No. 15/905,667, filed on Feb. 26, 2018, granted, now 10,796,468, issued on Oct. 6, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0085468 A1, Mar. 16, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06T 13/40 (2011.01); G06T 17/20 (2006.01); G06V 40/16 (2022.01)
CPC G06T 13/40 (2013.01) [G06T 17/20 (2013.01); G06V 40/168 (2022.01); G06V 40/174 (2022.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A method for animating a reconstructed head mesh, the method comprising:
using artificial intelligence to;
automatically detect one or more features of received user input for a face, the automatic detection comprising automatically determining a plurality of spatial coordinates for the face, each spatial coordinate of the plurality of spatial coordinates for the face being associated with one of the one or more features of the received user input for the face, the plurality of spatial coordinates for the face being determined using ray casting techniques;
automatically deform a template geometry based on one of image-based target points utilizing the one or more detected features, descriptor-based target points, and artificial intelligence based on a machine learning algorithm to automatically generate a custom geometry;
automatically transfer a texture of the received user input to custom geometry;
automatically deform a template control structure based on the one or more detected features to automatically generate a custom control structure;
automatically generate an animatable object having the custom geometry, the transferred texture, and the custom control structure; and
generate three-dimensional trajectories of mesh points to simulate a facial deformation.