Scenario Generation Device for Expressive Animation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users without special knowledge face difficulties in creating expressive animation scenarios as they struggle to provide detailed information about character actions, backgrounds, and objects, leading to inadequate animation generation from simple text inputs.

Innovation Solution

A scenario generating apparatus and method that analyze input sentences, categorize words, and edit scenarios using external information to fill in missing details, ensuring comprehensive animation creation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If users write detailed scenarios covering appearance, action, background and objects, then animation expressiveness is improved, but scenario writing difficulty increases for users without special knowledge

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveanimation expressivenessVSAvoidscenario writing difficulty
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs self-service by automatically generating comprehensive scenario information from simple user input. The scenario generation unit creates detailed scenarios including character appearances, actions, backgrounds, and objects without requiring users to manually write these details, thus resolving the contradiction between animation quality and writing difficulty

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The scenario generation unit acts as an intermediary between the user's simple input and the animation system's detailed requirements. It translates basic user descriptions into comprehensive scenarios with all necessary elements (characters, actions, backgrounds, objects), allowing users to create expressive animation without needing specialized scenario writing knowledge

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Manufacturing precision

If users provide comprehensive information about characters, backgrounds and objects, then animation quality is improved, but information input time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveanimation qualityVSAvoidinformation input time
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by pre-defining scenario templates and structures. When users provide simple input, the scenario generation unit automatically fills in comprehensive details based on pre-established templates for characters, actions, backgrounds, and objects, significantly reducing the time users need to spend on information input while maintaining high animation quality

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The scenario generation unit performs self-service by automatically generating detailed scenario information from minimal user input. It autonomously creates comprehensive descriptions of characters, actions, backgrounds, and objects without requiring users to manually provide all these details, thus improving animation quality while minimizing information input time

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS7973793B2Scenario generation device, scenario generation method, and scenario generation program
Publication Date: 2011.07.05 SOVEREIGN PEAK VENTURES LLC
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AI summary

There is provided a scenario generation device capable of automatically generating a scenario for generating an animation of rich expression desired by a user even from a text created by the user who has no special knowledge about creation of animation. In the device, a scenario generation unit generates a scenario from a text inputted by the user, and a scenario edition unit edits a scenario with information recalled from words in the generated scenario by using external information acquired by an external information acquisition unit. That is, the scenario generation device recognizes information to be added to the text created by the user and adds information to the scenario by using external information acquired from a device owned by the user and a device existing in a communicable range. Thus, even the user has no special knowledge, the user can generate a scenario for realizing animation of expression near to the user's intention.