JPH10228548A - Animation production system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow even a user who is unfamiliar with the operation of a keyboard, etc., to easily make an animation by recognizing an animation scenario consisting of inputted voices, analyzing morphemes of the recognized sentence scenario and making an animation. SOLUTION: This device consists of a data processor 10, a voice input device 20 that inputs a voice from a microphone, etc., an auxiliary storage device 30, a display device 40, a keyboard 50 and a mouse 60. A voice inputting part 13 takes in a voice that is inputted by a user through the device 20 to the processor 10. When a scenario of animation to be produced is inputted in a voice, the inputted voice is recognized and converted into a sentence scenario. Morphemes that constitute the recognized sentence scenario are analyzed. An image that corresponds to the analyzed morpheme is read from an image database 31, and an animation is made of the read image.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an animation creating system for creating an animation (moving image) by combining a plurality of images, and more particularly to an animation creating system for analyzing a scenario input in a natural language to create an animation. .

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a conventional animation creation system, for example, as disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Sho 60-171572, an animation scenario is input as text by input means such as a keyboard, and the input text scenario is input. Is known to analyze the data and create a desired animation.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned prior art, it was necessary to input an animation scenario in a sentence using a keyboard, a mouse or the like. Therefore, there is a problem that it takes a very long time to create an animation for a user unfamiliar with a keyboard, a mouse, and the like.

In addition, since the operation timing of a person or an object (hereinafter referred to as a character image) on an animation is also input in words, it is not possible to appropriately express the speed desired by the user. For example, when it is desired to create an animation that expresses the motion of “the ball slowly bounces”, since the motion speed of the character image corresponding to the word “slow” is predetermined, the character image is moved at the speed desired by the user. There was a problem that animation could not be created.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems. A first object of the present invention is to input an animation scenario without using a keyboard or the like, and to become unfamiliar with a keyboard or a mouse. An object of the present invention is to provide an animation creating system that enables even a simple user to easily create a desired animation.

A second object of the present invention is to provide an animation creating system capable of easily specifying a delicate timing of a motion of a character on an animation.

[0007]

In order to achieve the first object, the present invention provides a voice input means for inputting an animation scenario to be created by voice, and a voice input by the voice input means. Speech recognition means for recognizing a sentence and converting it into a sentence scenario, a sentence analysis means for analyzing morphemes constituting the sentence scenario recognized by the speech recognition means, and an image database corresponding to the morpheme analyzed by the sentence analysis means And an animation creating means for creating an animation based on the read image.

[0008] Further, there is provided input means for inputting the operation timing of the character image on the animation, and means for analyzing the timing input from the input means and setting the timing as the operation timing of the character image. And an animation is created based on the set timing.

The apparatus further comprises operation timing setting means for analyzing the timing of intermittent sound input from the sound input means and setting the timing as the operation timing of the character image. An animation in which the character image moves at the movement timing is created.

In order to achieve the second object,
The present invention provides an input unit for inputting the operation timing of a character image on an animation to be created, an operation timing setting unit for analyzing the timing input from the input unit, and setting the timing as the operation timing of the character image. And animation creating means for creating an animation in which the character image moves at the set operation timing.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the illustrated embodiments.

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing an embodiment of an animation creation system to which the present invention is applied.
It comprises a data processing device 10, a voice input device 20, which is a device for inputting voice such as a microphone, an auxiliary storage device 30, a display device 40, a keyboard 50, and a mouse 60.

The data processing device 10 comprises a CPU 11 and a memory 12. The memory 12 has a voice input unit 13 for receiving an input voice scenario, and a voice recognition unit 1 for recognizing the input voice scenario and converting it into a sentence scenario.
4. A sentence analysis unit 15 that analyzes the recognized sentence scenario and decomposes the sentence scenario into morphemes, a timing setting unit 16 that sets the speed of an object (character image) in the animation, a morpheme of the analyzed sentence scenario Are stored from the image database 31 to store an animation creating unit 17 for creating an animation and an animation display unit 18 for displaying the created animation on the display device 40.

The auxiliary storage device 30 stores an image database 31 storing various character images used for creating animations.

Next, a specific processing flow of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the flow of processing of the animation creation system to which the present invention is applied.

First, the voice input by the user from the voice input device 20 is taken into the data processing device 10 by the voice input unit 13 (step 201). Here, a case where the user inputs a scenario “the ball slowly bounces from the left” by voice will be described as an example.

First, the voice "ball slowly bounces from the left" input by the user is recognized by the voice recognition unit 14 and converted into a sentence scenario (step 20).
2). Since a known technique is used for speech recognition, the description is omitted. Next, the morpheme of the recognized sentence scenario is analyzed and decomposed into a plurality of morphemes (step 203). Since the morphological analysis is also a known technique, its description is omitted here.

Next, from the decomposed morphemes, an image corresponding to the word (or phrase) determined to be a noun is extracted from the image database 31 (step 204). Here, since “ball” is a noun, an image corresponding to this is extracted from the image database 31.

Next, it is determined whether there is a word (or phrase) that can determine the initial position of the target image in the sentence scenario analyzed in step 203 (step 205). This processing will be described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 3 shows an initial position definition table 3 defining words (phrases) and initial positions of characters corresponding to the words.
FIG. This initial position definition table 30
0 is a word 3 such as "from left", "from right", "from above"
For 01, an initial position coordinate 302 of the image corresponding to the word 301 is defined.

For example, for the word "from left",
Coordinate values are defined so that the target image is moved with the position where the initial position coordinates (x, y) are indicated by (0, 0) as the initial position.

Specifically, the process of step 205 determines whether a word corresponding to the word 301 registered in the initial position definition table 300 exists in the analyzed text scenario. Here, when a word corresponding to the word 301 registered in the initial position definition table 300 is present in the analyzed sentence scenario, the initial position coordinates 302 corresponding to the word 301
Is taken out, and the initial position of the target character image is determined (step 206).

For example, in the sentence scenario "the ball slowly bounces from the left.", A word that determines the initial position "from the left" is included. (0,0) is the initial position definition table 3
00 and is determined as the initial position of the target image “ball”.

If it is determined in step 205 that there is no word for determining the initial position, the user is prompted to input, and the initial position is input from the keyboard 50 or the mouse 60 to determine (step 207).

Next, the moving coordinates of the character image corresponding to "bounce" are defined by the words representing the operation 401 shown in FIG. 4 and the moving coordinates 402 of the character image from the initial position corresponding to the word. After searching the table 400, an operation timing setting command for determining whether or not to input an operation timing is input (step 208).

Next, a timing input mode is determined (step 209). Here, when the mode is voice input, the user inputs the operation timing by voice from the voice input device 20 (step 210), and the voice recognition unit analyzes the interval between the input voices and analyzes the timing. Is stored (step 211). The animation creating unit 17 associates the stored timing with the motion of the character image (step 212). Step 209
When the key input is selected, the user inputs the operation timing of the character image by hitting a key on the keyboard 50 or clicking the mouse 60.

An image of the processing of steps 210 to 212 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a concept of associating a character image on an animation with a motion timing input by a user.

As shown in FIG. 5, for example, "ton, ton,
When the user inputs a voice such as "ton", the voice recognition unit 14 analyzes the pronunciation intervals t1, t2,... Of each "ton", and stores it in the timing setting unit 16. In this way, the “ball” image serving as a key and its display timing are determined as indicated by 501 to 506 in FIG. Step 2
If the key input is selected in step 09, the user inputs the operation timing of the character image by hitting a key on the keyboard 50 or clicking the mouse 60.

When the character image serving as the key of the animation and the timing for displaying the character image are determined, the animation creating unit 17 adjusts the moving coordinates shown in FIG. Moving coordinates 4 retrieved from table 400
Animation data for displaying the image of the "ball" sequentially moved to the coordinates indicated by 02 is created (step 214).

The animation display unit 18 displays an animation image based on the animation data created by the animation creation unit 17 on the display 40 (step 215).

In this manner, an animation corresponding to a scenario can be created without inputting a sentence scenario from a keyboard or the like, and delicate setting of the motion timing of a character on the animation can be easily performed. It becomes possible. With these combinations, even users who are unfamiliar with keyboard and other operations,
You can easily create an animation with a story.

In the above embodiment, if a character image constituting an animation has already been created, a delicate motion animation can be created only by inputting a voice or a key at the operation timing.

[0033]

As described above, according to the present invention, an animation scenario by voice input by voice input means such as a microphone is recognized, a morpheme of the recognized text scenario is analyzed, and an animation is created. Thus, even a user who is unfamiliar with the operation of a keyboard or the like can easily create an animation having a story without inputting the story with a mouse or a keyboard.

Further, since the operation timing of the character image on the animation is input from an input device such as a voice or a keyboard, it is possible to create an animation expressing the subtle character operation timing. is there.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing an embodiment of an animation creation system to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a processing flow of an animation creating system to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of a table defining words indicating positions and initial position coordinates corresponding to the words;

FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram of a table that defines a motion of a character image and corresponding movement coordinates.

FIG. 5 is a conceptual diagram showing the concept of setting the operation timing of a character image.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 data processing device, 11 CPU, 12 memory
13 voice input unit, 14 voice recognition unit, 15 text analysis unit, 16 timing setting unit, 17 animation creation unit, 18 animation display unit, 20 voice input device, 30 auxiliary storage device, 31 Image database, 4
0: display device, 50: keyboard, 60: mouse.

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An animation system for creating an animation using an image stored in an image database, comprising: a voice input unit for inputting an animation scenario to be generated by voice; Speech recognition means for recognizing the speech and converting it to a sentence scenario, a sentence analysis means for analyzing the morphemes constituting the sentence scenario recognized by the speech recognition means, and an image corresponding to the morpheme analyzed by the sentence analysis means. Animation creating means for reading from the image database and creating an animation based on the read image. 2. An animation creating means further comprising: input means for inputting a motion timing of a character image on an animation; and means for analyzing a timing input from the input means and setting the timing as a motion timing of the character image. 2. The animation creating system according to claim 1, wherein the creates an animation based on the set timing. 3. An operation timing setting means for analyzing timing of intermittent sound input from the sound input means and setting the timing as a movement timing of a character image, wherein the animation creating means comprises 2. The animation creating system according to claim 1, wherein an animation in which the character image moves at the set movement timing is created. 4. An animation creation system for creating an animation using an image stored in an image database, comprising: input means for inputting a motion timing of a character on an animation to be created; and input from the input means. Operation timing setting means for analyzing the timing to be performed and setting the timing as the operation timing of the character image;
Animation creating means for creating an animation in which the character image operates at the set operation timing,
An animation creation system comprising: