COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL FOR SYNCHRONISING ANIMATION SYSTEMS Russian patent published in 2009 - IPC G06T15/70 G06T1/20 

FIELD: information technology.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to animation systems, and particularly to communication protocol for supporting information and time synchronisation between several animation systems. Proposed is a communication protocol, which controls asynchronous data exchange between a high-level animation system and a low-level animation system. The high-level animation system has varying, average frame frequency and is optimised for interactivity. The low-level animation system has constant, high frame frequency and is optimised for high frequency of frame updating. The communication protocol contains messages which can be sent by the high-level animation system to the low-level animation system so as to describe animation and how animation should change for after given period of time. As a result, the low-level system can display information at high rate of updating, even if animation data are not being received from the high-level system for each frame.

EFFECT: more efficient exchange of required data in an animation system.

26 cl, 9 dwg