Disney Patent Targets AI Projection for Real-Time Animatronic Faces in Theme Parks

This is pretty cool. The idea is to make a fully animated face appear on the surface of a mask, to make animatronics even more life-like. 

A method includes determining an orientation of a mechanically animated surface relative to one or more projectors configured to project content onto the mechanically animated surface, dynamically rendering the content based on one or more parameters derived from the orientation of the mechanically animated surface relative to the one or more projectors, and presenting the content on the mechanically animated surface using the one or more projectors.

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