Abstract: A system and method for real-time monitoring of resource consumption, and interface for displaying resource consumption. System employs plurality of usage monitoring devices to obtain usage data of a particular consumable resource. Usage monitoring devices are in communication with a server environment for polling data and storing the data. The server environment can include a poller, aggregator, database, and administrator configuration site. System environment can have polling application to specify the polling of data. The system environment can also include a mood and analysis application that produces a mood score. The mood score can be presented to an interested individual as a mood-representative display image and/or a three-dimensional scene. An interested individual is presented with an object, such as a display, representative of the environmental impact of the resource consumption. The display is constructed and arranged to motivate an interested individual to reduce resource consumption.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program for capturing the motion of a first moving object in a cartoon and retargeting this motion onto the motion of a second moving object. In the invention a digitized video of a cartoon having the first moving object is input and a user is permitted to select from the digitized video a plurality of key shapes of the first moving object as the first moving moves in the digitized video. The motion of the first moving object is captured as motion parameter data by performing a transform of the motion of the first moving object according to each of the key shapes. Thereafter, the motion of the first moving object is retargeted to the second moving object by mapping the motion parameter data onto the second moving object.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program for capturing the motion of a first moving object in a cartoon and retargeting this motion onto the motion of a second moving object. In the invention a digitized video of a cartoon having the first moving object is input and a user is permitted to select from the digitized video a plurality of key shapes of the first moving object as the first moving moves in the digitized video. The motion of the first moving object is captured as motion parameter data by performing a transform of the motion of the first moving object according to each of the key shapes. Thereafter, the motion of the first moving object is retargeted to the second moving object by mapping the motion parameter data onto the second moving object.