Apparatus and method for providing animation effect in portable terminal

FIGS. 1A through 6D, discussed below, and the various embodiments used to describe the principles of the present disclosure in this patent document are by way of illustration only and should not be construed in any way to limit the scope of the disclosure.

The present invention provides an apparatus and method for performing a key frame animation scheme and a physical animation scheme in a mixed manner to provide a highly-realistic animation in a portable terminal. In the following description, a composite animation representation means an operation of simultaneously processing a key frame animation, which is represented in a fixed frame by a producer, and a physical animation that can be realistically represented according to peripheral environments.

FIG. 2 illustrates a block diagram of a portable terminal for representing a composite animation according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, the portable terminal may include a control unit 200, an animation processing unit 202,