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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8359281 | System and method for parallelizing and accelerating learning machine training and classification using a massively parallel accelerator A method system for training an apparatus to recognize a pattern includes providing the apparatus with a host processor executing steps of a machine learning process; providing the apparatus with an accelerator including at least two processors; inputting training p... | 01/22/2013 |
| 8200493 | System and method of providing conversational visual prosody for talking heads A system and method of controlling the movement of a virtual agent while the agent is listening to a human user during a conversation are disclosed. The method includes receiving speech data from the user to yield received speech data and analyzing the received spee... | 06/12/2012 |
| 8135652 | Parallel support vector method and apparatus Disclosed is an improved technique for training a support vector machine using a distributed architecture. A training data set is divided into subsets, and the subsets are optimized in a first level of optimizations, with each optimization generating a support vecto... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131551 | System and method of providing conversational visual prosody for talking heads A system and method of controlling the movement of a virtual agent while the agent is speaking to a human user during a conversation is disclosed. The method comprises receiving speech data to be spoken by the virtual agent, performing a prosodic analysis of the spe... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8086464 | System for low-latency animation of talking heads Methods and apparatus for rendering a talking head on a client device are disclosed. The client device has a client cache capable of storing audio/visual data associated with rendering the talking head. The method comprises storing sentences in a client cache of a c... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086066 | Digitally-generated lighting for video conferencing applications A method of improving the lighting conditions of a real scene or video sequence. Digitally generated light is added to a scene for video conferencing over telecommunication networks. A virtual illumination equation takes into account light attenuation, lambertian an... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8078466 | Coarticulation method for audio-visual text-to-speech synthesis A method for generating animated sequences of talking heads in text-to-speech applications wherein a processor samples a plurality of frames comprising image samples. The processor reads first data comprising one or more parameters associated with noise-producing or... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7990384 | Audio-visual selection process for the synthesis of photo-realistic talking-head animations A system and method for generating photo-realistic talking-head animation from a text input utilizes an audio-visual unit selection process. The lip-synchronization is obtained by optimally selecting and concatenating variable-length video units of the mouth area. T... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7949109 | System and method of controlling sound in a multi-media communication application A computing device and computer-readable medium storing instructions for controlling a computing device to customize a voice in a multi-media message created by a sender for a recipient, the multi-media message comprising a text message from the sender to be deliver... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7933772 | System and method for triphone-based unit selection for visual speech synthesis A system and method for generating a video sequence having mouth movements synchronized with speech sounds are disclosed. The system utilizes a database of n-phones as the smallest selectable unit, wherein n is larger than 1 and preferably 3. The system calculates a... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7921013 | System and method for sending multi-media messages using emoticons A system and method of providing sender-customization of multi-media messages through the use of emoticons is disclosed. The sender inserts the emoticons into a text message. As an animated face audibly delivers the text, emoticons associated with the message are st... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7844467 | System and method of providing conversational visual prosody for talking heads A system and method of controlling the movement of a virtual agent while the agent is listening to a human user during a conversation is disclosed. The method comprises receiving speech data from the user, performing a prosodic analysis of the speech data and contro... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7805017 | Digitally-generated lighting for video conferencing applications A method of improving the lighting conditions of a real scene or video sequence. Digitally generated light is added to a scene for video conferencing over telecommunication networks. A virtual illumination equation takes into account light attenuation, lambertian an... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7697668 | System and method of controlling sound in a multi-media communication application A computing device and computer-readable medium storing instructions for controlling a computing device to customize a voice in a multi-media message created by a sender for a recipient, the multi-media message comprising a text message from the sender to be deliver... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7630897 | Coarticulation method for audio-visual text-to-speech synthesis A method for generating animated sequences of talking heads in text-to-speech applications wherein a processor samples a plurality of frames comprising image samples. The processor reads first data comprising one or more parameters associated with noise-producing or... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7627478 | System for low-latency animation of talking heads Methods and apparatus for rendering a talking head on a client device are disclosed. The client device has a client cache capable of storing audio/visual data associated with rendering the talking head. The method comprises storing sentences in a client cache of a c... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7406450 | Spread kernel support vector machine Disclosed is a parallel support vector machine technique for solving problems with a large set of training data where the kernel computation, as well as the kernel cache and the training data, are spread over a number of distributed machines or processors. A plurali... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7392190 | Coarticulation method for audio-visual text-to-speech synthesis A method for generating animated sequences of talking heads in text-to-speech applications wherein a processor samples a plurality of frames comprising image samples. The processor reads first data comprising one or more parameters associated with noise-producing or... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7369992 | System and method for triphone-based unit selection for visual speech synthesis A system and method for generating a video sequence having mouth movements synchronized with speech sounds are disclosed. The system utilizes a database of n-phones as the smallest selectable unit, wherein n is larger than 1 and preferably 3. The system calculates a... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7353177 | System and method of providing conversational visual prosody for talking heads A system and method of controlling the movement of a virtual agent while the agent is listening to a human user during a conversation is disclosed. The method comprises receiving speech data from the user, performing a prosodic analysis of the speech data and contro... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7260539 | System for low-latency animation of talking heads Methods and apparatus for rendering a talking head on a client device are disclosed. The client device has a client cache capable of storing audio/visual data associated with rendering the talking head. The method comprises storing sentences in a client cache of a c... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7231099 | Digitally-generated lighting for video conferencing applications A method of improving the lighting conditions of a real scene or video sequence. Digitally generated light is added to a scene for video conferencing over telecommunication networks. A virtual illumination equation takes into account light attenuation, lambertian an... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7209882 | System and method for triphone-based unit selection for visual speech synthesis A system and method for generating a video sequence having mouth movements synchronized with speech sounds are disclosed. The system utilizes a database of n-phones as the smallest selectable unit, wherein n is larger than 1 and preferably 3. The system calculates a... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7177811 | Method for sending multi-media messages using customizable background images A method is provided for customizing a multi-media message created by a sender for a recipient, in which the multi-media message includes an animated entity audibly presenting speech converted from text by the sender. At least one image is received from the sender. ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7136818 | System and method of providing conversational visual prosody for talking heads A system and method of controlling the movement of a virtual agent while the agent is speaking to a human user during a conversation is disclosed. The method comprises receiving speech data to be spoken by the virtual agent, performing a prosodic analysis of the spe... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7117155 | Coarticulation method for audio-visual text-to-speech synthesis A method for generating animated sequences of talking heads in text-to-speech applications wherein a processor samples a plurality of frames comprising image samples. Representative parameters are extracted from the image samples and stored in an animation library. ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7076430 | System and method of providing conversational visual prosody for talking heads A system and method of controlling the movement of a virtual agent while the agent is listening to a human user during a conversation is disclosed. The method comprises receiving speech data from the user, performing a prosodic analysis of the speech data and contro... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7035803 | Method for sending multi-media messages using customizable background images A system and method of providing sender customization of multi-media messages through the use of inserted images or video. The images or video may be sender-created or predefined and available to the sender via a web server. The method relates to customizing a multi... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6990452 | Method for sending multi-media messages using emoticons A system and method of providing sender-customization of multi-media messages through the use of emoticons is disclosed. The sender inserts the emoticons into a text message. As an animated face audibly delivers the text, emoticons associated with the message are st... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6980697 | Digitally-generated lighting for video conferencing applications A method of improving the lighting conditions of a real scene or video sequence. Digitally generated light is added to a scene for video conferencing over telecommunication networks. A virtual illumination equation takes into account light attenuation, lambertian an... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6963839 | System and method of controlling sound in a multi-media communication application A method for customizing a voice in a multi-media message created by a sender for a recipient is disclosed. The multi-media message comprises a text message from the sender to be delivered by an animated entity. The method comprises presenting an option to the sende... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6662161 | Coarticulation method for audio-visual text-to-speech synthesis A method for generating animated sequences of talking heads in text-to-speech applications wherein a processor samples a plurality of frames comprising image samples. Representative parameters are extracted from the image samples and stored in an animatio... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6654018 | Audio-visual selection process for the synthesis of photo-realistic talking-head animations A system and method for generating photo-realistic talking-head animation from a text input utilizes an audio-visual unit selection process. The lip-synchronization is obtained by optimally selecting and concatenating variable-length video units of the mo... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6504546 | Method of modeling objects to synthesize three-dimensional, photo-realistic animations A method for modeling three-dimensional objects to create photo-realistic animations using a data-driven approach. The three-dimensional object is defined by a set of separate three-dimensional planes, each plane enclosing an area of the object that under... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6118887 | Robust multi-modal method for recognizing objects A method for tracking heads and faces is disclosed wherein a variety of different representation models can be used to define individual heads and facial features in a multi-channel capable tracking algorithm. The representation models generated by the ch... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6112177 | Coarticulation method for audio-visual text-to-speech synthesis A method for generating animated sequences of talking heads in text-to-speech applications wherein a processor samples a plurality of frames comprising image samples. Representative parameters are extracted from the image samples and stored in an animatio... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6028960 | Face feature analysis for automatic lipreading and character animation A face feature analysis which begins by generating multiple face feature candidates, e.g., eyes and nose positions, using an isolated frame face analysis. Then, a nostril tracking window is defined around a nose candidate and tests are applied to the pixe... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5995119 | Method for generating photo-realistic animated characters A method for generating photo-realistic characters wherein one or more pictures of an individual are decomposed into a plurality of parameterized facial parts. The facial parts are stored in memory. To create animated frames, the individual facial parts a... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5864630 | Multi-modal method for locating objects in images A multi-modal method for locating objects in images wherein a tracking analysis is first performed using a plurality of channels which may comprise a shape channel, a color channel, and a motion channel. After a predetermined number of frames, intermediat... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5805745 | Method for locating a subject's lips in a facial image An embodiment of the present invention locates facial features in an image by bandpass filtering the image and then performing morphological operations followed by a thresholding operation. This initial processing identifies candidate areas where facial f... | 09/08/1998 |
