Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Robert Anderson

Roberto Cipolla

Bjorn Stenger

Vincent Ping Leung Wan

Javier Latorre-Martinez

Frank Perbet

Atsuto Maki

Ioannis Stylianou

Oliver Woodford

Langzhou Chen

Kayoko Yanagisawa

Norbert Braunschweiler

Balakrishna Venkata Jagannadha Kolluru

Robert Arthur Blokland

Ranniery Maia

Neil Baker

A system for capturing 3D image data of a scene, including three light sources, each configured to emit light at a different wavelength to the other two sources and to illuminate the scene to be captured; a first video camera configured to receive light from the light sources which has been reflected from the scene, to isolate light received from each of the light sources, and to output data relating to the image captured for each of the three light sources; a depth sensor configured to capture depth map data of the scene; and an analysis unit configured to receive data from the first video camera and process the data to obtain data relating to a normal field obtained from the images captured for each of the three light sources, and to combine the normal field data with the depth map data to capture 3D image data of the scene.

Methods and systems for capturing 3D surface geometry

A method of animating a computer generation of a head, the head having a mouth which moves in accordance with speech to be output by the head,

Computer generated head

A method of animating a computer generation of a head and displaying the text of an electronic book, such that the head has a mouth which moves in accordance with the speech of the text of the electronic book to be output by the head and a word or group of words from the text is displayed while simultaneously being mimed by the mouth, wherein input text is divided into a sequence of acoustic units, which are converted to a sequence of image vectors and into a sequence of text display indicators. The sequence of image vectors is outputted as video such that the mouth of said head moves to mime the speech associated with the input text with a selected expression, and the sequence of text display indicators is output as video which is synchronized with the lip movement of the head.

Synthetic audiovisual storyteller

Growing community of inventors

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Robert Anderson