Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Robert Arthur Blokland

Roberto Cipolla

Vincent Ping Leung Wan

Ioannis Stylianou

Javier Latorre-Martinez

Kayoko Yanagisawa

Langzhou Chen

Norbert Braunschweiler

Balakrishna Venkata Jagannadha Kolluru

Bjorn Dietmar Rafael Stenger

Ranniery Da Silva Maia

Bjorn Stenger

Ranniery Maia

Robert Anderson

Neil Baker

A system for emulating a subject, to allow a user to interact with a computer generated talking head with the subject's face and voice;

Computer generated emulation of a subject

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

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Cambridge, United Kingdom

Robert Arthur Blokland