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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2025

Filed:

Dec. 13, 2022
Applicant:

Roku, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Sunil Ramesh, Cupertino, CA (US);

Michael Cutter, Golden, CO (US);

Karina Levitian, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

Roku, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 13/40 (2011.01); G06T 13/20 (2011.01); G06V 10/774 (2022.01); G06V 10/80 (2022.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01); G06V 40/16 (2022.01); H04N 7/15 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/157 (2013.01); G06T 13/205 (2013.01); G06T 13/40 (2013.01); G06V 10/774 (2022.01); G06V 10/811 (2022.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01); G06V 40/168 (2022.01); G06V 40/172 (2022.01);
Abstract

In one aspect, an example method includes (i) receiving audio from a first client device engaged in a communication session with a second client device, the audio comprising one or more words spoken by a user of the first client device; (ii) using the audio and a facial feature model to estimate facial movement that corresponds to the one or more words spoken by the user; (iii) generating a synthetic video depicting an avatar of the user moving according to the estimated facial movement; and (iv) in response to generating the synthetic video, causing the second client device to present the synthetic video synchronized with the audio.


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