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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Stephen Sutton, Portland, OR (US);
Pieter Vermeulen, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Assignee:
Fluent Speech Technologies, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 1/308 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 1/308 ;
Abstract
A method of producing synthetic visual speech according to this invention includes receiving an input containing speech information. One or more visemes that correspond to the speech input are then identified. Next, the weights of those visemes are calculated using a coarticulation engine including viseme deformability information. Finally, a synthetic visual speech output is produced based on the visemes' weights over time (or tracks). The synthetic visual speech output is combined with a synchronized audio output corresponding to the input to produce a multimedia output containing a 3D lipsyncing animation.