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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2009
William A. Brown, Raleigh, NC (US);
Richard W. Muirhead, Tyler, TX (US);
Francis X. Reddington, Tampa, FL (US);
Martin A. Wolfe, Charlotte, NC (US);
William A. Brown, Raleigh, NC (US);
Richard W. Muirhead, Tyler, TX (US);
Francis X. Reddington, Tampa, FL (US);
Martin A. Wolfe, Charlotte, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Animating speech of an avatar representing a participant in a mobile communication including selecting one or more images; selecting a generic animation template; fitting the one or more images with the generic animation template; texture wrapping the one more images over the generic animation template; and displaying the one or more images texture wrapped over the generic animation template. Receiving an audio speech signal; identifying a series of phonemes; and for each phoneme: identifying a new mouth position for the mouth of the generic animation template; altering the mouth position to the new mouth position; texture wrapping a portion of the one or more images corresponding to the altered mouth position; displaying the texture wrapped portion of the one or more images corresponding to the altered mouth position of the mouth of the generic animation template; and playing the portion of the audio speech signal represented by the phoneme.