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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2014
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Javier Latorre-Martinez, Cambridge, GB;
Vincent Ping Leung Wan, Cambridge, GB;
Balakrishna Venkata Jagannadha Kolluru, Cambridge, GB;
Ioannis Stylianou, Cambridge, GB;
Robert Arthur Blokland, Cambridge, GB;
Norbert Braunschweiler, Cambridge, GB;
Kayoko Yanagisawa, Cambridge, GB;
Langzhou Chen, Cambridge, GB;
Ranniery Maia, Cambridge, GB;
Robert Anderson, Cambridge, GB;
Bjorn Stenger, Cambridge, GB;
Roberto Cipolla, Cambridge, GB;
Neil Baker, Cambridge, GB;
KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
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.