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Image synthesis

US6208356A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 13, 1998
Grant dateMar 27, 2001
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Expiry dateMar 13, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10L2021/105
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Synthesis of a moving picture of a face (e.g. to accompany synthetic speech) is performed by converting an input phoneme string into a sequence of mouth shapes or visemes. Specifically a shape is generated for each vowel and for each transition involving a consonant.

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