Image synthesis
US6208356A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 13, 1998 |
| Grant date | Mar 27, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 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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