Synthetic audiovisual storyteller

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PATENT NO 9361722
APP PUB NO 20150042662A1
SERIAL NO

14455573

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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.

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TOSHIBA DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION72-34 HORIKAWA-CHO SAIWAI-KU KAWASAKI-SHI KANAGAWA

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Anderson, Robert Cambridge, GB 182 2467
Baker, Neil Cambridge, GB 7 37
Blokland, Robert Arthur Cambridge, GB 3 50
Braunschweiler, Norbert Cambridge, GB 5 78
Chen, Langzhou Cambridge, GB 7 176
Cipolla, Roberto Cambridge, GB 31 894
Kolluru, Balakrishna Venkata Jagannadha Cambridge, GB 3 50
Latorre-Martinez, Javier Cambridge, GB 8 100
Maia, Ranniery Cambridge, GB 4 23
Stenger, Bjorn Cambridge, GB 30 521
Stylianou, Ioannis Cambridge, GB 9 58
Wan, Vincent Ping Leung Cambridge, GB 12 114
Yanagisawa, Kayoko Cambridge, GB 5 54

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