Patents by Inventor Yu-Sheng Yao

Yu-Sheng Yao has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7486296
    Abstract: A caricature generating system and method. The caricature generating system comprises an edge tracing and stroking unit, a posterizing and texturing unit, an image blending unit, a facial image adjusting unit, a cartoon theme composition unit, a styling parameters database comprising a plurality of styling parameters including the control parameters for edge tracing, stroking, posterizing, and texturing, a face adjusting parameter database comprising a plurality of face adjusting parameter set, and a cartoon theme database comprising a plurality of cartoon themes, thereby creating a caricature from a facial image. The styling parameters (including the control parameters for edge tracing, stroking, posterizing, and texturing), created manually or by a software, comprise oil paint, pastel, a wax crayon, marker pen, pen drawing, tempera paint, glue color paint, halftone, watercolor paint, block print, woodcut, color pencil, charcoal and their combinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Reallusion Inc.
    Inventor: Yu-Sheng Yao
  • Publication number: 20060082579
    Abstract: A caricature generating system and method. The caricature generating system comprises an edge tracing and stroking unit, a posterizing and texturing unit, an image blending unit, a facial image adjusting unit, a cartoon theme composition unit, a styling parameters database comprising a plurality of styling parameters including the control parameters for edge tracing, stroking, posterizing, and texturing, a face adjusting parameter database comprising a plurality of face adjusting parameter set, and a cartoon theme database comprising a plurality of cartoon themes, thereby creating a caricature from a facial image. The styling parameters (including the control parameters for edge tracing, stroking, posterizing, and texturing), created manually or by a software, comprise oil paint, pastel, a wax crayon, marker pen, pen drawing, tempera paint, glue color paint, halftone, watercolor paint, block print, woodcut, color pencil, charcoal and their combinations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2005
    Publication date: April 20, 2006
    Inventor: Yu-Sheng Yao
  • Publication number: 20040085324
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an image-adjusting system and method, and more particularly, to a system and method for adjusting a facial image. By a set of adjusting parameters that by using a face-adjusting template stored in a database of face-adjusting template to adjust the image data of a facial image, wherein the database of face-adjusting template comprises plural data of face adjustment parameter generated by computer software or manual adjustment, such as skin texture, proportion of facial features, and variations of expression, etc., for improving the quality of a facial image, moreover, the arrangement and combination of the plural face adjustment parameters can further constitute different face-adjusting templates, so that the facial expression may be appropriately modified to generate the effect of different facial images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2003
    Publication date: May 6, 2004
    Applicant: REALLUSION INC.
    Inventor: Yu-Sheng Yao