Patents by Inventor Bjorn Dietmar Rafael STENGER
Bjorn Dietmar Rafael STENGER 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: 11144597Abstract: A system for emulating a subject, to allow a user to interact with a computer generated talking head with the subject's face and voice; said system comprising a processor, a user interface and a personality storage section, the user interface being configured to emulate the subject, by displaying a talking head which comprises the subject's face and output speech from the mouth of the face with the subject's voice, the user interface further comprising a receiver for receiving a query from the user, the emulated subject being configured to respond to the query received from the user, the processor comprising a dialogue section and a talking head generation section, wherein said dialogue section is configured to generate a response to a query inputted by a user from the user interface and generate a response to be outputted by the talking head, the response being generated by retrieving information from said personality storage section, said personality storage section comprising content created by or aboutType: GrantFiled: March 16, 2018Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Balakrishna Venkata Jagannadha Kolluru, Vincent Ping Leung Wan, Bjorn Dietmar Rafael Stenger, Roberto Cipolla, Javier Latorre-Martinez, Langzhou Chen, Ranniery Da Silva Maia, Kayoko Yanagisawa, Norbert Braunschweiler, Ioannis Stylianou, Robert Arthur Blokland
-
Publication number: 20180203946Abstract: A system for emulating a subject, to allow a user to interact with a computer generated talking head with the subject's face and voice; said system comprising a processor, a user interface and a personality storage section, the user interface being configured to emulate the subject, by displaying a talking head which comprises the subject's face and output speech from the mouth of the face with the subject's voice, the user interface further comprising a receiver for receiving a query from the user, the emulated subject being configured to respond to the query received from the user, the processor comprising a dialogue section and a talking head generation section, wherein said dialogue section is configured to generate a response to a query inputted by a user from the user interface and generate a response to be outputted by the talking head, the response being generated by retrieving information from said personality storage section, said personality storage section comprising content created by or aboutType: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2018Publication date: July 19, 2018Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Balakrishna Venkata Jagannadha KOLLURU, Vincent Ping Leung Wan, Bjorn Dietmar Rafael Stenger, Roberto Cipolla, Javier Latorre-Martinez, Langzhou Chen, Ranniery Da Silva Maia, Kayoko Yanagisawa, Norbert Braunschweiler, Ioannis Stylianou, Robert Arthur Blokland
-
Patent number: 9959368Abstract: A system for emulating a subject, to allow a user to interact with a computer generated talking head with the subject's face and voice; said system comprising a processor, a user interface and a personality storage section, the user interface being configured to emulate the subject, by displaying a talking head which comprises the subject's face and output speech from the mouth of the face with the subject's voice, the user interface further comprising a receiver for receiving a query from the user, the emulated subject being configured to respond to the query received from the user, the processor comprising a dialogue section and a talking head generation section, wherein said dialogue section is configured to generate a response to a query inputted by a user from the user interface and generate a response to be outputted by the talking head, the response being generated by retrieving information from said personality storage section, said personality storage section comprising content created by or aboutType: GrantFiled: August 13, 2014Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Balakrishna Venkata Jagannadha Kolluru, Vincent Ping Leung Wan, Bjorn Dietmar Rafael Stenger, Roberto Cipolla, Javier Latorre-Martinez, Langzhou Chen, Ranniery Da Silva Maia, Kayoko Yanagisawa, Norbert Braunschweiler, Ioannis Stylianou, Robert Arthur Blokland
-
Publication number: 20150254527Abstract: A method for comparing a plurality of objects, the method comprising representing at least one feature of each object as a 3D ball representation, the radius of each ball representing the scale of the feature in the with respect to the frame of the object, the position of each ball representing the translation the feature in the frame of the object, the method further comprising comparing the objects by comparing the scale and translation as represented by the 3D balls to determine similarity between objects and their poses.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2014Publication date: September 10, 2015Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Minh-Tri Pham, Frank Perbet, Bjorn Dietmar, Rafael Stenger, Riccardo Gherardi, Oliver Woodford, Sam Johnson, Roberto Cipolla, Stephan Liwicki
-
Publication number: 20150052084Abstract: A system for emulating a subject, to allow a user to interact with a computer generated talking head with the subject's face and voice; said system comprising a processor, a user interface and a personality storage section, the user interface being configured to emulate the subject, by displaying a talking head which comprises the subject's face and output speech from the mouth of the face with the subject's voice, the user interface further comprising a receiver for receiving a query from the user, the emulated subject being configured to respond to the query received from the user, the processor comprising a dialogue section and a talking head generation section, wherein said dialogue section is configured to generate a response to a query inputted by a user from the user interface and generate a response to be outputted by the talking head, the response being generated by retrieving information from said personality storage section, said personality storage section comprising content created by or aboutType: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2014Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Balakrishna Venkata Jagannadha KOLLURU, Vincent Ping Leung WAN, Bjorn Dietmar Rafael STENGER, Roberto CIPOLLA, Javier LATORRE-MARTINEZ, Langzhou CHEN, Ranniery Da Silva MAIA, Kayoko YANAGISAWA, Norbert BRAUNSCHWEILER, Ioannis STYLIANOU, Robert Arthur BLOKLAND