Patents by Inventor Ethan DICKSON

Ethan DICKSON 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).

  • INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20240169633
    Abstract: A method of producing an avatar video, the method comprising the steps of: providing a reference image of a person's face; providing a plurality of characteristic features representative of a facial model X0 of the person's face, the characteristic features defining a facial pose dependent on the person speaking; providing a target phrase to be rendered over a predetermined time period during the avatar video and providing a plurality of time intervals t within the predetermined time period; generating, for each of said times intervals t, speech features from the target phrase, to provide a sequence of speech features; and generating, using the plurality of characteristic features and sequence of speech features, a sequence of facial models Xt for each of said time intervals t.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: VirtTuri Limited
    Inventors: Peter Alistair BRADY, Hayden ALLEN-VERCOE, Sathish SANKARPANDI, Ethan DICKSON
  • Interactive systems and methods
    Patent number: 11900518
    Abstract: A method of producing an avatar video, the method comprising the steps of: providing a reference image of a person's face; providing a plurality of characteristic features representative of a facial model X0 of the person's face, the characteristic features defining a facial pose dependent on the person speaking; providing a target phrase to be rendered over a predetermined time period during the avatar video and providing a plurality of time intervals t within the predetermined time period; generating, for each of said times intervals t, speech features from the target phrase, to provide a sequence of speech features; and generating, using the plurality of characteristic features and sequence of speech features, a sequence of facial models Xt for each of said time intervals t.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: VirtTari Limited
    Inventors: Peter Alistair Brady, Hayden Allen-Vercoe, Sathish Sankarpandi, Ethan Dickson
  • INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20220172710
    Abstract: A method of producing an avatar video, the method comprising the steps of: providing a reference image of a person's face; providing a plurality of characteristic features representative of a facial model X0 of the person's face, the characteristic features defining a facial pose dependent on the person speaking; providing a target phrase to be rendered over a predetermined time period during the avatar video and providing a plurality of time intervals t within the predetermined time period; generating, for each of said times intervals t, speech features from the target phrase, to provide a sequence of speech features; and generating, using the plurality of characteristic features and sequence of speech features, a sequence of facial models Xt for each of said time intervals t.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: VirtTuri Limited
    Inventors: Peter Alistair BRADY, Hayden ALLEN-VERCOE, Sathish SANKARPANDI, Ethan DICKSON