Patents by Inventor Geoffrey Heller

Geoffrey Heller 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).

  • Automatic viseme detection for generating animatable puppet
    Patent number: 10825224
    Abstract: Certain embodiments involve automatically detecting video frames that depict visemes and that are usable for generating an animatable puppet. For example, a computing device accesses video frames depicting a person performing gestures usable for generating a layered puppet, including a viseme gesture corresponding to a target sound or phoneme. The computing device determines that audio data including the target sound or phoneme aligns with a particular video frame from the video frames that depicts the person performing the viseme gesture. The computing device creates, from the video frames, a puppet animation of the gestures, including an animation of the viseme corresponding to the target sound or phoneme that is generated from the particular video frame. The computing device outputs the puppet animation to a presentation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Geoffrey Heller, Jakub Fiser, David P. Simons
  • AUTOMATIC VISEME DETECTION FOR GENERATING ANIMATABLE PUPPET
    Publication number: 20200160581
    Abstract: Certain embodiments involve automatically detecting video frames that depict visemes and that are usable for generating an animatable puppet. For example, a computing device accesses video frames depicting a person performing gestures usable for generating a layered puppet, including a viseme gesture corresponding to a target sound or phoneme. The computing device determines that audio data including the target sound or phoneme aligns with a particular video frame from the video frames that depicts the person performing the viseme gesture. The computing device creates, from the video frames, a puppet animation of the gestures, including an animation of the viseme corresponding to the target sound or phoneme that is generated from the particular video frame. The computing device outputs the puppet animation to a presentation device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Geoffrey Heller, Jakub Fiser, David P. Simons