Patents by Inventor Paul Richard DIXON

Paul Richard DIXON 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).

  • Publication number: 20210090314
    Abstract: Systems and methods for animating an avatar are provided. An example method of animating an avatar includes at an electronic device having one or more processors and memory, receiving an audio input, receiving a video input including at least a portion of a user's face, wherein the video input is separate from the audio input, determining one or more movements of the user's face based on the received audio input and received video input, and generating, using a neural network separately trained with a set of audio training data and a set of video training data, a set of characteristics for controlling an avatar representing the one or more movements of the user's face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Ahmed Serag El Din HUSSEN ABDELAZIZ, Nicholas APOSTOLOFF, Justin BINDER, Paul Richard DIXON, Sachin KAJAREKAR, Reinhard KNOTHE, Sebastian MARTIN, Barry-John THEOBALD, Thibaut WEISE