Patents by Inventor Pif EDWARDS

Pif EDWARDS 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: 11488339
    Abstract: A system and method for triggering animated paralingual behavior from dialogue. The method including: receiving a corpus of dialogue including a plurality of samples, each sample including dialogue with aligned sequences of phonemes or sub-phonemes; extracting properties of measured quantities for each sample; generating a statistical profile by statistically classifying the extracted properties as a function of each sequence of phonemes or sub-phonemes; receiving a stream of phonemes or sub-phonemes and triggering paralingual behavior when the properties of any of the phonemes or sub-phonemes deviate from the statistical profile beyond a predetermined threshold; outputting the triggered paralingual behavior for animation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: JALI INC.
    Inventors: Pif Edwards, Chris Landreth, Karan Singh, Eugene Fiume
  • Publication number: 20220051463
    Abstract: A system and method for triggering animated paralingual behavior from dialogue. The method including: receiving a corpus of dialogue including a plurality of samples, each sample including dialogue with aligned sequences of phonemes or sub-phonemes; extracting properties of measured quantities for each sample; generating a statistical profile by statistically classifying the extracted properties as a function of each sequence of phonemes or sub-phonemes; receiving a stream of phonemes or sub-phonemes and triggering paralingual behavior when the properties of any of the phonemes or sub-phonemes deviate from the statistical profile beyond a predetermined threshold; outputting the triggered paralingual behavior for animation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Pif EDWARDS, Chris LANDRETH, Karan SINGH, Eugene FIUME
  • Publication number: 20210142818
    Abstract: A system and method for animated lip synchronization. The method includes: capturing speech input; parsing the speech input into phenomes; aligning the phonemes to the corresponding portions of the speech input; mapping the phonemes to visemes; synchronizing the visemes into viseme action units, the viseme action units comprising jaw and lip contributions for each of the phonemes; and outputting the viseme action units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Pif EDWARDS, Chris LANDRETH, Eugene FIUME, Karan SINGH
  • Patent number: 10839825
    Abstract: A system and method for animated lip synchronization. The method includes: capturing speech input; parsing the speech input into phenomes; aligning the phonemes to the corresponding portions of the speech input; mapping the phonemes to visemes; synchronizing the visemes into viseme action units, the viseme action units comprising jaw and lip contributions for each of the phonemes; and outputting the viseme action units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
    Inventors: Pif Edwards, Chris Landreth, Eugene Fiume, Karan Singh
  • Publication number: 20180253881
    Abstract: A system and method for animated lip synchronization. The method includes: capturing speech input; parsing the speech input into phenomes; aligning the phonemes to the corresponding portions of the speech input; mapping the phonemes to visemes; synchronizing the visemes into viseme action units, the viseme action units comprising jaw and lip contributions for each of the phonemes; and outputting the viseme action units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Pif EDWARDS, Chris LANDRETH, Eugene FIUME, Karan SINGH