Patents by Inventor William Scott Moulton

William Scott Moulton 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: 6778252
    Abstract: A method for modifying an audio visual recording originally produced with an original audio track of an original speaker, using a second audio dub track of a second speaker, comprising analyzing the original audio track to convert it into a continuous time coded facial and acoustic symbol stream to identify corresponding visual facial motions of the original speaker to create continuous data sets of facial motion corresponding to speech utterance states and transformations, storing these continuous data sets in a database, analyzing the second audio dub track to convert it to a continuous tune coded facial and acoustic symbol stream, using the second audio dub track's continuous time coded facial and acoustic symbol stream to animate the original speaker's face, synchronized to the second audio dub track to create natural continuous facial speech expression by the original speaker of the second dub audio track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Film Language
    Inventors: William Scott Moulton, Steven Wolff, Rod Schumacher, Andrew Bryant, Marcy Hamilton, Strath Hamilton, Dana Taschner
  • Publication number: 20040030741
    Abstract: A modular intelligent personal agent system is presented for search, navigation, control, retrieval, analysis, and results reporting on networks and databases. A client-side or server-side software application retrieves and interprets hypertext documents executing a search algorithm, which search results are displayed in alternate three-dimensional and two-dimensional graphical visualization formats. Hypertext documents and associated content media are displayed as symbol or thumbnail web documents as nodes with connector lines representing links between the documents. Nodes and connector lines are color-coded symbol form for the user according to truth of search terms, numeric data tested in hypertext documents, according to domain type, link density, and metric counts. Different symbols represent search and Boolean evaluation status, document type, and thumbnails represent whole or incremental portions of the document page or type documents found.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2002
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Inventors: Richard Ernest Wolton, William Scott Moulton
  • Publication number: 20020097380
    Abstract: This invention comprises analyzing a speaker's speech in an audio visual recording to convert it into triphones and/or phonemes and then using a time coded phoneme stream to identify corresponding visual facial motions, to create single frame snapshots or multi-frame clips of facial motion corresponding to speech phoneme utterance states and transformations, which are stored in a database, and which are subsequently used to animate the original speaker's face, synchronized to a new voice track that has been converted into a time-coded, image frame-indexed phoneme stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: William Scott Moulton, Steven Wolff, Rod Schumacher, Andrew Bryant, Marcy Hamilton, Strath Hamilton, Dana Taschner