Patents by Inventor Yujin CHAI

Yujin CHAI 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: 11354841
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a speech-driven facial animation generation method. The method is mainly divided into six steps: extracting speech features, collecting frequency information, summarizing time information, decoding action features, driving a facial model, and sliding a signal window. The present disclosure can drive, according to an input speech audio signal, any facial model in real time under a particular delay to generate animation. The quality of the animation reaches the currently most advanced speech animation technology level, and has the characteristics of light weight and good robustness. The present disclosure can be used to generate speech animation under different scenes, such as VR virtual social networking, and virtual speech assistants and games.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignees: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY, FACEUNITY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kun Zhou, Yujin Chai, Yanlin Weng, Lvdi Wang
  • Publication number: 20210233299
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a speech-driven facial animation generation method. The method is mainly divided into six steps: extracting speech features, collecting frequency information, summarizing time information, decoding action features, driving a facial model, and sliding a signal window. The present disclosure can drive, according to an input speech audio signal, any facial model in real time under a particular delay to generate animation. The quality of the animation reaches the currently most advanced speech animation technology level, and has the characteristics of light weight and good robustness. The present disclosure can be used to generate speech animation under different scenes, such as VR virtual social networking, and virtual speech assistants and games.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Kun ZHOU, Yujin CHAI, Yanlin WENG, Lvdi WANG