Patents by Inventor Zixiao YU

Zixiao YU 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 CINEMATOGRAPHY SYSTEM USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
    Publication number: 20240015259
    Abstract: A script-to-movie generation method for a computing device includes: obtaining a movie script; generating a list of actions according to the movie script; generating stage performance based on each action in the list of actions; extracting observation information from the stage performance; using a camera agent trained with a reinforcement learning algorithm to select a camera based on the observation information, where the camera includes camera setting that defines a position of the camera with respect to a character for which the camera shoots; using the selected camera to capture a video of the stage performance; and outputting the video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Zixiao YU, Haohong WANG
  • Write-a-movie: visualize your story from script
    Patent number: 11463652
    Abstract: A script-to-movie generation method for a computing device includes obtaining a movie script, generating a video according to the movie script, optimizing the generated video until a pass condition is satisfied, and outputting the optimized video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: TCL RESEARCH AMERICA INC.
    Inventors: Zixiao Yu, Haohong Wang
  • WRITE-A-MOVIE: VISUALIZE YOUR STORY FROM SCRIPT
    Publication number: 20220210366
    Abstract: A script-to-movie generation method for a computing device includes obtaining a movie script, generating a video according to the movie script, optimizing the generated video until a pass condition is satisfied, and outputting the optimized video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Zixiao YU, Haohong WANG
  • Device and method for generating speech animation
    Patent number: 11244668
    Abstract: A method for generating speech animation from an audio signal includes: receiving the audio signal; transforming the received audio signal into frequency-domain audio features; performing neural-network processing on the frequency-domain audio features to recognize phonemes, wherein the neural-network processing is performed using a neural network trained with a phoneme dataset comprising of audio signals with corresponding ground-truth phoneme labels; and generating the speech animation from the recognized phonemes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: TCL RESEARCH AMERICA INC.
    Inventors: Zixiao Yu, Haohong Wang
  • DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING SPEECH ANIMATION
    Publication number: 20210375260
    Abstract: A method for generating speech animation from an audio signal includes: receiving the audio signal; transforming the received audio signal into frequency-domain audio features; performing neural-network processing on the frequency-domain audio features to recognize phonemes, wherein the neural-network processing is performed using a neural network trained with a phoneme dataset comprising of audio signals with corresponding ground-truth phoneme labels; and generating the speech animation from the recognized phonemes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Zixiao YU, Haohong WANG