Patent Document ID: 6112177
Application ID: 08965702

Base Claim:
1. A method for generating a photo-realistic talking head for a text-to-speech synthesis application, comprising the steps of: sampling images of a subject; extracting a plurality of parameters from each image sample; storing the image sample parameters into an animation library; sampling multiphone images of the subject; sampling sounds associated with the multiphone images; extracting a plurality of parameters from each multiphone image sample; storing the multiphone image parameters and associated sound samples into a coarticulation library; reading, based on an input stimulus comprising one or more phoneme sequences, parameters from the coarticulation library corresponding to each phoneme sequence; generating, using parameters from the animation library corresponding to the read parameters, a sequence of animated frames, the sequence tracking the input stimulus.

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Claim 9:
9. The method of claim 1, wherein the sound samples comprise samples converted from sound into data by a speech recognizer.