Image synthesis
CA 2249016 C · Owner: Breen, Andrew Paul · Inventors: Breen, Andrew Paul; Bowers, Emma Jane
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
Synthesis of a moving picture of a face (e.g. to accompany synthetic speech) is performed by converting an input phoneme string into a sequence of mouth shapes or visemes. Specifically a shape is generated for each vowel and for each transition involving a consonant.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed March 24, 1997 and granted December 3, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 24, 2017.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by March 24, 2019.
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