Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Computer graphics processing – Animation
Reexamination Certificate
2006-08-15
2006-08-15
Nguyen, Kimbinh T. (Department: 2671)
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Computer graphics processing
Animation
C345S474000, C704S258000, C704S260000, C704S270000, C704S272000, C704S273000, C704S274000, C704S275000, C704S276000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07091976
ABSTRACT:
A method of creating a personal animated entity for delivering a multi-media message from a sender to a recipient is disclosed. The method comprises receiving from the sender an image file at a server, the image file having an entity and a background image. The server presents to the sender the image file and requests the sender to mark features on the image file. After the sender marks the image file, the server presents to the sender the image file as an optional animated entity when the sender chooses an animated entity to deliver a multi-media message. If the sender selects the image file for delivering the multi-media message, the server delivers the multi-media message using the personal animated entity in the context of the background image of the image file. Extrapolation is used to fill in background voids created by the movement of the personal animated entity in the context of the background image.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4276570 (1981-06-01), Burson et al.
patent: 4602280 (1986-07-01), Maloomian
patent: 5113493 (1992-05-01), Crosby
patent: 5347306 (1994-09-01), Nitta
patent: 5387178 (1995-02-01), Moses
patent: 5420801 (1995-05-01), Dockter et al.
patent: 5537662 (1996-07-01), Sato et al.
patent: 5546500 (1996-08-01), Lyberg
patent: 5555343 (1996-09-01), Luther
patent: 5555426 (1996-09-01), Johnson et al.
patent: 5638502 (1997-06-01), Murata
patent: 5640590 (1997-06-01), Luther
patent: 5647834 (1997-07-01), Ron
patent: 5657426 (1997-08-01), Waters et al.
patent: 5689618 (1997-11-01), Gasper et al.
patent: 5697789 (1997-12-01), Sameth et al.
patent: 5732232 (1998-03-01), Brush et al.
patent: 5745360 (1998-04-01), Leone et al.
patent: 5781186 (1998-07-01), Jennings
patent: 5818461 (1998-10-01), Rouet et al.
patent: 5826234 (1998-10-01), Lyberg
patent: 5850463 (1998-12-01), Horii
patent: 5857099 (1999-01-01), Mitchell et al.
patent: 5860064 (1999-01-01), Henton
patent: 5880731 (1999-03-01), Liles et al.
patent: 5963217 (1999-10-01), Grayson et al.
patent: 5982853 (1999-11-01), Liebermann
patent: 5983190 (1999-11-01), Trower et al.
patent: 5995119 (1999-11-01), Cosatto et al.
patent: 5995639 (1999-11-01), Kado et al.
patent: 6002997 (1999-12-01), Tou
patent: 6011537 (2000-01-01), Slotznick
patent: 6018744 (2000-01-01), Mamiya et al.
patent: 6064383 (2000-05-01), Skelly
patent: 6122177 (2000-09-01), Kitano et al.
patent: 6122606 (2000-09-01), Johnson
patent: 6147692 (2000-11-01), Shaw et al.
patent: 6161082 (2000-12-01), Goldberg et al.
patent: 6173250 (2001-01-01), Jong
patent: 6195631 (2001-02-01), Alshawi et al.
patent: 6215505 (2001-04-01), Minami et al.
patent: 6219638 (2001-04-01), Padmanabhan et al.
patent: 6230111 (2001-05-01), Mizokawa
patent: 6232966 (2001-05-01), Kurlander
patent: 6233544 (2001-05-01), Alshawi
patent: 6243681 (2001-06-01), Guji et al.
patent: 6289085 (2001-09-01), Miyashita et al.
patent: 6377925 (2002-04-01), Greene et al.
patent: 6381346 (2002-04-01), Erasian
patent: 6384829 (2002-05-01), Prevost et al.
patent: 6385586 (2002-05-01), Dietz
patent: 6393107 (2002-05-01), Ball et al.
patent: 6405225 (2002-06-01), Apfel et al.
patent: 6417853 (2002-07-01), Squires et al.
patent: 6453294 (2002-09-01), Dutta et al.
patent: 6460075 (2002-10-01), Krueger et al.
patent: 6466213 (2002-10-01), Bickmore et al.
patent: 6476815 (2002-11-01), Ando
patent: 6496868 (2002-12-01), Krueger et al.
patent: 6522333 (2003-02-01), Hatlelid et al.
patent: 6532011 (2003-03-01), Francini et al.
patent: 6539354 (2003-03-01), Sutton et al.
patent: 6542936 (2003-04-01), Mayle et al.
patent: 6545682 (2003-04-01), Ventrella et al.
patent: 6631399 (2003-10-01), Stanczak et al.
patent: 6643385 (2003-11-01), Bravomalo
patent: 6665860 (2003-12-01), DeSantis et al.
patent: 6680934 (2004-01-01), Cain
patent: 6692359 (2004-02-01), Williams et al.
patent: 6784901 (2004-08-01), Harvey et al.
patent: 2001/0019330 (2001-09-01), Bickmore et al.
patent: 2001/0049596 (2001-12-01), Lavine et al.
patent: 2001/0050681 (2001-12-01), Keys et al.
patent: 2001/0050689 (2001-12-01), Park
patent: 2002/0007276 (2002-01-01), Rosenblatt et al.
patent: 2002/0109680 (2002-08-01), Orbanes et al.
patent: 2002/0194006 (2002-12-01), Challapali
patent: 2003/0028378 (2003-02-01), August et al.
patent: 2003/0035412 (2003-02-01), Wang et al.
patent: 2003/0046160 (2003-03-01), Paz-Pujalt et al.
patent: 2003/0191816 (2003-10-01), Landress et al.
patent: 2004/0091154 (2004-05-01), Cote
Ming Ouhyoung, I-Chen Lin, David S.D. Lee, “Web-enabled Speech Driven Facial Animation”, Proc. of ICAT'99 (International Conference on Artificial Realty and Tele-existance), pp. 23-28, Conference held on Dec. 16-18, 1999, Tokyo, Japan.
“Photo-realistic Talking-heads From Image samples,” by E. Cosatto and H. P. Graf, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Sep. 2000, vol. 2, issue 3, pp. 152-163.
“Audio-Visual Speech Modeling for Continuous Speech Recognition,” IEEE Trans. on MultiMedia, vol. 2, No. 3, Sep. 2000.
TTS Based Very Low Bit Rate Speech Coder, by K-S. Lee and R. V. Cox, Proc. ICASSP 1999, vol. I, Mar. 1999, pp. 181-184.
“Emu: An E-mail Preprocessor for Text-to-Speech,” by Richard Sproat, Jianying Hu, and Hao Chen, IEEE Signal Processing Society 1998 Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Dec. 7-9, 1998, Los Angeles, CA., USA.
“Trends of ASR and TTS Applications in Japan,” Proc. of International Workshop on Interactive Voice Technololgy for Telecommunications Applications (IVTTA96), Sep. 1996.
David Kurlander, Tim Skelly, David Salesin. “Comic Chat”, Proceedings of the 23rdAnnual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Aug. 1996.
Pollack, “Happy in the East or Smiling in the West”. New York Times. Aug. 12, 1996.
Pelachaud et al., “Generating Facial Expressions for Speech”. Cognitive Science. Jan. 3, 1996, vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 1-46.
W. Keith Edwards, “The Design and Implementation of the MONTAGE Multimedia Mail System”, Apr. 1991, IEEE Conferemce Proceedings of TRICOMM '91, pp. 47-57.
H. Noot, ZS. M. Rutkay, Chartoon 20.0 Manual, Jan. 31, 2000.
Lijun Yin, A. Basu; “MPEG4 face modeling using fiducial points”, IEEE; Image Processing, 1997. Proceedings., International Conference on, vol. 1, 26-29. 1997.
Bickmore, et al., “Animated Autonomous Personal Representatives”, ACM, International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pp. 8-15, 1998.
Thorisson, Kristinn R. “Toonface: A System for Creating and Animating Interactive Cartoon Faces.” MIT Media Laboratory Learning and Common Sense Section Technical Report, pp. 96-101, Apr. 1996.
David Kurlander, Tim Skelly, David Salesin, “Comic Chat”, Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Aug. 1996.
Pollack, “Happy in the East or Smiling in the West”, New York Times, Aug. 12, 1996.
Pelachaud et al., “Generating Facial Expressions for Speech”, Cognitive Science, Jan. 3, 1996, vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 1-46.
Andres del Valle Ana Cristina
Civanlar Mehmet Reha
Haffner Patrick
Ostermann Joern
AT&T Corp.
Nguyen Kimbinh T.
LandOfFree
System and method of customizing animated entities for use... does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.
If you have personal experience with System and method of customizing animated entities for use..., we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and System and method of customizing animated entities for use... will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-3614028