Avatar animation, social networking and touch screen applications

W Li, X Tong, Y Du, T Sachson, Y Wang - US Patent 9,460,541, 2016 - Google Patents
Systems and methods may provide for detecting a condition with respect to one or more
frames of a video signal associated with a set of facial motion data and modifying, in …

Avatar-based transfer protocols, icon generation and doll animation

W Li, X Tong, Y Du, T Sachson, Y Wang - US Patent 9,792,714, 2017 - Google Patents
Systems and methods may provide for identifying one or more facial expressions of a
subject in a video signal and generating avatar animation data based on the one or more …

Methods and systems for creating speech-enabled avatars

SK Nayar, D Bitouk - US Patent App. 12/599,523, 2011 - Google Patents
Methods and systems for creating speech-enabled as avatars are provided in accordance
with some embodiments, methods for creating speech-enabled avatars are provided, the …

Method of operating mobile device by recognizing user's gesture and mobile device using the method

YS Kim, K Lee, JH Koh, H Jun - US Patent 8,831,636, 2014 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method of operating a mobile device by recognizing a user's gesture and
a mobile device that uses the method, the method includes recognizing the user's gesture …

High-fidelity facial and speech animation for virtual reality head mounted displays

H Li, JJ Lim, K Olszewski - US Patent App. 15/438,546, 2017 - Google Patents
[0007] The options for enabling these types of systems are either monetarily expensive or
computationally expensive. Either problem places such capabilities outside of presently …

System and method for infrasonic cardiac monitoring

O Barsimantov, K McLeod, JD Schaffer - US Patent 10,542,961, 2020 - Google Patents
Cardiac Output (CO) has traditionally been difficult, dangerous, and expensive to obtain.
Surrogate measures such as pulse rate and blood pressure have therefore been used to …

Mobile energy audit system and method

P Derby, H Thiruvengada, P Dharwada… - US Patent …, 2014 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND Current energy auditing services provided by service pro viders (eg,
Honeywell Utility Solutions) require an expert energy auditor. Other consumer applications …

Static and dynamic video calling avatars

LN Goodman, EG Eichen - US Patent 8,970,656, 2015 - Google Patents
A communication device may include logic configured to detect a request to initiate a video
call by the user of the communication device; select an avatar for the video call, wherein the …

Rendered audiovisual communication

KM Karakotsios - US Patent 9,479,736, 2016 - Google Patents
US9479736B1 - Rendered audiovisual communication - Google Patents US9479736B1 -
Rendered audiovisual communication - Google Patents Rendered audiovisual communication …

Systems and methods for updating applications

Z Qi, Y Jiao, LEI Chao, O Deng - US Patent 9,383,989, 2016 - Google Patents
The disclosed computer-implemented method for updating applications may include (1)
identifying each version of an application,(2) determining possible upgrade paths to …