Patents Assigned to Disney Enterprises, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20240296028
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method receives a change to data stored in a repository. An artifact that is generated based on the change to the data failed a validation. The method analyzes the change to the data via a model to generate a set of adjustments. The model is trained to output adjustments for the artifact to generate a set of adjusted artifacts. The method determines an adjusted artifact that is associated with an adjustment in the set of adjustments that passes the validation. The adjusted artifact is output as a validated artifact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Alexander Cox, Steven William Wagner, Kyle Everett Lanier, James H. Tatum
  • Patent number: 12081895
    Abstract: Systems and methods for compositing real-world video with a virtual object are disclosed. In one embodiment the system includes a processor; and a computer-readable non-transitory storage medium, the medium encoded with instructions that when executed cause the processor to perform operations including receiving video of a video capture region from a camera coupled to an unmanned vehicle; obtaining a map representation of the video capture region; placing the virtual object into the map representation; rendering the video with the virtual object to generate a rendered video; displaying the rendered video; and based on an elevation of the unmanned vehicle, updating the virtual object to transition between a top view of the virtual object and an elevation view or perspective view of the virtual object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven M. Chapman, Mehul Patel, Joseph Popp
  • Publication number: 20240292059
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method receives data for sessions that is generated based on use of a service. The data for a session includes session characteristic values for a set of session characteristics that is associated with the session. The method classifies the sessions into a plurality of session types to generate feature values for the plurality of session types. The session characteristic values for the session are compared to a set of reference characteristics for respective session types in the plurality of sessions to perform the classifying. The feature values are analyzed for the plurality of session types using a model to generate a prediction for the service and the is outputted prediction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Fabian Gallusser
  • Patent number: 12069117
    Abstract: A system for transferring a playback of media content from a first network-connected playback device to a second network-connected playback device is disclosed. The system includes a processor; a computer-readable non-transitory storage media with instructions that cause the processor to perform operations including: receiving, at a media navigation device, a request to transfer a playback marker of the media content from the first playback device to the second playback device; responsive to receiving the request, stopping a playback of the media content on the first playback device, wherein the playback marker indicates a stop timecode within a timeline associated with the media content at which the playback of the media content is stopped on the first playback device; responsive to the media navigation device being within a predetermined distance to the second playback device, automatically resuming playback of the media content on the second playback device at the stop timecode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
    Inventor: Evan Schneider
  • Publication number: 20240268348
    Abstract: In some implementations, a controller may obtain global positioning system (GPS) data from a GPS unit of an enrichment device. The controller may determine habitat information identifying a habitat for animals, of a plurality of habitats of animals, using the GPS data. The controller may determine a geofence of the habitat for animals based on the habitat information. The controller may determine a movement profile associated with the habitat for animals using the habitat information. The movement profile identifies one or more motions of the enrichment device. The controller may cause the enrichment device to move, within a boundary of the geofence, in accordance with the one or more motions of the movement profile. The enrichment device may move in accordance with the one or more motions to stimulate movement of one or more animals of the habitat for animals. The controller may monitor the movement and/or animal interaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew J. MILLUZZI, Angela MILLER, Sylvester KWO, Kathryn SKOBRAK, Patrick M. POTTS, Jose DOMINGUEZ, Cecelia DAHLINGER, Emma LEE, Michael BREEN, Andrew ALBA
  • Patent number: 12062870
    Abstract: A conductor connector guard adapted for enclosing or housing one-to-many junctions between separable connectors. The guard is configured to house separable connectors for 3-channel, 5-channel, or 7-channel power distribution, with some of the embodiments presented being configured to house five pairs of separable connectors, with the connectors taking the form of single-pole conductor connectors in some cases. The guard is designed to comply with safety requirements for power distribution junctions that may be positioned within a public space. The guard is configured to provide a compact solution when contrasted with prior configurations involving physical barriers around power distribution junctions or involving physical objects such as trash cannisters and planters being placed over junctions. The guard is also adapted to provide enhanced public safety for spliced or joined conductors and to sequester energy sources in public spaces such as with a lock and tag out-type device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Ken W. Wagner, Scott Carlton Peterson, Chris M. Dodge
  • Patent number: 12062152
    Abstract: According to one implementation, a system for performing re-noising and neural network (NN) based image enhancement includes a computing platform having a processing hardware and a system memory storing a software code, a noise synthesizer, and an image restoration NN. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to receive a denoised image component and a noise component extracted from a degraded image, to generate, using the noise synthesizer and the noise component, synthesized noise corresponding to the noise component, and to interpolate, using the noise component and the synthesized noise, an output image noise. The processing hardware is further configured to execute the software code to enhance, using the image restoration NN, the denoised image component to provide an output image component, and to re-noise the output image component, using the output image noise, to produce an enhanced output image corresponding to the degraded image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Abdelaziz Djelouah, Shinobu Hattori, Christopher Richard Schroers
  • Publication number: 20240267534
    Abstract: A method receives a video. The method analyzes information for a pixel of a frame in the video to determine a first value and a second value for the pixel. The first value is based on an image structure formed by the pixel in the frame and the second value is based on interframe motion of the image structure at the pixel. A third value is determined for an amount of judder based on the first value and the second value. The method outputs the third value to evaluate the video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Richard Schroers, Blake Sloan, Mitchel Jacobs, Scott Labrozzi, Shinobu Hattori, Felix Klose
  • Publication number: 20240259646
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method identifies a target item. A first score for a bridge item is generated using a first input where the first input is based on a characteristic of an entity. A second score for the target item is generated using a second input. The second input is based on the characteristic of the entity and the bridge item. The method determines whether to output the bridge item to the entity based on the first score and the second score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Fabian Gallusser, Lian Jian
  • Patent number: 12051239
    Abstract: Tracking an item of interest through an environment is described. Tracking the item of interest through the environment is accomplished using passive optical tracking where an item is identified in an image of the environment using image processing and various locations of the item are tracked through the environment. When a user wants to know an item's location, a location image is projected onto the location of the item to allow a user view a current location of the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Evan M. Goldberg, Mark R. Mine, Matthew Deuel, Daniel L. Baker, Dane M. Coffey, Steven M. Chapman
  • Patent number: 12049942
    Abstract: A curling effect is provided via a system, which may be included in an article, via a plurality of links, including distal, proximal, and intermediary links, that each comprise: a base; first and second wings, connected to opposite sides of the base such that each of first and second through-holes are aligned at a first height; and a header, connected between the wings that defines a third through-hole at the first height and a fourth through-hole at a second height different from the first height that is configured to accept a stringer there-through so that a force applied on the stringer in a direction from the distal link towards the proximal link causes rotation of neighboring links relative to one another; the neighboring links being joined via a linking axel disposed on a shared axis through the first, second, and third through-holes of the neighboring links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Clifford Wong
  • Patent number: 12042719
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to gameplay using mobile devices. Embodiments include receiving, by a first device, player input initiating a targeted action. Embodiments include determining, by the first device, an orientation of the first device. Embodiments include determining, by the first device, a location of at least a second device based at least on a message received from the second device. Embodiments include identifying, by the first device, that a target of the targeted action is associated with the second device based on the orientation of the first device and the location of the second device. Embodiments include transmitting, by the first device, an indication of the targeted action to the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan D. Nocon, R. Hunter Gough
  • Patent number: 12047378
    Abstract: A content transport security system includes a computing platform having processing hardware and a memory storing software code and a database including one or more business rule(s). The processing hardware executes the software code to intercept a content file including a content asset, during a file transfer of the content file between a client device and a destination device, determine an authorization status of the destination device, and decrypt the content file, using a decryption key corresponding to an encryption key available to the client device. The processing hardware further executes the software code to search the content asset for a forensic identifier, assign a classification to the file transfer, based on the authorization status and a result of the searching, the classification being one of allowable, forbidden, or suspicious, and allow or block the file transfer to the destination device, based on the classification and the business rule(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Rebecca Bever, Sarah Y. Moon, Erika Varis Doggett, Bethany Harvey Frauenberger, Eric J. Avila
  • Patent number: 12041289
    Abstract: According to one implementation, a method of guiding an interaction between a companion module and a user includes identifying a media content for playout by a media player device, transmitting, to a remote server, an interaction schema request identifying the media content and the companion module, and receiving, from the remote server, behavioral manifest data including an instruction for guiding the interaction between the companion module and the user. Such a method also includes obtaining a play head state of the media player device and a playout timecode state of the media content, and identifying a user interaction behavior for the companion module based on the behavioral manifest data, the play head state of the media player device, and the playout timecode state of the media content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Comito, Dirk Van Dall, James Bowers, Anthony Waters, Thomas Engel
  • Publication number: 20240210948
    Abstract: In some implementations, a ride control simulation system may receive a request to simulate a ride control system controlling a movement of a passenger vehicle on a ride system, wherein the request includes vehicle information regarding the passenger vehicle and ride system information regarding the ride system. The ride control simulation system may execute, based on the request, a computer model to simulate the ride control system controlling the movement of the passenger vehicle on the ride system. Executing the computer model comprises randomly selecting values from one or more data distributions. The computer model is executed using the first value, the second value, and the third value as inputs. The ride control simulation system may cause an adjustment to an operation of the ride system based on a result of executing the computer model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael TSCHANZ, Jose CORPUZ, Michael S. WELCH
  • Publication number: 20240207748
    Abstract: An interaction system may receive trigger information associated with a facilitator device of a facilitator at a venue. The trigger information may be transmitted based on the facilitator operating the facilitator device during an interaction between the facilitator and one or more participants. The interaction system may determine, based on receiving the trigger information, that interaction information has been provided to the one or more participants. The interaction system may determine, in response to the trigger information, that the facilitator was located at a particular sensing location. The interaction system may obtain, using sensing location information identifying the particular sensing location, participant device information regarding a participant device located at the particular sensing location during the interaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Blake A. FRICKER, Peter STEPNIEWICZ, Thomas F. JOHNSON, Thomas ARTHUR, John K. LEWIS, Steven C. EATON, Octavian PETRESCU, Jackson DUNSTAN, Michael M. GONTERMAN, Sara THACHER
  • Patent number: 12019763
    Abstract: In some implementations, a device may provide a data structure storing first data, wherein the first data indirectly identifies second data, and wherein the second data identifies a particular individual. The device may obtain, from the data structure, the first data. The device may generate a cryptographically random value using a secure generator. The device may combine the first data and the cryptographically random value to generate hashing input data. The device may perform, using a hashing algorithm, a hashing operation on the hashing input data to generate de-identified first data, wherein re-identification of the de-identified first data requires knowledge of at least the first data, the cryptographically random value, and the de-identified first data. The device may perform an action using the de-identified first data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew W. Yuchas, Benjamin Israelson, Gregory Clayton, Steven Maltby
  • Patent number: 12019811
    Abstract: This disclosure presents systems and methods to cause an input device to provide movement-based output. Exemplary implementations may: establish a wireless connection between the one or more physical processors and an input device, the input device being configured to provide control signals for controlling a graphical user interface; determine motion control signals for the input device, the motion control signals dictating physical movement of the input device in a real-world environment; effectuate communication of the motion control signals to the input device thereby causing the input device to perform the physical movement in the real-world environment; and/or perform other operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael P. Goslin
  • Publication number: 20240202388
    Abstract: In some implementations, a simulation platform may receive a request to perform a simulation of operations of a plurality of components. The simulation platform may receive first fidelity information identifying a first level of detail and functionality to be simulated for a first component of the plurality of components, wherein the first level of detail and functionality is part of a first plurality of levels of details and functionalities to be simulated for the first component. The simulation platform may receive second fidelity information identifying a second level of detail and functionality to be simulated for a second component of the plurality of components, wherein the second level of detail and functionality is part of a second plurality of levels of details and functionalities to be simulated for the second component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick J. MCNAULL, Robert J. MARRA, Christopher C. HOFER, Brian F. WALTERS
  • Patent number: D1037781
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Daria Vinogradova