Patents Assigned to Sphere Entertainment Group, LLC
  • Patent number: 12238510
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for visualizing sound coverage in a venue. An embodiment operates by receiving audio content from an audio source, determining audio signal properties of the audio content, where the audio signal properties comprise one or more spectral, temporal, spatial components (e.g., energy, spectrum or directivity), receiving an audio system configuration of loudspeakers or sound beams of a venue, visualizing the audio signal based on a mapping of an intersection of a unique volumetric beam of colored light, representing the spectral, temporal, spatial components, with a portion of the venue and displaying the visualized audio signal as a virtual representation of sound coverage of the portion of the venue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLC
    Inventors: Yuan-Yi Fan, Neil Andrew Wakefield
  • Patent number: 12231835
    Abstract: An integrated audio-visual system is disclosed for delivering an event to one or more spectators. The integrated audio-visual system includes one or more loudspeakers that are positioned behind one or more visual displays to be effectively behind the one or more visual displays to be shielded from the field of view of the one or more spectators. The one or more visual displays are specially designed and manufactured to allow sound associated with the event to propagate from the one or more loudspeakers with minimal acoustical distortion and/or minimum acoustical vibration while presenting a visual representation of the event to the one or more spectators. Moreover, the one or more loudspeakers and the one or more visual displays are situated to be a predetermined displacement from each other to further minimize acoustical distortion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignees: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLC, Holoplot GmbH
    Inventors: Erik Hockman, Alex Luthwaite, Emad Yacoub Hanna
  • Patent number: 12229041
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for generating a Virtual Reality (VR) simulation. By combining physical and simulated data from a physical, virtual mobile device and virtual environment and rendering that within a VR simulation, the system can give the developer a more hands-on accurate representation and feel for how their mobile app can work at a real-world environment. This VR simulation assists a developer to cut down on iteration and travel time when developing, debugging, and testing their mobile apps/games for real-world environments, location-based entertainment (LBE) venues including indoor or outdoor installations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Poynter, David E. Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 12219231
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image sensor package including a printed circuit board, an image sensor electrically coupled to the printed circuit board, a sealing configuration coupled to a front face of the printed circuit board via a first gasket, and a base coupled to a back face of the printed circuit board via a second gasket. Electronic components embedded on the back face of the printed circuit board align with and connect to mating pads surrounding the image sensor on the front face of the printed circuit board. Wire bonds electrically connect the image sensor to the mating pads and the electronic components. The sealing configuration includes a cover attached to a frame surrounding the image sensor. A gap separates the image sensor from abutting the surrounding printed circuit board, which is coupled to the image sensor via the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Graae, Deanan Dasilva, Jason Daughenbaugh, Bryan Robertus, Jason Kay, Logan Mcdermot, Wayne Hansen, Timothy J. Bierman
  • Publication number: 20250037358
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for utilizing non-RAM memory to implement large digital display emulations. An embodiment operates by generating, by an emulator device, a pixel map of a digital display, wherein the pixel map comprises a plurality of pixels representative of a plurality of light emitting elements arranged on a viewable surface of the large digital display. A position and orientation of a virtual viewer to the viewable surface of the large digital display is generated and the emulator device emulates the large digital display based on the pixel map and the position and the orientation of the virtual viewer and renders the digital content based on the emulated large digital display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLC
    Inventors: William Andrew NOLAN, Michael ROMASZEWICZ, Michael RANKIN
  • Patent number: 12207426
    Abstract: An exterior display system can be configured and arranged around a structure. The exterior display system includes a mechanical supporting structure configured and arranged about the exterior surface of the structure. This mechanical supporting structure can include various supporting structures and/or mounting structures which are configured and arranged to form a mechanical lattice framework. An electronic visual display device can be connected to the mechanical lattice framework to form the exterior display system. The electronic visual display device can include multiple electronic visual display panels which are connected to the mechanical lattice framework. Each of these multiple electronic visual display panels can include multiple groups of multiple light-emitting diodes (LEDs), also referred to electronic LED disc assemblies, that are configured and arranged in a series of one or more rows and/or a series of one or more columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLC
    Inventors: Alex Luthwaite, Miguel Fontgivell Ariño, Jonathan Lawrence Mallie, Aric Gabriel Braselton, Nicholas Craig Reynolds, Maria Charlotta Knutsson-Hall, Cawsie Jijina
  • Publication number: 20250014300
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for mobile device tracking system within a VR simulation. The method includes determining a position and orientation of a mobile device tracking module (e.g., case) attached to a mobile device, calculating a position and orientation of the of the mobile device based at least partially on a position and orientation of a tracking module, simulating a real world environment, generating a virtual visualization of the mobile device and rendering a VR simulation based at least partially on the position and orientation of the display screen of the mobile device. The position and orientation of the display screen provides a virtual position and orientation of the display screen relative to a virtual origin within the VR simulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin POYNTER, David E. RODRIGUEZ
  • Publication number: 20250005835
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses disclosed herein can incorporate one or more real-world performers that are performing within a venue into interactive content. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can identify one or more joints or ligaments, for example, left shoulders, right knees, among others, of the one or more real-world performers from the image, or the series of images, of the one or more real-world performers. These joints or ligaments can be represented as one or more performer markers. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can generate one or more three-dimensional models of the one or more real-world performers in a three-dimensional space from the one or more performer markers. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can apply the one or more three-dimensional models of the one or more real-world performers to the one or more virtual characters in the three-dimensional space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLC
    Inventor: Benjamin Poynter
  • Publication number: 20240428511
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses disclosed herein can process a three-dimensional model of an object in a three-dimensional space to display the object on a real-world structure. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can access the three-dimensional model of the object, generate a three-dimensional reflection model of the object, and/or provide the three-dimensional reflection model of the object to the real-world structure to display the object on the real-world structure. Alternatively, or additionally, these systems, methods, and apparatuses can transform the three-dimensional reflection model of the object onto a two-dimensional reflection model of the object and/or provide the two-dimensional reflection model of the object to the real-world structure to display the object on the real-world structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLC
    Inventors: Liam McClellan WARD, Tanner Luke THOMPSON, Robert Ashely WAGERS
  • Publication number: 20240412477
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for intelligently distributing virtual objects within a 3D virtual space using a voxel-based heat map. The approach is highly flexible and scalable, and a designer may guide the placement of virtual objects using parameters that reference the voxel-based heat map. This technique affords designers expansive creative control over a wide-array of scenarios that involve placing a virtual object into a virtual 3D space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Hitchcock, Emily Saunders
  • Publication number: 20240412717
    Abstract: Exemplary air amplifiers described herein can utilize a high-pressure stream of gas to accelerate a low-velocity stream of gas to provide a high-velocity, high-volume stream of gas. This high-velocity, high-volume stream of gas can generate unwanted noise as the high-velocity, high-volume stream of gas propagates through the air amplifier. The exemplary air amplifiers described herein can include a multi-stage noise suppression system to suppress, for example, diminish, re-tune, or even completely cancel, the unwanted noise as the high-velocity, high-volume stream of gas propagates through these exemplary air amplifiers. The multi-stage noise suppression system can include one or more absorption materials to passively suppress the unwanted noise generated by the high-velocity, high-volume stream of gas. The multi-stage noise suppression system described herein can generate one or more noise suppression waves to actively suppress the unwanted noise generated by the high-velocity, high-volume stream of gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLC
    Inventors: Robert ANDERSON, Erik Hockman, Michael Rives
  • Patent number: 12160964
    Abstract: An exterior display system can be configured and arranged around a structure. The exterior display system includes a mechanical supporting structure configured and arranged about the exterior surface of the structure. This mechanical supporting structure can include various supporting structures and/or mounting structures which are configured and arranged to form a mechanical lattice framework. An electronic visual display device can be connected to the mechanical lattice framework to form the exterior display system. The electronic visual display device can include multiple electronic visual display panels which are connected to the mechanical lattice framework. Each of these multiple electronic visual display panels can include multiple groups of multiple light-emitting diodes (LEDs), also referred to electronic LED disc assemblies, that are configured and arranged in a series of one or more rows and/or a series of one or more columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLC
    Inventors: Alex Luthwaite, Miguel Fontgivell Ariño
  • Patent number: 12154600
    Abstract: A mechanical enclosure provides a mechanism for coupling a storage device to a computer system. The mechanical enclosure can be removably coupled to the computer system and can allow for coupling of the storage device to the computer system without using specialty cables and connectors. The mechanical enclosure can allow the storage device to be coupled to computer system without significantly degrading the speed at which the data stored within the storage device is downloaded onto the computer. The storage device can be inserted into the mechanical enclosure which couples the storage device to the mechanical enclosure. The mechanical enclosure can be inserted into the computer system which similarly couples the computer system to the mechanical enclosure to effectively couple the storage device and the computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLC
    Inventors: Eric Sagotsky, John Michael Matreci, Michael Horace Graae
  • Publication number: 20240389200
    Abstract: A system for transporting a fluid from a fluid source to an effects pod to provide atmospheric effects to an audience in a venue can include a pipe assembly. The pipe assembly can include a pipe for fluid communication with the fluid source, a connector disposed at an end of the pipe to couple to at least one of a flexible conduit or another pipe assembly, and a pipe support coupled to the pipe, such that a lower portion of the pipe support contacts a ground surface to hold the pipe a distance above the ground surface. The pipe assembly can further include insulation abutting at least a portion of the pipe. Additionally, the pipe assembly can include a heat trace in contact with the pipe. The system can include a cart to transport the pipe assembly. A plurality of pipe assemblies can be connected in series to transport the fluid from the fluid source to the effects pod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLC
    Inventor: Michael RIVES
  • Patent number: 12148092
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for utilizing non-RAM memory to implement large digital display emulations. An embodiment operates by generating, by an emulator device, a pixel map of a digital display, wherein the pixel map comprises a plurality of pixels representative of a plurality of light emitting elements arranged on a viewable surface of the large digital display. A distance and orientation of a virtual viewer to the viewable surface of the large digital display is generated and the emulator device emulates the large digital display based on the pixel map and the distance and the orientation of the virtual viewer and renders the digital content based on the emulated large digital display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLC
    Inventors: William Andrew Nolan, Michael Romaszewicz, Michael Rankin
  • Publication number: 20240377879
    Abstract: Real-world users of an event simulation system can playback a digital representation of an event that is mapped onto a virtual model of a real-world venue to simulate the event being presented at a real-world venue. As the real-world users are viewing this virtual event, these users can virtually interact with the virtual event, for example, move around the virtual event to view the virtual event at various locations and/or modify parameters, characteristics, and/or attributes of the virtual event. Thereafter, the event simulation system can propagate these modifications across multiple real-world users of the event simulation system to allow these real-world users to collaboratively interact with the virtual event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLC
    Inventors: Vlad SPEARS, Sasha BRENMAN, Michael ROMASZEWICZ, Michael RANKIN, Emily SAUNDERS, Stephen HITCHCOCK, Ciera JONES
  • Patent number: 12141934
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for mobile device tracking system within a VR simulation. The method includes determining a position and orientation of a mobile device tracking module (e.g., case) attached to a mobile device, calculating a position and orientation of the of the mobile device based at least partially on a position and orientation of a tracking module, simulating a real world environment, generating a virtual visualization of the mobile device and rendering a VR simulation based at least partially on the position and orientation of the display screen of the mobile device. The position and orientation of the display screen provides a virtual position and orientation of the display screen relative to a virtual origin within the VR simulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Poynter, David E. Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 12143559
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for rendering a contiguous virtual space for a plurality of display devices. An embodiment operates by identifying a projection of a virtual camera onto a virtual plane and determining a display plane area based on an intersection of the projection of the virtual camera onto the virtual plane. Thereafter, a position for a plurality of virtual windows correlating to a plurality of real-world display devices on the display plane area is calculated based on (i) properties of the display devices and (ii) a focal length of the virtual camera. After placing the virtual windows their respective display plane area positions, content behind a virtual window is identified and provided to the corresponding real-world display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Ragan, Kurt Kaminski
  • Publication number: 20240320894
    Abstract: A system and methods for providing interactive content to an audience is disclosed. In aspects, system implements methods to receive sensor data captured by one or more sensors affixed to a performer. A graphical visualization is rendered based on the sensor data. The graphical visualization is transmitted to one or more external devices associated with one or more members of the audience for incorporation into a application executing on the one or more external devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLC
    Inventor: Benjamin POYNTER
  • Publication number: 20240323508
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, and method for accurately setting a focus flange depth and planarity of a camera lens. An aspect includes a lens housing with at least one camera lens, a camera body with an imaging plane, and a lens mount removably coupling the lens housing to the camera body via a coupling mechanism. At least one shim may be inserted between the lens mount and the camera body to adjust a depth, pitch, and yaw of the camera lens in the lens housing with respect to the imaging plane in the camera body. Each shim may comprise a body having an opening extending from an edge of the body to a center of the body. The opening of each shim is configured to receive the coupling mechanism such that the pitch and yaw may be adjusted without fully removing the lens housing from the camera body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLC
    Inventors: Deanan DASILVA, Michael Graae, Bryan Guenther, John Michael Eric Mongelli, Timothy John Bierman, Logan Andrew McDermot