Patents Assigned to Sphere Entertainment Group, LLC
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Publication number: 20250240597Abstract: Provided herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing an interactive visual representation of loudspeaker sound coverage in a venue. An embodiment enables temporal, spectral, and spatial audio metering from digital audio to venue acoustics. This technology can visualize audio capabilities of one or more loudspeaker arrays using light to provide visualization grouping of large audio channel outputs. This can allow spatial information to be visually represented by mapping directional sound to light beams.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2025Publication date: July 24, 2025Applicant: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLCInventors: Yuan-Yi FAN, Neil WAKEFIELD
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Publication number: 20250227213Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses can store digital image data that is related to an image, or a series of images, commonly visualized as video. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can store the digital image data as unprocessed digital image data in a raw image format that includes color information, for example, luminance and/or chrominance color components of YUV color model and/or red, green, and/or blue color components of a red, green, blue (RGB) color model to provide some examples, for each pixel of the image. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can stripe the digital image data into multiple blocks of image data and can, thereafter, partitions the multiple blocks of image data into multiple blocks of pixel data. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can distribute the multiple blocks of pixel data across multiple memory modules that can operate in parallel to improve read and/or write performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2025Publication date: July 10, 2025Applicant: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLCInventors: Deanan DASILVA, Michael Graae, Jason Daughenbaugh, Anthony James Lukes
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Patent number: 12348918Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 28, 2023Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignees: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLC, Holoplot GmbHInventors: Erik Hockman, Alex Luthwaite, Emad Yacoub Hanna
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Patent number: 12335590Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 5, 2024Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLCInventors: Deanan DaSilva, Michael Graae, Bryan Guenther, John Michael Eric Mongelli, Timothy John Bierman, Logan Andrew McDermot
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Patent number: 12322022Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 7, 2024Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLCInventor: Benjamin Poynter
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Patent number: 12317066Abstract: Provided herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing an interactive visual representation of loudspeaker sound coverage in a venue. An embodiment enables temporal, spectral, and spatial audio metering from digital audio to venue acoustics. This technology can visualize audio capabilities of one or more loudspeaker arrays using light to provide visualization grouping of large audio channel outputs. This can allow spatial information to be visually represented by mapping directional sound to light beams.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2024Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLCInventors: Yuan-Yi Fan, Neil Wakefield
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Publication number: 20250159428Abstract: 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, analyzing a plurality of activated audio channels to determine properties of each audio signal within the plurality of activated audio channels, 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 spatially clustered loudspeakers or sound beams of a venue, visualizing the properties of 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: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2025Publication date: May 15, 2025Applicant: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLCInventors: Yuan-Yi FAN, Neil Andrew WAKEFIELD
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Publication number: 20250150697Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2025Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLCInventors: Michael GRAAE, Deanan DASILVA, Jason DAUGHENBAUGH, Bryan ROBERTUS, Jason KAY, Logan MCDERMOT, Wayne HANSEN, Timothy J. BIERMAN
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Publication number: 20250147873Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2025Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLCInventors: Benjamin POYNTER, David E. RODRIGUEZ
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Publication number: 20250120024Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicant: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLCInventors: Alex LUTHWAITE, Miguel Fontgivell Ariño, Jonathan Lawrence Mallie, Aric Gabriel Braselton, Nicholas Craig Reynolds, Maria Charlotta Knutsson-Hall, Cawsie Jijina
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Publication number: 20250087246Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2024Publication date: March 13, 2025Applicant: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLCInventors: Eric SAGOTSKY, John Michael MATRECI, Michael Horace GRAAE
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Patent number: 12244886Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products can provide visual guidance on presenting content on a media surface of a venue. These systems, methods, and computer program products can operate by mapping visual content onto a media surface of the venue and a key feature unique to the visual content and/or the media surface being extracted. Thereafter, these systems, methods, and computer program products can retrieve an experiment metric corresponding to the visual content and/or the media surface and can determine a viewer location metric and/or a media surface metric based on the experiment metric and the key feature. These systems, methods, and computer program products can utilize the viewer location metric and/or the media surface metric to provide a hint of the attribute to a user.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLCInventors: David E. Rodriguez, Michael Ramaszewicz, Evan Schectman, Michael Graae, Clay Budin, Mateusz Marcinowski
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Patent number: 12238510Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 22, 2024Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLCInventors: Yuan-Yi Fan, Neil Andrew Wakefield
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Patent number: 12231835Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 28, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignees: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLC, Holoplot GmbHInventors: Erik Hockman, Alex Luthwaite, Emad Yacoub Hanna
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Patent number: 12229041Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLCInventors: Benjamin Poynter, David E. Rodriguez
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Patent number: 12219231Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 12, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLCInventors: Michael Graae, Deanan Dasilva, Jason Daughenbaugh, Bryan Robertus, Jason Kay, Logan Mcdermot, Wayne Hansen, Timothy J. Bierman
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Publication number: 20250037358Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2024Publication date: January 30, 2025Applicant: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLCInventors: William Andrew NOLAN, Michael ROMASZEWICZ, Michael RANKIN
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Patent number: 12207426Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 9, 2023Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLCInventors: Alex Luthwaite, Miguel Fontgivell Ariño, Jonathan Lawrence Mallie, Aric Gabriel Braselton, Nicholas Craig Reynolds, Maria Charlotta Knutsson-Hall, Cawsie Jijina
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Publication number: 20250014300Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicant: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLCInventors: Benjamin POYNTER, David E. RODRIGUEZ
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Publication number: 20250005835Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2023Publication date: January 2, 2025Applicant: Sphere Entertainment Group, LLCInventor: Benjamin Poynter