Disney Patents
The Walt Disney Company is an entertainment company focused on media networks, parks and resorts, studio entertainment, consumer products and interactive games. The company's media holdings include ESPN (partial ownership), the Disney channels, ABC Family and A&E Television Networks (partial ownership). The company also operates Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Aulani, the Disney Cruise Line, and has partial ownership interests in Disneyland Paris, Hong Kong Disneyland, and Shanghai Disney. Tokyo Disneyland is operated by an independent company that licenses Disney intellectual property and pays royalties based on revenues. Disney also produces live-action and animated motion pictures, direct-to-video content, musical recordings and live stage plays, and distributes Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Touchstone films.
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Patent number: 12688732Abstract: A guest assistance platform may analyze video data of an environment that includes a liquid substance. The video data is analyzed using a machine learning model trained to detect objects in the liquid substance. The guest assistance platform may detect an individual in the liquid substance based on analyzing the video data and may determine a measure of confidence associated with detecting the individual in the liquid substance. The guest assistance platform may determine one or more confidence factors associated with detecting the individual in the liquid substance. The guest assistance platform may modify the measure of confidence using the one or more confidence factors and may determine whether the modified measure of confidence satisfies a confidence threshold. The guest assistance platform may selectively cause assistance to be provided to the individual or continue analyzing the video data based on whether the modified measure of confidence satisfies the confidence threshold.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2023Date of Patent: July 21, 2026Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Brooks Hale, Gary D. Markowitz, Clifford Aron Wilkinson, Ching-Chien Chen
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Publication number: 20260205660Abstract: In some embodiments, a method determines a number of session types. Training data from sessions is analyzed to cluster the data in the number of session types. The method trains a model using the number of session types. Feature values for the session types are input into the model. The model generates an output based on the feature values. The output is compared to a reference output for the feature values. The method alters the number of session types based on comparing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2026Publication date: July 16, 2026Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventor: Fabian Gallusser
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Publication number: 20260195548Abstract: In some embodiments, a method receives a first translation for an instance of content. A first prompt is generated to refine the first translation. The first prompt includes instructions to refine the first translation and a scoring guide. The method inputs the first prompt into a large language model to generate a score for the first translation and suggestions for the first translation. The method evaluates the score to determine whether the first translation meets a threshold. When the score does not meet the threshold: the method generates a second prompt to refine the first translation, inputs the second prompt into the large language model to refine the first translation using one or more of the suggestions to generate a second translation, and provides feedback to the generate another first prompt to refine the second translation. When the score meets the threshold, the method outputs the first translation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2025Publication date: July 9, 2026Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Clifford Hilo, Guglielmo Camporese, Ana Jessica Payes, Shinobu Hattori, Mitsuaki Watanabe, Dan Sebastian Ruta
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Patent number: 12675973Abstract: In some embodiments, a method selects first content and second content. The first content and the second content are configured to be delivered to clients. First labels are determined for categories for the first content. The first labels are based on an analysis of the first content. Second labels are determined for the categories for the second content. The second labels are based on an analysis of the second content. The method compares the first labels and the second labels to determine scores for the first labels. The scores is based on parameters of a matching tool that is configured to determine a match between instances of content. A weight of a category is used to adjust a score in the scores to generate an adjusted score. The score is for the label that is determined for the category. The method outputs information for the adjusted score and other scores.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2023Date of Patent: July 7, 2026Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Lori Huck, Melissa Mirch, Scott Morehead, Mara Lucien, Alexander Niedt
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Patent number: 12675917Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for performing identity-preserving image generation. The technique includes converting an identity image depicting a facial identity into an identity embedding. The technique further includes generating a combined embedding based on the identity embedding and a diffusion iteration identifier. The technique further includes converting, using a neural network and based on the combined embedding, a first input image that includes first noise into a first predicted image depicting one or more facial features that include one or more first facial identity features, wherein the one or more first facial identity features correspond to one or more respective second facial identity features of the identity image and are based at least on the identity embedding.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2023Date of Patent: July 7, 2026Assignees: Disney Enterprises, INC., ETH Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)Inventors: Manuel Jakob Kansy, Anton Julien Raël, Jacek Krzysztof Naruniec, Christopher Richard Schroers, Romann Matthew Weber
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Patent number: 12675471Abstract: Techniques for generating a result for a search query. These techniques include identifying a complex search query including more than two parameters, dividing the complex search query into one or more components, and determining an intent for each of the one or more components using machine learning (ML), the ML including at least one of: a large language model (LLM) or natural language processing (NLP) neural network. The techniques further include generating a result for the search query based on routing each component through a pipeline using the respective intent, the pipeline including both a query against a graph database and a search against a vector database.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2024Date of Patent: July 7, 2026Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: David DeWet Raal, Jason Alexander Cox
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Publication number: 20260185651Abstract: In some implementations, an assembly may comprise a ball comprising one or more first channels provided on an outer surface of the ball. The assembly may further comprise a material configured to harden or cure within a threshold amount of time. The assembly may further comprise a socket configured to receive the ball in an opening defined by an inner surface of the socket. The socket may comprise one or more second channels provided on the inner surface of the socket and an injection port configured to receive the material and distribute the material to the one or more first channels and the one or more second channels. After the material hardens or cures within the threshold amount of time, the ball may be permanently secured within the socket.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2024Publication date: July 2, 2026Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventor: Richard H. KIRCHHOFF
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Patent number: 12669747Abstract: A system may comprise a fog generating unit configured to generate fog; a fog distributing unit comprising: an intake component configured to receive the fog generated by the fog generating unit, a fog manifold configured to receive the fog from the intake component and separate the fog into a plurality of fog portions, a fog laminar assembly comprising a plurality of laminar portions configured to receive the plurality of fog portions and generate a plurality of laminar flows of fog using the plurality of fog portions; and a plurality of light sources configured to illuminate the plurality of laminar flows of fog to create a plurality of images, of an item, on the plurality of laminar flows of fog.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2023Date of Patent: June 30, 2026Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Daniel M. Joseph, Jessica Klouda
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Patent number: 12669396Abstract: A system for adjusting torque value settings on click type torque wrenches. The system is configured to limit repetitive motions by an operator including limiting repetitive wrist movements to rotate a wrench handle, while also providing a very portable and easy to use system with built-in safety features. The system includes an electric motor or driver that is operable, e.g., by manual movement of a lever on a controller or control signals from a digital controller, to rotate the head of the wrench while the operator holds the wrench handle in an unlocked configuration. The operator inserts the head of the wrench into an adaptive, self-centering chuck provided at the output of the electric motor. A tool rest extends from a base of the system at an end opposite the mounting chuck, and this rest is configured to support the body of the wrench parallel to the motor shaft.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2023Date of Patent: June 30, 2026Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventor: Kenneth Wayne Culotta
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Patent number: 12669235Abstract: A system, comprising: a first array of lasers; a first linear polarizer; a second array of lasers; a second linear polarizer provided at an angle with respect to the first linear polarizer; a first beamsplitter coupled to the first linear polarizer; a phosphor assembly; a collimator lens; a third linear polarizer; a second beamsplitter coupled to the third linear polarizer; and a telephoto lens.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2024Date of Patent: June 30, 2026Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Daniel M. Joseph, Veronica Chen, Jessica Klouda
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Publication number: 20260179202Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for automated video quality assessment using a hybrid neural network architecture. A sequence of video frames is received and partitioned into fragments, which are further subdivided into patches and encoded as tokens. The tokens are processed in parallel by a state space model, configured to extract temporal features, and by a convolutional neural network, configured to extract spatial features. The resulting feature representations are combined to form a unified embedding, which is input to a prediction head to generate local and overall quality scores indicative of the perceptual quality of the video. In some embodiments, frame-level supervision is employed during training by comparing predicted per-frame scores to reference scores, improving accuracy and granularity.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2025Publication date: June 25, 2026Applicants: Disney Enterprises, Inc., ETH Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)Inventors: Yang ZHANG, Felix YANG, Christopher Richard SCHROERS
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Patent number: 12666002Abstract: A system and method for controlling and testing at least one remote media player device using a corresponding remote testing device and at least one user device not collocated with the remote testing device includes receiving from a user a selection of an available remote testing device, displaying on the user device a remote-control image or a list of automated tests, receiving from the user a selection of one of a remote-control command or an automated test as the selected remote command, sending the selected remote command to the selected remote testing device, receiving from the selected remote testing device a video output signal indicative of a medial player video output signal from the media player device in response to the selected remote command, and displaying the received video output signal on the user device simultaneously with the displaying of the remote-control image, while simultaneously performing the receiving and the sending of the selected remote commands.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2024Date of Patent: June 23, 2026Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Jeffrey Hollis, Roman Bediner, Jeffrey Eggert, Taylor White, Gavin Haynes, Andrew Pritykin
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Patent number: 12664618Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for denoising videos. In some embodiments, video frames are denoised using a denoising model that includes an encoder-decoder architecture and attention modules. During training of the denoising model, the attention modules learn weightings to upweight certain dimensions of input features to help pixel registration, remove ghosting artifacts, and improve temporal consistency when the frames of a video are being denoised. The denoising model can also be used to train a student denoising model that has a same architecture as, but is smaller and faster than, the denoising model. After training, noisy video frames can be input into the denoising model and/or the student denoising model to generate corresponding denoised video frames.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2022Date of Patent: June 23, 2026Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Yang Zhang, Tunc Ozan Aydin, Christopher Richard Schroers
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Patent number: 12664986Abstract: A system includes a hardware processor, a memory storing software code, and a machine learning (ML) model trained to detect an interruption to a conversation. The system detects, during a conversational turn by an artificial intelligence (AI) character in interaction with a human and/or another AI character, sound produced by the human and/or the other AI character, classifies, using the ML model, the sound as an interruption or irrelevant to the interaction. When the sound is irrelevant to the interaction, the conversational turn of the AI character continues. When the sound is an interruption, the system identifies a response strategy for continuing the interaction, and executes the response strategy including at least one of: (i) retention of the conversational turn, (ii) relinquishment of the conversational turn, or (iii) a negotiation, with the human and/or the other AI character, to determine the retention or the relinquishment of the conversational turn.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2024Date of Patent: June 23, 2026Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: James R. Kennedy, Reshmashree Bangalore Kantharaju, Maike Paetzel-Pruesmann, Ronald Cumbal, Komath Naveen Kumar
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Patent number: 12656784Abstract: A method may include comparing, using a virtual map, a position of a ride vehicle to a position of an obstacle in an operating environment; and querying a virtual map of an operating environment, the virtual map including a characteristic for an object within the operating environment; and maintaining, by a ride vehicle, a clearance envelope with respect to the object based on the object characteristic. Additional methods and associated systems are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2024Date of Patent: June 16, 2026Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Bradley A. Pease, Kevin T. Parent, Frank D. Mezzatesta, III, Andrew Jesse Milluzzi, William Bennett Hogue, Jr., Allan Bloemsma, Youssef Safwat Rokes, Selina L. Herman, Bryant D. Boyle
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Publication number: 20260161746Abstract: A traffic-overload protected content-sharing system, includes a content-providing device; a server in communication with the content providing device, wherein a processor of the server executes instructions that cause the processor to: receive content from the content-providing device; store the content on a memory component in communication with the server; set a geographic boundary on access to the content; receive a plurality of requests to access the content from one or more content-consuming devices; identify respective geographical locations of the one or more content-consuming devices; deny at least one of the plurality of requests based on the respective geographical location of the one or more content-consuming devices being outside the geographic boundary; and expand the geographic boundary based on the denial of the at least one of the plurality of requests.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2025Publication date: June 11, 2026Applicant: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Steven Makofsky, Nitzan Katz, Michael David Smith
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Patent number: 12651318Abstract: A system includes a hardware processor and a memory storing software code. The hardware processor executes the software code to receive a three-dimensional (3-D) image including a plurality of pixels each having a plurality of bins with respective depth values, select, for a first bin of the plurality of bins of a first pixel, a second bin in each of one or more nearest neighbor pixels of the first pixel, the second bin in each of the one or more nearest neighbor pixels having a most similar depth value to a depth value of the first bin. The hardware processor further executes the software code to generate a first depth-aware bin group including the first bin and the second bin in each of the one or more nearest neighbor pixels, and process, using the first depth-aware bin group, the 3-D image to produce a corresponding 3-D output image.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2024Date of Patent: June 9, 2026Assignees: Disney Enterprises, Inc., ETH ZURICH (EIDGENÖSSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZÜRICH)Inventors: Marios Papas, Gerhard Roethlin, Tunc Ozan Aydin, Xianyao Zhang, Farnood Salehi, Shilin Zhu
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Patent number: 12651397Abstract: The present invention sets forth a technique for simulating wrinkles under dynamic facial expression. The technique includes receiving a wrinkle graph, including a plurality of nodes associated with a plurality of pores included in a three-dimensional (3D) representation of a facial structure and a plurality of edges associated with a plurality of wrinkles included in the 3D representation of a facial structure. The technique also includes assigning one or more of the plurality of wrinkles associated with edges in the wrinkle graph to one of a plurality of bins and generating, for each of the bins, a plurality of pre-computed displacement texture maps. The technique further includes generating a per-frame displacement texture map and modifying an animation frame based on the per-frame displacement texture map, such that the modified animation frame depicts the plurality of pores and the plurality of wrinkles included in the 3D representation of the facial structure.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2024Date of Patent: June 9, 2026Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Derek Edward Bradley, Prashanth Chandran, Sebastian Klaus Weiss, Gaspard Zoss
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Patent number: 12645791Abstract: The present invention sets forth a technique for performing automated application security onboarding. The technique includes receiving, via an interactive dashboard, a designation associated with a software application and one or more items of application information associated with the software application. The technique also includes determining, in real-time and based on one or more schemas, that that the one or more items of application information are sufficient for executing one or more of a plurality of software scanning tools. The technique further includes transmitting the designation and the one or more items of application information to the plurality of software scanning tools, analyzing the software application via the plurality of software scanning tools, receiving, from the plurality of software scanning tools, one or more scan results based on the analysis, and displaying the one or more scan results via the interactive dashboard.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2024Date of Patent: June 2, 2026Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Truong Tuan Nguyen, Christian Matthew Gustafson, Daniel Micah Babb, Kenneth William De Hoop, Danielle Kish
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Patent number: 12639127Abstract: In some embodiments, a method receives usage data that is based on a delivery of content by a plurality of content delivery network entities. A first value of a selection parameter is used to determine whether to select a content delivery network entity from the plurality of content delivery network entities to process a first request for content. The method allocates the usage data in a first distribution to the plurality of content delivery network entities. The allocating does not use a condition to determine the first distribution. The usage data is allocated in a second distribution to the plurality of content delivery network entities. The allocating uses the condition to determine the second distribution. The method adjusts the first value of the selection parameter to a second value based on the first distribution and the second distribution.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2022Date of Patent: May 26, 2026Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Howe, Mark Kegel, Edward Russell, Joseph Higgins, Daniel Spiewak, Matthias Sainz
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Patent number: 12639627Abstract: A method for training a control system model includes introducing a simulated fault into a software simulation of a physical system and generating emulated sensor data based on the simulated fault, where the emulated sensor data emulates output from one or more sensors of the physical system. The method further includes obtaining output data from a test control system provided with the emulated sensor data, where the test control system emulates a control system of the physical system and tagging the output data with the simulated fault to create training data. The method further includes utilizing the training data to train the control system model, where the control system model is a machine learning model for use with the control system of the physical system during operation of the physical system.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2022Date of Patent: May 26, 2026Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Andrew Jesse Milluzzi, Faith Elizabeth Smith Haslebacher
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Patent number: 12639982Abstract: A behavior detection platform may obtain video data of an environment including a guest and may determine a set of normal guest behaviors associated with the environment. The platform may analyze, using a first machine learning model, the video data to identify features of the guest and analyze, using a second machine learning model, the video data and the features to determine an actual guest behavior of the guest. The platform may predict, using the second machine learning model, a predicted guest behavior of the guest based on the actual guest behavior. The behavior detection platform may determine that at least one of the actual guest behavior or the predicted guest behavior is not included in the set of normal guest behaviors. The platform may cause assistance to be provided to the guest based on determining that the actual guest behavior or the predicted guest behavior are not included.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2023Date of Patent: May 26, 2026Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Brooks Hale, Gary D. Markowitz, Clifford Aron Wilkinson, Ching-Chien Chen
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Patent number: 12639688Abstract: An automated test platform configured for use in testing and validating point of sale (POS) software and hardware. The platform is designed for mounting within shelf or drawer of a conventional server rack to enhance the safety and security of using the automated test platform, and a test system may include a plurality of server racks filled with dozens of the automated test platforms to concurrently test numerous terminals. The platform includes robotic or mechanical systems to perform EMV (Europay, Mastercard, and Visa) card inserts, swipes, and tap transactions on a payment or transaction terminal undergoing testing. The platform utilizes a robotic system that performs PIN (personal identification number) entry and button pressing on the touch screen of the payment or transaction terminal. The platform has capabilities of automating tests that require use of barcode scans and simulated network and/or device outages.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2023Date of Patent: May 26, 2026Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventor: Thomas Anthony Wilk, Jr.
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Patent number: 12638620Abstract: A wide-angle, retroreflective real image display system that produces real images that can be viewed and interacted with by a group of people who can move about a space to view the real image. The display system includes two or more stations each having their own retroreflector, beamsplitter, and displayed image or illuminated object. The stations, and their beamsplitters and retroreflectors are positioned adjacent at angular offsets or rotation angles, e.g., each neighboring or adjacent beamsplitter and retroreflector is rotated about an axis extending through the joining seam. The displayed images or illuminated objects are rotated at similar angles from each other to provide a retroreflective pyramid with co-located real images.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2023Date of Patent: May 26, 2026Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Quinn Y. Smithwick, Lanny S. Smoot, Michael Ilardi
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Patent number: 12639084Abstract: A system includes a computing platform including a hardware processor and a system memory storing a software code providing a user interface (UI) having a plurality of default parameters. The hardware processor is configured to execute the software code to receive interaction data describing interactions by a user with media content, identify, using the interaction data, at least one of a video characteristic or an audio characteristic of the media content, and determine, using the at least one of the video characteristic or the audio characteristic, one or more aesthetic preferences of the user. The hardware processor is further configured to execute the software code to modify, using the one or more aesthetic preferences of the user, one or more of the plurality of default parameters of the UI to generate a personalized UI for the user and provide the personalized UI to the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2023Date of Patent: May 26, 2026Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Lori L. Huck, Audrey Coyote Aura Beard, Michelle M. Phillips, Aileen Watson
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Patent number: 12639893Abstract: A method for detecting collisions associated with a simulation includes generating a plurality of spline-based representations associated with a plurality of objects. The method also includes determining a semialgebraic domain associated with the plurality of spline-based representations and performing an optimization over the semialgebraic domain to determine one or more collision states associated with the plurality of objects. The method further includes causing the simulation to be performed based on the one or more collision states.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2023Date of Patent: May 26, 2026Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Rasmus Tamstorf, Zoe Sarah Marschner, Paul Zhang
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Patent number: 12639942Abstract: In some embodiments, a method receives an image to analyze for artifacts. Texture information that characterizes texture in the image is determined. The method merges the texture information with the image. The texture information is used to focus an analysis of artifacts in regions of the image. The method outputs a score based on the processing of the image that assesses the artifacts in the image.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2024Date of Patent: May 26, 2026Assignees: Disney Enterprises, Inc., Beijing YoJaJa Software Technology Development Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xuchang Huangfu, Yuanyi Xue, Wenhao Zhang, Yang Zhang, Chen Liu, Xuewei Meng
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Publication number: 20260138038Abstract: In some implementations, a plush toy may comprise a strap receiving portion provided on a surface of the plush toy. The plush toy may comprise a strap integrated with the plush toy. The plush toy may comprise a fastener assembly having a first element provided on the strap receiving portion and a second element provided on the strap. The strap may be configured to be fastened across an item or through an opening of the item, and secured to the strap receiving portion, via the fastener assembly, such that the plush toy is secured to the item.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2024Publication date: May 21, 2026Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Monty MALDOVAN, Sarah ALLAN, Ariel CHRISTIAN, Samantha CASCIO
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Publication number: 20260138711Abstract: A handle assembly for a vessel may be configured to navigate a water pathway or a snow pathway. The handle assembly may include a handle connected to an upper surface of the vessel. The handle may have an outboard side facing an outer edge portion of the vessel and an inboard side facing an inner edge portion of the vessel. The handle assembly may include a hooded component sized to at least partially cover the outboard side of the handle such that, when a rider of the vessel places a hand on the handle, the hooded component may protect the hand from contacting (i) a surface defining the water pathway or the snow pathway, or (ii) an object within or adjacent to the water pathway or the snow pathway.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2024Publication date: May 21, 2026Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventor: Kenneth A. STEVENS
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Patent number: 12632317Abstract: There is provided a load balancer including a computing platform having processing hardware and a memory storing a software code. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to receive production data describing a media workflow, determine, using the production data, a priority status of the media workflow, identify production resources for processing the media workflow, and allocate, based on the priority status, one or more of the production resources to processing of the media workflow. In some implementations, the priority status is determined based on the type of content included in the media workflow. Moreover, in some implementations, the priority status is determined further based on a distribution schedule of a content feed corresponding to the media workflow.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: May 19, 2026Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Michael J. Strein, Ryan N. McCormick, Benjamin H. Kepler
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Patent number: 12634488Abstract: A system includes a tunable neural network-based video encoder configured to receive a video sequence including multiple video frames, generate a frame-specific embedding of a first video frame of the multiple video frames, and identify one or more group-of-pictures (GOP) features of a subset of the multiple video frames, the subset of the including the first video frame. The tunable neural network-based video encoder is further configured to combine the frame-specific embedding of the first video frame and the one or more GOP features of the first plurality of the plurality of video frames to provide a latent feature corresponding to a compressed version of the first video frame.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2024Date of Patent: May 19, 2026Assignees: Disney Enterprises, Inc., ETH ZÜRICH (EIDGENÖSSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZÜRICH)Inventors: Roberto Gerson de Albuquerque Azevedo, Christopher Richard Schroers, Scott Labrozzi, Jens Eirik Saethre, Yuanyì Xue
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Patent number: 12632226Abstract: A system includes a hardware processor and a memory storing software code. The hardware processor is configured to execute the software code to receive operational data including multiple timestamps each corresponding to an operating state of an apparatus, receive, from a system user, a query identifying at least one of an apparatus event or one of the timestamps, and obtain, based on the operational data and in response to the query, a software design model of the apparatus. The hardware processor is further configured to execute the software code to identify, using the operational data and the software design model, an operational status of the apparatus at the identified at least one of the apparatus event or timestamp, generate, based on the software design model, a visual representation of that operational status, and provide an output data including the visual representation to the system user.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2024Date of Patent: May 19, 2026Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Carlton M. Rutter, Kristin Athans, Cynthia A. Marinaro, Pedro L. Lima
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Patent number: 12633290Abstract: A system includes a computing platform including processing hardware and a system memory storing software code. The processing hardware executes the software code to receive a transcript of speech by a user, generate a phoneme stream corresponding to the transcript, partition the phoneme stream into words, and aggregate subsets of the words to form candidate sentences. The software code is further executed to determine, using one or both of an entity identified in the transcript and a history of the user, one or both of a user intent and a context of the speech by the user, rank the candidate sentences and the transcript based on one or both of the user intent and the context of the speech by the user, and identify, based on the ranking, one of the candidate sentences or the transcript as the best transcription of the speech by the user.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2022Date of Patent: May 19, 2026Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Sanchita Tiwari, Xiuyang Yu, Justin Ali Kennedy, Dirk Van Dall
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Patent number: 12625902Abstract: Embodiments provide for improved machine learning. A request for supplemental content to be provided in association with a media content item is received, and a set of candidate supplemental content items for the request is determined. A user embedding corresponding to a user embedding corresponding to a user associated with the media content item, a media embedding corresponding to the media content item, and a set of supplemental content embeddings corresponding to the set of candidate supplemental content items are accessed from one or more storage repositories. A set of interaction scores is generated based on processing the user embedding, the media embedding, and the set of supplemental content embeddings using an interaction machine learning model. A first supplemental content item of the set of candidate supplemental content items is selected for the request based on the set of interaction scores.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2025Date of Patent: May 12, 2026Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Yupeng Gao, Pengfei Gao, Yan Zhang, Zhe Wang, Yasir Hossain, Xingpeng Xiao, Mengzhe Li, Gianluca Milano
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Patent number: 12626434Abstract: Techniques for generating modified images using facial content information are disclosed. First image data comprising first facial content information is received, and a facial content encoder generates a first embedding by extracting the first facial content information from the first image data. Second image data comprising second facial content information and non-facial content information (e.g., style information, pose, facial expression) is received, and a non-facial content encoder generates a second embedding comprising the non-facial content information. A decoder generates a modified image using the first embedding and the second embedding, the modified image comprising the first facial content information of the first image data and the non-facial content information of the second image data.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2024Date of Patent: May 12, 2026Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Santiago Iglesias Navarro, Pablo Pernías Pascual de Pobil, Robert B. Moore, David N. Juboor
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Patent number: 12626729Abstract: Systems and Methods for Video/Audio Comprehension and Automated Clipping includes providing at least one media clip (MC) within an event for display or listening on a user device including receiving audio or video media data indicative of the event, transcribing the media data into timestamped text, identifying entities within the text, creating text segments having a begin timestamp and end timestamp and having a minimum number of entity mentions in the text segments, clipping from the media data the at least one media clip having a begin timestamp and end timestamp corresponding to the begin timestamp and end timestamp of a corresponding one of the text segments, and providing the at least one media clip to the user device for viewing or listening by a user. Feedback may also be provided to adjust the logic that identifies MCs. MC Alerts may also be sent to users autonomously or based on user-set parameters.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2023Date of Patent: May 12, 2026Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Andrew Hyde, Geoffrey Booth, Ognjen Boras, Jonathan Flanders, Danny Donnell
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Publication number: 20260129254Abstract: In some embodiments, a method determines an instance of content to be delivered to a client device. The content includes segments that are associated with a plurality of profiles. A target metric and a bandwidth distribution are determined. The method determines a plurality of top profile decisions for the plurality of segments where a top profile decision lists a top profile that can be selected for respective segments in the plurality of segments. A performance of the target metric is determined for the plurality of top profile decisions based on the bandwidth distribution. The method selects a top profile decision from the top profile decisions based on the performance of the target metric for the top profile decisions. The top profile decision is used to determine a target quality. The target quality is used to select top profiles for requesting segments in the segments during playback of the content.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2024Publication date: May 7, 2026Applicants: Disney Enterprises, Inc., Beijing YoJaJa Software Technology Development Co., Ltd.Inventors: Lemei Huang, Tongyu Dai, Wenhao Zhang, Si Chen, Thomas Howe
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Patent number: 12621502Abstract: A system processing hardware executes a machine learning (ML) model-based video compression encoder to receive uncompressed video content and corresponding motion compensated video content, compare the uncompressed and motion compensated video content to identify an image space residual, transform the image space residual to a latent space representation of the uncompressed video content, and transform, using a trained image compression ML model, the motion compensated video content to a latent space representation of the motion compensated video content.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2024Date of Patent: May 5, 2026Assignees: Disney Enterprises, Inc., ETH Zürich (EIDGENÖSSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZÜRICH)Inventors: Abdelaziz Djelouah, Leonhard Markus Helminger, Roberto Gerson de Albuquerque Azevedo, Scott Labrozzi, Christopher Richard Schroers, Yuanyi Xue
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Patent number: 12621506Abstract: In some embodiments, a method analyzes flagged locations from a plurality of locations in an encoding of a video to form a cluster of locations. Draft micro-chunk boundaries for the cluster are determined based on searching for a first start location and a first end location in the encoding. The method searches in a first search range before the first start location and a second search range after the first end location for a second start location in the first search range and a second end location in the second search range. The second start location and the second end location form a micro-chunk. An encoding parameter set is determined for the micro-chunk formed by the second start location and the second end location based on content characteristics of the micro-chunk. The method uses the encoding parameter set to encode the micro-chunk for insertion in the encoding of the video.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2023Date of Patent: May 5, 2026Assignees: Disney Enterprises, Inc., Beijing YoJaJa Software Technology Development Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuanyi Xue, Roberto Gerson De Albuquerque Azevedo, Christopher Richard Schroers, Scott Labrozzi, Wenhao Zhang
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Patent number: 12619962Abstract: Systems and methods to transfer a digital asset to a digital wallet from a temporary wallet are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: establish a temporary wallet; effectuate a smart contract that causes the temporary wallet to hold a digital asset; generate a machine-readable medium that represent the temporary wallet; cause an output device to output the machine-readable medium on a physical article; upon a user device scanning the machine-readable medium, the user may be enabled to establish digital wallets or access digital wallets such that the digital asset is transferred from the temporary wallet to the digital wallet.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2023Date of Patent: May 5, 2026Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventor: Jokton Mishael Strealy
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Patent number: 12614090Abstract: In various embodiments, a character engine models a character that interacts with users The modeling techniques include evaluating user input data that is associated with a user device to identify a user intent and an assessment domain, selecting a first set of inference algorithms from a plurality of inference algorithms based, at least in part, on the user intent and the assessment domain, and applying the user intent and the assessment domain to the first set of inference algorithms to generate a plurality of inferences.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2022Date of Patent: April 28, 2026Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Michael Abrams, Eric Haseltine
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Patent number: 12615258Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 21, 2024Date of Patent: April 28, 2026Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Rebecca Bever, Sarah Y. Moon, Erika Varis Doggett, Bethany Harvey Frauenberger, Eric J. Avila
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Patent number: 12615403Abstract: A system includes a processor and memory storing software code. The processor executes the software code to receive first user data identifying a user and a media content in a first media format accessed by the user, receive second user data suspending access to the media content in the first media format by the user and identifying a first location in the first media format where the access is suspended, and store the first location in a usage history of the user. The software code further receives third user data identifying the user and the media content in a second media format, determines, using the first location and media content metadata cross-referencing the first media format and the second media format, a second location in the second media format corresponding to the first location, and initiates access to the media content in the second media format at the second location.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2024Date of Patent: April 28, 2026Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventor: Alan Wong
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Publication number: 20260109316Abstract: A restraint verification platform may obtain video data video data of a passenger in a passenger seat. The restraint verification platform may analyze the video data using one or more machine learning models trained to detect passengers in passenger seats and passenger restraints of the passenger seats. The restraint verification platform may detect, using the one or more machine learning models and based on analyzing the video data, the passenger in the passenger seat and a passenger restraint of the passenger seat. The restraint verification platform may determine, based on analyzing the video data, that the passenger restraint is not properly securing the passenger. The restraint verification platform may perform an action based on determining that the passenger restraint is not properly securing the passenger.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2025Publication date: April 23, 2026Applicant: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Bryant D. BOYLE, Gary D. MARKOWITZ, Clifford Aron WILKINSON, Ching-Chien CHEN, Gregory Brooks HALE, Jeremy EATON
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Publication number: 20260111496Abstract: A method of generating multimodal search results comprising: identifying at least one result asset in a first vector space based on a similarity to a search vector, the at least one result asset having a corresponding representation in a second vector space; identifying at least one second result asset in the second vector space based on a similarity to the representation of the result asset in the second vector space; aggregating the at least one result asset and the at least one second result asset; and providing the at least one result asset and the at least one second result asset to a user as search results.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2025Publication date: April 23, 2026Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Matthew LATHROP, Erika Varis DOGGETT
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Patent number: 12608421Abstract: A method includes connecting, using an application executing at an extended reality (XR) device, to a file system of rich media assets, where the file system is hosted at a server in communication with the XR device. The method further includes browsing, via the application at the XR device, the file system of rich media assets to select a rich media asset of the rich media assets and responsive to selection of the rich media asset, loading the rich media asset form the server to a memory of the XR device. The method further includes rendering, at a runtime of the application, content from the rich media asset, where the rendering allows the content to be viewed using the XR device.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2023Date of Patent: April 21, 2026Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Michael Becker, Nicholas Maggio, Mark R. Mine
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Patent number: 12606292Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for an airframe of a volitant body are presented herein. An apparatus may include a body having a normal axis. The body comprising a central air passage communicating through the body along the normal axis of the body. The central air passage may have an inlet at a first end of the body and an outlet at a second end of the body, the second end being opposite the first end. The central air passage may form an interior surface of the body. The central air passage permitting a flow of air through the body via the central air passage. The inlet may be formed to produce a Venturi effect in the flow of air passing through the central air passage from the inlet to the outlet by choking the flow of air at the inlet.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2024Date of Patent: April 21, 2026Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Clifford W. Wong, Michael P. Goslin, Stephen A. Thornton
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Patent number: 12609044Abstract: A system for creating accessibility enhanced content includes a computing platform having processing hardware and a system memory storing a software code and a machine learning (ML) model, the software code providing a graphical user interface (GUI). The processing hardware executes the software code to identify a user of the system, obtain a user profile of the user, obtain, from one or more application(s) utilized by the user, activity data relating to use of the application(s) by the user, and modify, using the user profile and the activity data, one or more node weights of the ML model to provide a tuned ML model. The processing hardware further executes the software code to infer, using the tuned ML model, at least one action for advancing a development of the user and output to the user, using the UI, a recommendation for performing the at least one action by the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 21, 2026Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Anna T. Wolfe, Alexandra Hernandez, Anthony M. Accardo, Shelly Henling
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Patent number: 12604065Abstract: There is provided a system including a display, a wireless communication element, a non-transitory memory storing an executable code, and a hardware processor executing the executable code to receive an input signal including a media content and a data content associated with the media content, extract the data content from the input signal, display the media content on the display, and transmit the data content of the input signal to a user device using the wireless communication element.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2016Date of Patent: April 14, 2026Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Skarphedinn Hedinsson, Michael P. Goslin
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Publication number: 20260099902Abstract: Methods, systems, and machine learning models for denoising deep images are disclosed. Deep image renders can be generated using Monte Carlo rendering methods such as path tracing. Unfortunately, such renders may have visual noise. A machine learning model according to embodiments can be trained to denoise deep images, and can comprise an embedding sub-model and a denoising sub-model. A computer system can use the embedding sub-model to generate a deep image embedding based on a noisy deep image input using novel local attention mechanisms. The computer system can use the denoising sub-model to denoise the noisy deep image using the deep image embedding. In some embodiments, the computer system can use the denoising sub-model to generate denoised deep images at multiple levels (or “scales”) and combine the denoised deep images to produce an output denoised deep image.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2024Publication date: April 9, 2026Applicants: Disney Enterprises, Inc., ETH Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)Inventors: Marios PAPAS, Gerhard RÖTHLIN, Tunç Ozan AYDIN, Xianyao ZHANG, Farnood SALEHI, Shilin ZHU
