Disney Patents
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Patent number: 12141945Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for training and applying a denoising model. The denoising model includes multiple specialized denoisers and a generalizer, each of which is a machine learning model. The specialized denoisers are trained to denoise images associated with specific ranges of noise parameters. The generalizer is trained to generate per-pixel denoising kernels for denoising images associated with arbitrary noise parameters using outputs of the specialized denoisers. Subsequent to training, a noisy image, such as a live-action image or a rendered image, can be denoised by inputting the noisy image into the specialized denoisers to obtain intermediate denoised images that are then input, along with the noisy image, into the generalizer to obtain per-pixel denoising kernels, which can be normalized and applied to denoise the noisy image.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignees: Disney Enterprises, INC., ETH Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)Inventors: Zhilin Cai, Tunc Ozan Aydin, Marco Manzi, Ahmet Cengiz Oztireli
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Patent number: 12141791Abstract: Systems and methods to adjust a unit of experience based on digital assets of users are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage first user information of a first user; receive an authentication request from the first user; determine whether the authentication information input is valid by comparing the authentication information input and first authentication information included in the first user information; determine, responsive to determination that the authentication information input is valid, a set of one or more digital assets that are associated with a first address included in a first digital wallet of the first user based on one or more transactions including the first address and the one or more digital assets of the set; determine a set of one or more entities correlated to the set of the one or more digital assets; determine and effectuate adjustments to the first unit of experience based on the correlated entities.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Alif Khalfan, Benjamin Lopez Barba, Zachary Shalett, Brianna Cochran
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Patent number: 12142042Abstract: A system for assessing performer density includes a computing platform having processing hardware and a memory storing software code. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to receive content and content data, the content data identifying one or more performer(s) depicted or referenced in the content, and determine, using the content and the content data, one or more segment(s) of the content in which the performer(s) is/are depicted or referenced. The processing hardware is further configured to execute the software code to infer, for each determined segment(s) of the content, a respective importance of the performer(s) in a respective context of each determined segment(s), and calculate, based on the determined segment(s) of the content and the respective importance of the performer(s), a respective density score of each performer with respect to the content.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Mara Idai Lucien, Lori L. Huck, Anthony M. Accardo
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Patent number: 12143443Abstract: Embodiments herein describe a CDN where anycast routing is used to identify a load balancer for selecting a cache in the CDN to use to deliver a requested object to a user. In one embodiment, the user performs a DNS lookup to identify an anycast IP address for a plurality of load balancers in the CDN. The user can then initiate anycast routing using the anycast IP address to automatically identify a load balancer. Once the identified balancer selects the cache, the load balancer can close the anycast connection with the user device and use a redirect to provide the user device with a unicast path to the selected cache. The user device can then establish a unicast connection with the cache to retrieve (e.g., stream) the object.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Eric C. Friedrich, Robert G. Colantuoni
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Publication number: 20240362896Abstract: In some embodiments, a method sends information for a sample of content, a first question, and a second question for output on an interface. The first question receives, from a subject, a first response for a sample level rating for an artifact that is perceived to be visible in the sample and the second question receives, from the subject, a second response for regions in the sample that are perceived to contain the artifact. The method receives the first response for the sample level rating and the second response for regions that are perceived to contain the artifact. First responses are combined from multiple subjects to generate an opinion score for the sample and second responses are combined to generate region scores for regions. The method generates training data from the opinion score and the region scores to train a process to perform an action based on the artifacts.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2024Publication date: October 31, 2024Applicants: Disney Enterprises, Inc., Beijing Hulu Software Technology Development Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuanyi XUE, Scott LABROZZI, Wenhao ZHANG, Christopher Richard SCHROERS, Roberto Gerson DE ALBUQUERQUE AZEVEDO, Xuchang HUANGFU, Lemei HUANG, Yang ZHANG
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Patent number: 12131652Abstract: A control system, and associated control method, that processes aircraft tracking data to determine precise location information for aircraft in the vicinity of an outdoor show that includes laser projectors. The aircraft location information for each aircraft is processed along with heading and speed data to generate a set of laser control data, which is communicated via a monitoring interface to a laser projector operator for use in operating the laser projector. The control system determines the scan field into which the laser projector may project its light during the show, and this scan field is provided, e.g., visually in the monitoring interface, to the laser projector operator along with the sets of laser control data for each aircraft. The laser projector operator may then terminate or continue to operate the laser projector based on this very precise information related to the scan field and location of aircraft.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2022Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Jesse Milluzzi, Douglas Dixon, Lori D. LaFrance, Amber Lynn Girard
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Patent number: 12131405Abstract: A system includes an augmented reality (AR) device having a first display, processing hardware, and a memory storing software code. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to monitor media content including a sequence of moving images displayed on a second display separate from the AR device and controlled by a media player device, detect, based on monitoring the media content, an image in the sequence of moving images for enhancement by one or more AR effects. The processing hardware further executes the software code to render the one or more AR effects on the first display, and transmit, contemporaneously with rendering the one or more AR effects on the first display, a signal configured to pause or loop the playing of the media content on the second display.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2022Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Evan M. Goldberg, Alexandra Christiansen, Jackson Aaron Rogow, James Voris, Alice Jane Taylor
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Publication number: 20240354785Abstract: In some embodiments, a method receives a first instance of the item. Also, information for changes in a metric is received that is based on a delayed release time of a feature for second instances of the item after the second instances of the item were released. The method selects a second instance of the item from the second instances of the item based on a relationship to the first instance of the item. A second change in the metric is estimated for the first instance of the item based on a first change in the metric from the second instance of the item that is selected. Then, the method generates a ranking score for the feature if the feature is released for the first instance of the item based on the second change in the metric.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2023Publication date: October 24, 2024Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Fabian Gallusser, Huancen Liu, Everett Sussman, Dwight Liu
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Patent number: 12125219Abstract: A system for performing synergistic object tracking and pattern recognition for event representation includes a computing platform having processing hardware and a system memory storing a software code. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to receive event data corresponding to one or more propertie(s) of an object, to generate, using the event data, a location data estimating a location of each of multiple predetermined landmarks of the object, and to predict, using one or both of the event data and the location data, a pattern corresponding to the propertie(s) of the object. The processing hardware is further configured to execute the software code to update, using the predicted pattern, the location data, and to merge the updated location data and the predicted pattern to provide merged data.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2023Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Keith Comito, Kevin Prince
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Patent number: 12124159Abstract: A special effects system designed to provide a projection surface or screen that can be animated or dynamically altered in its shape and/or size over time while video content is being concurrently projected from a video projector onto the altering projection surface. The video content and projection surface alterations are synchronized in time, e.g., on a pixel basis or other level of precision in some cases, such that the size and/or shape of the projected imagery, e.g., of a character, an animated object, and/or the like, matches that of the size and shape or outline of the present state of the dynamically alterable projection surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2023Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventor: Thomas Tracey Tait
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Patent number: 12124996Abstract: A system includes processing hardware, and a memory storing software code including a hierarchical user interface (UI). The processing hardware executes the software code to receive from a first user, via the hierarchical UI, project data describing a project, and a project task for completion by a second user, and to generate, using the project data, a node-based graph of the project including the project task. The processing hardware further executes the software code to receive, via the hierarchical UI in response to performance of at least a portion of the project task by the second user, a task progression or task completion data, update, using the task progression or task completion data, the node-based graph, and display to the first user, via the hierarchical UI, the updated node-based graph and the task progression data or task completion data.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Rebecca Bever, Julianne Hope Groves, Jo Lockman, Mara Idai Lucien, Erika Varis Doggett
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Patent number: 12126516Abstract: Various embodiments set forth systems and techniques for identifying issues associated with a domain name system (DNS) ecosystem. The techniques include receiving a first target domain name; identifying a plurality of DNS elements included in the DNS ecosystem that should be tested based on the first target domain name; performing one or more validation operations on the plurality of DNS elements based on the first target domain name to generate a first set of validation results; and identifying a first DNS issue associated with the first target domain name based on the first set of validation results.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Robert K. Floyd, III, Esther M. Betancourt, Jeffrey Sol Mansukhani, James Reed Philpott, Daniel Eric Ouellette, Sankara Subramanyam
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Patent number: 12126879Abstract: A system includes a computing platform having processing hardware, and a memory storing software code. The software code is executed to receive content having a sequence of content segments, and marker data identifying a location within the sequence, identify, using the content and the marker data, segment boundaries of a content segment containing the location, determine, using the location and the segment boundaries, whether the location is situated within a predetermined interval of one of the segment boundaries, and re-encode a subsection of the sequence to produce a new segment boundary at the location. When the location is not situated within the predetermined interval, the subsection of the sequence includes the content segment containing the location. When the location is situated within the predetermined interval, the subsection of the sequence includes the content segment containing the location and a content segment adjoining the content segment containing the location.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Scott Labrozzi, William B. May, Jr.
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Patent number: 12124553Abstract: A system for performing authentication of content based on intrinsic attributes includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a content authentication software code. The hardware processor executes the content authentication software code to receive a content file including digital content and authentication data created based on a baseline version of the digital content, to generate validation data based on the digital content, to compare the validation data to the authentication data, and to identify the digital content as baseline digital content in response to determining that the validation data matches the authentication data based on the comparison. The hardware processor is also configured to execute the content authentication software code to identify the digital content as manipulated digital content in response to determining that the validation data does not match the authentication data based on the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2020Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Mark Arana, Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Edward C. Drake, Anthony M. Accardo
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Patent number: 12120014Abstract: One embodiment of a method for migrating a multi-region network including multiple autonomous systems into a single autonomous system comprises allocating a unique identifier to each autonomous system of a plurality of autonomous systems, wherein each autonomous system includes a corresponding regional route reflector; tagging the routing instruction advertised to a global route reflector by a regional route reflector included in one of the plurality of autonomous systems with the unique identifier of the autonomous system corresponding to the regional route reflector that advertised the routing instruction; instructing the regional route reflectors included in the plurality of autonomous systems to ignore routing instructions received from the global route reflector that are tagged with one of the unique identifiers allocated to the plurality of autonomous systems; and migrating one autonomous system of the plurality of autonomous systems by: removing the unique identifier from routing instructions advertiseType: GrantFiled: August 24, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Andrew W. Mason, Thomas Gregory Dowers, Mark G. Cloud
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Patent number: 12120367Abstract: A system includes a computing platform having processing hardware and a memory storing software code, a workstation database, and a station database. When executed, the software code receives workflow data describing a workflow for a station, obtains from the station database, using the workflow data, a configuration data for execution of the workflow by the station, and identifies, using the configuration data, multiple application programming interfaces (APIs). The software code further identifies, using the workstation database, a workstation for use by the station to execute the workflow, configures, using the configuration data, the workstation for execution of the workflow, and translates, during execution of the workflow, communications among the station and the multiple APIs into a common communication protocol.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2021Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventor: Chyloe F. Lucca
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Patent number: 12118436Abstract: A system includes a computing platform including a hardware processor and a system memory storing a software code. The hardware processor is configured to execute the software code to track interactions with a user application during use of the user application, generate, based on tracking the interactions, interaction data identifying multiple interaction events during the use, and perform a validity assessment of the interaction data. The hardware processor is further configured to execute the software code to identify, based on the validity assessment, one or more anomalies in the interaction data, and output, based on identifying the one or more anomalies in the interaction data, one or more of the interaction events corresponding respectively to the one or more anomalies.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Dustin Stefan Hamerla, Abrasham Chowdhury, Christopher Adam Boyle, Joseph H. I. Bird, Melissa Ashley Moyer, Kyle Patrick Baker, Taylor C. Wells, Vaibhav Jajoo
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Patent number: 12118734Abstract: Some implementations of the disclosure are directed to capturing facial training data for one or more subjects, the captured facial training data including each of the one or more subject's facial skin geometry tracked over a plurality of times and the subject's corresponding jaw poses for each of those plurality of times; and using the captured facial training data to create a model that provides a mapping from skin motion to jaw motion. Additional implementations of the disclosure are directed to determining a facial skin geometry of a subject; using a model that provides a mapping from skin motion to jaw motion to predict a motion of the subject's jaw from a rest pose given the facial skin geometry; and determining a jaw pose of the subject using the predicted motion of the subject's jaw.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2022Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignees: Disney Enterprises, Inc., ETH Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)Inventors: Dominik Thabo Beeler, Derek Edward Bradley, Gaspard Zoss
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Patent number: 12115449Abstract: A playset comprises a plurality of hotspots positioned within a plurality of scenes. A switching mechanism is configured to selectively couple to the each of the plurality of hotspots and is communicatively coupled with a controller. The controller is configured to establish communication with a first object using a first hotspot and determine an object type of the first object and a location of the first object within the playset. The location of the first object corresponds to a scene that contains the first hotspot. The controller is further configured to select an interactive media based on the object type and the location of the first object, select a first media file based on the selected interactive media, and instruct the first media file to be output on an output device.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2021Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Jason A. Yeung, Nathan D. Nocon, Michael P. Goslin, Janice K Rosenthal, Hunter J. Gibson, Clifford Wong, Elliott H. Baumbach
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Patent number: 12120359Abstract: 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: March 25, 2022Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignees: 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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Publication number: 20240338500Abstract: In some embodiments, a method receives a first value for a feature. The first value is associated with an entity. A cohort is determined for the entity where a cohort is associated with a dimension, and the entity is associated with a dimension value for the dimension. The method determines a normalization value for the cohort based on the dimension value for the entity. The normalization value is generated based on second values at the dimension value for the feature, and the second values are associated with entities in the cohort. A cohort-agnostic feature value is generated based on the first value and the normalization value. The cohort-agnostic feature value is input into a model to generate a prediction for the entity.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2023Publication date: October 10, 2024Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventor: Fabian Gallusser
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Patent number: 12111880Abstract: Various embodiments set forth systems and techniques for changing a face within an image. The techniques include receiving a first image including a face associated with a first facial identity; generating, via a machine learning model, at least a first texture map and a first position map based on the first image; rendering a second image including a face associated with a second facial identity based on the first texture map and the first position map, wherein the second facial identity is different from the first facial identity.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignees: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC., ETH Zurich (Eidgenssische Technische Hochschule Zurich)Inventors: Jacek Krzysztof Naruniec, Derek Edward Bradley, Paulo Fabiano Urnau Gotardo, Leonhard Markus Helminger, Christopher Andreas Otto, Christopher Richard Schroers, Romann Matthew Weber
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Patent number: 12109504Abstract: An entertainment system for a vehicle is disclosed. In one embodiment, the entertainment system includes an at least partially enclosed structure configured to receive an on-road vehicle, where the structure defines a path along which the on-road vehicle is configured to move autonomously; a content output system configured to generate content based on one or more characteristics of the on-road vehicle; and a guide system configured to guide the on-road vehicle along the path.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2022Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Deuel, Steven M. Chapman, Joseph Mohos
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Patent number: 12096093Abstract: A system includes a hardware processor and a memory storing software code and one or more machine learning (ML) model(s) trained to transform content. The hardware processor executes the software code to ingest content components each corresponding respectively to a different feature of multiple features included in a content file, receive sensor data describing at least one of an action or an environment of a system user, and identify, using the sensor data, at least one of the content components as content to be transformed. The hardware processor further executes the software code to transform, using the ML model(s), that identified content to provide at least one transformed content component, combine a subset of the ingested content components with the at least one transformed content component to produce a dynamically transformed content, and output the dynamically transformed content in real-time with respect to ingesting the content components.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2023Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Keith Comito, Daniel Cahall
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Patent number: 12094376Abstract: A method to project content from a moving projector. The method includes analyzing an object to identify a projection surface; determining a first position of a projector relative to the projection surface; modifying a first frame of a content for projection onto the projection surface based on the projection surface and the first position of the projector; projecting the first frame of the content from the projector onto the projection surface; determining a second position of the projector relative to the projection surface; modifying a second frame of the content based on the projection surface and the second position; and projecting the second frame of the content from the projector onto the projection surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2023Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Joseph M. Popp, Steven M. Chapman, Charles P. Davis, Jeremie A. Papon, Alice J. Taylor
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Publication number: 20240305801Abstract: In some embodiments, a system includes a first component to extract temporal features from a current frame being coded and a previous frame of a video. A second component uses a first transformer to fuse spatial features from the current frame with the temporal features to generate spatio-temporal features as first output. A third component uses a second transformer to perform entropy coding using the first output and at least a portion of the temporal features to generate a second output. A fourth component uses a third transformer to reconstruct the current frame based on the first output that is processed using the second output and the temporal features.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2023Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicants: Disney Enterprises, Inc., ETH Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)Inventors: Zhenghao Chen, Roberto Gerson De Albuquerque Azevedo, Christopher Richard Schroers, Yang Zhang, Lucas Relic
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Publication number: 20240305842Abstract: In some embodiments, a method generates a first representation of a first relationship between bitrate and quality based on first features of a first portion of a video. Also, the method generates a second representation of a second relationship between bitrate and quality based on second features of a second portion of a video. The first representation is analyzed to determine a first list of bitrates for the first portion of video and the second representation is analyzed to determine a second list of bitrates for the second portion of video. The first list of bitrates is different from the second list of bitrates. The method outputs the first list of bitrates for use encoding the first portion of video and the second list of bitrates for use encoding the second portion of video.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2023Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicants: Beijing Hulu Software Technology Development Co., Ltd., Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Chen Liu, Wenhao Zhang, Scott Labrozzi, Yuanyi XUE, Xuchang Huangfu, Xiaobo Liu
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Patent number: 12086136Abstract: A database engine uses bitmap slice indices (BSIs) to combine result bitmaps derived from parent and child tables related via one or more foreign key relationships. To execute a query that involves a parent table and a child table, the database engine parses the query into a parent predicate corresponding to the parent table and a child predicate corresponding to the child table. The database engine executes the parent predicate using a parent bitmap index to generate a parent result bitmap and executes the child predicate using a child bitmap index to generate a child result bitmap. The database engine transforms the child result bitmap, based on the BSI, to generate a transformed child result bitmap having columns that correspond to the primary key of the parent table. The database engine can then combine the parent result bitmap directly with the transformed child result bitmap to generate query results.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventor: Guy Molinari
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Patent number: 12087024Abstract: According to one implementation, an image compression system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a software code. The hardware processor executes the software code to receive an input image, transform the input image to a latent space representation of the input image, and quantize the latent space representation of the input image to produce multiple quantized latents. The hardware processor further executes the software code to encode the quantized latents using a probability density function of the latent space representation of the input image, to generate a bitstream, and convert the bitstream into an output image corresponding to the input image. The probability density function of the latent space representation of the input image is obtained based on a normalizing flow mapping of one of the input image or the latent space representation of the input image.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignees: Disney Enterprises, Inc., ETH ZurichInventors: Abdelaziz Djelouah, Leonhard Markus Helminger, Scott Labrozzi, Yuanyi Xue, Erika Varis Doggett, Jared McPhillen, Christopher Richard Schroers
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Patent number: 12086927Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for performing appearance capture. The technique includes receiving a first sequence of images of an object, wherein the first sequence of images includes a first set of images interleaved with a second set of images, and wherein the first set of images is captured based on illumination of the object using a first lighting pattern and the second set of images is captured based on illumination of the object using one or more lighting patterns that are different from the first lighting pattern. The technique also includes generating a first set of appearance parameters associated with the object based on a first inverse rendering associated with the first sequence of images.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2021Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Paulo Fabiano Urnau Gotardo, Derek Edward Bradley, Jérémy Riviere
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Publication number: 20240296028Abstract: In some embodiments, a method receives a change to data stored in a repository. An artifact that is generated based on the change to the data failed a validation. The method analyzes the change to the data via a model to generate a set of adjustments. The model is trained to output adjustments for the artifact to generate a set of adjusted artifacts. The method determines an adjusted artifact that is associated with an adjustment in the set of adjustments that passes the validation. The adjusted artifact is output as a validated artifact.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2023Publication date: September 5, 2024Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Jason Alexander Cox, Steven William Wagner, Kyle Everett Lanier, James H. Tatum
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Patent number: 12081895Abstract: Systems and methods for compositing real-world video with a virtual object are disclosed. In one embodiment the system includes a processor; and a computer-readable non-transitory storage medium, the medium encoded with instructions that when executed cause the processor to perform operations including receiving video of a video capture region from a camera coupled to an unmanned vehicle; obtaining a map representation of the video capture region; placing the virtual object into the map representation; rendering the video with the virtual object to generate a rendered video; displaying the rendered video; and based on an elevation of the unmanned vehicle, updating the virtual object to transition between a top view of the virtual object and an elevation view or perspective view of the virtual object.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Steven M. Chapman, Mehul Patel, Joseph Popp
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Publication number: 20240292059Abstract: In some embodiments, a method receives data for sessions that is generated based on use of a service. The data for a session includes session characteristic values for a set of session characteristics that is associated with the session. The method classifies the sessions into a plurality of session types to generate feature values for the plurality of session types. The session characteristic values for the session are compared to a set of reference characteristics for respective session types in the plurality of sessions to perform the classifying. The feature values are analyzed for the plurality of session types using a model to generate a prediction for the service and the is outputted prediction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2023Publication date: August 29, 2024Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventor: Fabian Gallusser
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Patent number: 12069117Abstract: A system for transferring a playback of media content from a first network-connected playback device to a second network-connected playback device is disclosed. The system includes a processor; a computer-readable non-transitory storage media with instructions that cause the processor to perform operations including: receiving, at a media navigation device, a request to transfer a playback marker of the media content from the first playback device to the second playback device; responsive to receiving the request, stopping a playback of the media content on the first playback device, wherein the playback marker indicates a stop timecode within a timeline associated with the media content at which the playback of the media content is stopped on the first playback device; responsive to the media navigation device being within a predetermined distance to the second playback device, automatically resuming playback of the media content on the second playback device at the stop timecode.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventor: Evan Schneider
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Publication number: 20240268348Abstract: In some implementations, a controller may obtain global positioning system (GPS) data from a GPS unit of an enrichment device. The controller may determine habitat information identifying a habitat for animals, of a plurality of habitats of animals, using the GPS data. The controller may determine a geofence of the habitat for animals based on the habitat information. The controller may determine a movement profile associated with the habitat for animals using the habitat information. The movement profile identifies one or more motions of the enrichment device. The controller may cause the enrichment device to move, within a boundary of the geofence, in accordance with the one or more motions of the movement profile. The enrichment device may move in accordance with the one or more motions to stimulate movement of one or more animals of the habitat for animals. The controller may monitor the movement and/or animal interaction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2023Publication date: August 15, 2024Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Andrew J. MILLUZZI, Angela MILLER, Sylvester KWO, Kathryn SKOBRAK, Patrick M. POTTS, Jose DOMINGUEZ, Cecelia DAHLINGER, Emma LEE, Michael BREEN, Andrew ALBA
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Patent number: 12062152Abstract: According to one implementation, a system for performing re-noising and neural network (NN) based image enhancement includes a computing platform having a processing hardware and a system memory storing a software code, a noise synthesizer, and an image restoration NN. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to receive a denoised image component and a noise component extracted from a degraded image, to generate, using the noise synthesizer and the noise component, synthesized noise corresponding to the noise component, and to interpolate, using the noise component and the synthesized noise, an output image noise. The processing hardware is further configured to execute the software code to enhance, using the image restoration NN, the denoised image component to provide an output image component, and to re-noise the output image component, using the output image noise, to produce an enhanced output image corresponding to the degraded image.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2021Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Abdelaziz Djelouah, Shinobu Hattori, Christopher Richard Schroers
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Patent number: 12062870Abstract: A conductor connector guard adapted for enclosing or housing one-to-many junctions between separable connectors. The guard is configured to house separable connectors for 3-channel, 5-channel, or 7-channel power distribution, with some of the embodiments presented being configured to house five pairs of separable connectors, with the connectors taking the form of single-pole conductor connectors in some cases. The guard is designed to comply with safety requirements for power distribution junctions that may be positioned within a public space. The guard is configured to provide a compact solution when contrasted with prior configurations involving physical barriers around power distribution junctions or involving physical objects such as trash cannisters and planters being placed over junctions. The guard is also adapted to provide enhanced public safety for spliced or joined conductors and to sequester energy sources in public spaces such as with a lock and tag out-type device.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2022Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Ken W. Wagner, Scott Carlton Peterson, Chris M. Dodge
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Publication number: 20240267534Abstract: A method receives a video. The method analyzes information for a pixel of a frame in the video to determine a first value and a second value for the pixel. The first value is based on an image structure formed by the pixel in the frame and the second value is based on interframe motion of the image structure at the pixel. A third value is determined for an amount of judder based on the first value and the second value. The method outputs the third value to evaluate the video.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2024Publication date: August 8, 2024Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Richard Schroers, Blake Sloan, Mitchel Jacobs, Scott Labrozzi, Shinobu Hattori, Felix Klose
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Publication number: 20240259646Abstract: In some embodiments, a method identifies a target item. A first score for a bridge item is generated using a first input where the first input is based on a characteristic of an entity. A second score for the target item is generated using a second input. The second input is based on the characteristic of the entity and the bridge item. The method determines whether to output the bridge item to the entity based on the first score and the second score.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2023Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Fabian Gallusser, Lian Jian
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Patent number: 12049942Abstract: A curling effect is provided via a system, which may be included in an article, via a plurality of links, including distal, proximal, and intermediary links, that each comprise: a base; first and second wings, connected to opposite sides of the base such that each of first and second through-holes are aligned at a first height; and a header, connected between the wings that defines a third through-hole at the first height and a fourth through-hole at a second height different from the first height that is configured to accept a stringer there-through so that a force applied on the stringer in a direction from the distal link towards the proximal link causes rotation of neighboring links relative to one another; the neighboring links being joined via a linking axel disposed on a shared axis through the first, second, and third through-holes of the neighboring links.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2020Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventor: Clifford Wong
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Patent number: 12051239Abstract: Tracking an item of interest through an environment is described. Tracking the item of interest through the environment is accomplished using passive optical tracking where an item is identified in an image of the environment using image processing and various locations of the item are tracked through the environment. When a user wants to know an item's location, a location image is projected onto the location of the item to allow a user view a current location of the item.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2020Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Evan M. Goldberg, Mark R. Mine, Matthew Deuel, Daniel L. Baker, Dane M. Coffey, Steven M. Chapman
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Patent number: 12047378Abstract: 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: October 1, 2021Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Rebecca Bever, Sarah Y. Moon, Erika Varis Doggett, Bethany Harvey Frauenberger, Eric J. Avila
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Patent number: 12042719Abstract: Embodiments relate to gameplay using mobile devices. Embodiments include receiving, by a first device, player input initiating a targeted action. Embodiments include determining, by the first device, an orientation of the first device. Embodiments include determining, by the first device, a location of at least a second device based at least on a message received from the second device. Embodiments include identifying, by the first device, that a target of the targeted action is associated with the second device based on the orientation of the first device and the location of the second device. Embodiments include transmitting, by the first device, an indication of the targeted action to the second device.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2020Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Nathan D. Nocon, R. Hunter Gough
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Patent number: 12041289Abstract: According to one implementation, a method of guiding an interaction between a companion module and a user includes identifying a media content for playout by a media player device, transmitting, to a remote server, an interaction schema request identifying the media content and the companion module, and receiving, from the remote server, behavioral manifest data including an instruction for guiding the interaction between the companion module and the user. Such a method also includes obtaining a play head state of the media player device and a playout timecode state of the media content, and identifying a user interaction behavior for the companion module based on the behavioral manifest data, the play head state of the media player device, and the playout timecode state of the media content.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2023Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Keith Comito, Dirk Van Dall, James Bowers, Anthony Waters, Thomas Engel
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Publication number: 20240207748Abstract: An interaction system may receive trigger information associated with a facilitator device of a facilitator at a venue. The trigger information may be transmitted based on the facilitator operating the facilitator device during an interaction between the facilitator and one or more participants. The interaction system may determine, based on receiving the trigger information, that interaction information has been provided to the one or more participants. The interaction system may determine, in response to the trigger information, that the facilitator was located at a particular sensing location. The interaction system may obtain, using sensing location information identifying the particular sensing location, participant device information regarding a participant device located at the particular sensing location during the interaction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2022Publication date: June 27, 2024Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Blake A. FRICKER, Peter STEPNIEWICZ, Thomas F. JOHNSON, Thomas ARTHUR, John K. LEWIS, Steven C. EATON, Octavian PETRESCU, Jackson DUNSTAN, Michael M. GONTERMAN, Sara THACHER
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Publication number: 20240210948Abstract: In some implementations, a ride control simulation system may receive a request to simulate a ride control system controlling a movement of a passenger vehicle on a ride system, wherein the request includes vehicle information regarding the passenger vehicle and ride system information regarding the ride system. The ride control simulation system may execute, based on the request, a computer model to simulate the ride control system controlling the movement of the passenger vehicle on the ride system. Executing the computer model comprises randomly selecting values from one or more data distributions. The computer model is executed using the first value, the second value, and the third value as inputs. The ride control simulation system may cause an adjustment to an operation of the ride system based on a result of executing the computer model.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2022Publication date: June 27, 2024Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Michael TSCHANZ, Jose CORPUZ, Michael S. WELCH
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Patent number: 12019763Abstract: In some implementations, a device may provide a data structure storing first data, wherein the first data indirectly identifies second data, and wherein the second data identifies a particular individual. The device may obtain, from the data structure, the first data. The device may generate a cryptographically random value using a secure generator. The device may combine the first data and the cryptographically random value to generate hashing input data. The device may perform, using a hashing algorithm, a hashing operation on the hashing input data to generate de-identified first data, wherein re-identification of the de-identified first data requires knowledge of at least the first data, the cryptographically random value, and the de-identified first data. The device may perform an action using the de-identified first data.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2021Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Matthew W. Yuchas, Benjamin Israelson, Gregory Clayton, Steven Maltby
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Patent number: 12019811Abstract: This disclosure presents systems and methods to cause an input device to provide movement-based output. Exemplary implementations may: establish a wireless connection between the one or more physical processors and an input device, the input device being configured to provide control signals for controlling a graphical user interface; determine motion control signals for the input device, the motion control signals dictating physical movement of the input device in a real-world environment; effectuate communication of the motion control signals to the input device thereby causing the input device to perform the physical movement in the real-world environment; and/or perform other operations.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2020Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventor: Michael P. Goslin
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Publication number: 20240202388Abstract: In some implementations, a simulation platform may receive a request to perform a simulation of operations of a plurality of components. The simulation platform may receive first fidelity information identifying a first level of detail and functionality to be simulated for a first component of the plurality of components, wherein the first level of detail and functionality is part of a first plurality of levels of details and functionalities to be simulated for the first component. The simulation platform may receive second fidelity information identifying a second level of detail and functionality to be simulated for a second component of the plurality of components, wherein the second level of detail and functionality is part of a second plurality of levels of details and functionalities to be simulated for the second component.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2022Publication date: June 20, 2024Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Patrick J. MCNAULL, Robert J. MARRA, Christopher C. HOFER, Brian F. WALTERS
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Patent number: D1037781Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2021Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventor: Daria Vinogradova
