Patents by Inventor Alex Sorkine-Hornung

Alex Sorkine-Hornung has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • System for optimized embedding and analysis of branded content
    Patent number: 10580165
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus, system and method for processing transmedia content data. More specifically, the disclosure provides for identifying and inserting one item of media content within another item of media content, e.g. inserting a video within a video, such that the first item of media content appears as part of the second item. The invention involves analysing a first visual media item to identify one or more spatial locations to insert the second visual media item within the image data of the first visual media item, detecting characteristics of the one or more identified spatial locations, transforming the second visual media item according to the detected characteristics and combining the first visual media item and second visual media item by inserting the transformed second visual media item into the first visual media item at the one or more identified spatial locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignees: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC., ETH ZÜRICH (EIDGENÖSSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZÜRICH)
    Inventors: Alex Sorkine-Hornung, Simone Meier, Jean-Charles Bazin, Sasha Schriber, Markus Gross, Oliver Wang
  • SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZED EMBEDDING AND ANALYSIS OF BRANDED CONTENT
    Publication number: 20190096094
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus, system and method for processing transmedia content data. More specifically, the disclosure provides for identifying and inserting one item of media content within another item of media content, e.g. inserting a video within a video, such that the first item of media content appears as part of the second item. The invention involves analysing a first visual media item to identify one or more spatial locations to insert the second visual media item within the image data of the first visual media item, detecting characteristics of the one or more identified spatial locations, transforming the second visual media item according to the detected characteristics and combining the first visual media item and second visual media item by inserting the transformed second visual media item into the first visual media item at the one or more identified spatial locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicants: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC., ETH Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)
    Inventors: Alex Sorkine-Hornung, Simone Meier, Jean-Charles Bazin, Sasha Schriber, Markus Gross, Oliver Wang