Patents by Inventor Benjamin Havey

Benjamin Havey 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).

  • Patent number: 11610239
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing machine-learning enabled user-specific evaluations are disclosed. Implementations include obtaining a first set of evaluation data from a user interface, obtaining a first set of target-descriptive data including target-specific characteristics objectively describing the evaluation targets, and training, with a machine-learning algorithm, a user-specific evaluation profile indicating evaluation patterns relative to the first set of evaluation data and the first set of target-specific characteristics. Implementations include applying the user-specific evaluation profile to a second set of target-descriptive data to predict a user-specific evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Chapman, Mehul Patel, Joseph Popp, Benjamin Havey
  • Patent number: 10777008
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein are directed to enhancing a virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) experience by using one or more unmanned vehicles to generate effects around a user of a headmounted display (HMD). The generated effects may be synchronized with VR/AR content presented to the user of the HMD. Particular systems and methods described herein are directed to enhancing a VR/AR experience by using one or more unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to generate air flow effects around a user of a HMD. The air flow effects generated by UAV may simulate a physical and/or olfactory sensation corresponding to a VR/AR environment presented to the user using the HMD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
    Inventors: Alexander C. Chen, Steven Chapman, Benjamin Havey
  • Publication number: 20200019370
    Abstract: Implementations of the disclosure describe AI systems that offer an improvisational story telling AI agent that may interact collaboratively with a user. In one implementation, a story telling device may be implemented using i) a natural language understanding (NLU) component to process human language input (e.g., digitized speech or text input); ii) a natural language processing (NLP) component to parse the human language input into a story segment or sequence; iii) a component for storing/recording the story as it is created by collaboration; iv) a component for generating AI-suggested story elements; and v) a natural language generation (NLG) component to transform the AI-generated story segment into natural language that may be presented to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Erika Varis Doggett, Edward Drake, Benjamin Havey
  • Publication number: 20190340659
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing machine-learning enabled user-specific evaluations are disclosed. Implementations include obtaining a first set of evaluation data from a user interface, obtaining a first set of target-descriptive data including target-specific characteristics objectively describing the evaluation targets, and training, with a machine-learning algorithm, a user-specific evaluation profile indicating evaluation patterns relative to the first set of evaluation data and the first set of target-specific characteristics. Implementations include applying the user-specific evaluation profile to a second set of target-descriptive data to predict a user-specific evaluation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven CHAPMAN, Mehul PATEL, Joseph POPP, Benjamin HAVEY
  • Patent number: 10311917
    Abstract: There is provided a system comprising a non-transitory memory and a hardware processor configured to determine elements of a performance in a video, identify one or more people to feature in the video based on the elements of the performance in the video, receive a user input selecting a person from the one or more people to feature in the video, retrieve performance data for featuring the selected person in the video based on actions performed by the actor in the video, create a personalized video by featuring the selected person in the video using the performance data, and display the personalized video on a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Tony R. Smith, Edward C. Drake, Benjamin Havey, Alexander C. Chen
  • Publication number: 20190066359
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein are directed to enhancing a virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) experience by using one or more unmanned vehicles to generate effects around a user of a headmounted display (HMD). The generated effects may be synchronized with VR/AR content presented to the user of the HMD. Particular systems and methods described herein are directed to enhancing a VR/AR experience by using one or more unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to generate air flow effects around a user of a HMD. The air flow effects generated by UAV may simulate a physical and/or olfactory sensation corresponding to a VR/AR environment presented to the user using the HMD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander C. Chen, Steven M. Chapman, Benjamin Havey
  • Publication number: 20180025750
    Abstract: There is provided a system comprising a non-transitory memory and a hardware processor configured to determine elements of a performance in a video, identify one or more people to feature in the video based on the elements of the performance in the video, receive a user input selecting a person from the one or more people to feature in the video, retrieve performance data for featuring the selected person in the video based on actions performed by the actor in the video, create a personalized video by featuring the selected person in the video using the performance data, and display the personalized video on a user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Tony R. Smith, Edward C. Drake, Benjamin Havey, Alexander C. Chen