Patents by Inventor Charles MALLESON

Charles MALLESON 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).

  • Single shot capture to animated VR avatar
    Patent number: 10846903
    Abstract: Presented herein are systems and methods configured to generate virtual entities representing real-world users. In some implementations, the systems and/or methods are configured to capture user appearance information with imaging devices and sensors, determines correspondence values conveying correspondences between the appearance of the user's body or user's head and individual ones of default body models and/or default head models, modifies a set of values defining a base body model and/or base head model based on determined correspondence values and sets of base values defining the default body models and/or default head models. The base body model and/or base head model may be modified to model the appearance of the body and/or head of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Mitchell, Charles Malleson, Ivan Huerta Casado, Martin Klaudiny, Malgorzata Edyta Kosek
  • SINGLE SHOT CAPTURE TO ANIMATED VR AVATAR
    Publication number: 20190279411
    Abstract: Presented herein are systems and methods configured to generate virtual entities representing real-world users. In some implementations, the systems and/or methods are configured to capture user appearance information with imaging devices and sensors, determines correspondence values conveying correspondences between the appearance of the user's body or user's head and individual ones of default body models and/or default head models, modifies a set of values defining a base body model and/or base head model based on determined correspondence values and sets of base values defining the default body models and/or default head models. The base body model and/or base head model may be modified to model the appearance of the body and/or head of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Kenneth MITCHELL, Charles MALLESON, Ivan Huerta CASADO, Martin KLAUDINY, Malgorzata Edyta KOSEK
  • Single shot capture to animated vr avatar
    Patent number: 10311624
    Abstract: Presented herein are systems and methods configured to generate virtual entities representing real-world users. In some implementations, the systems and/or methods are configured to capture user appearance information with imaging devices and sensors, determines correspondence values conveying correspondences between the appearance of the user's body or user's head and individual ones of default body models and/or default head models, modifies a set of values defining a base body model and/or base head model based on determined correspondence values and sets of base values defining the default body models and/or default head models. The base body model and/or base head model may be modified to model the appearance of the body and/or head of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Mitchell, Charles Malleson, Ivan Huerta Casado, Martin Klaudiny, Malgorzata Edyta Kosek
  • SINGLE SHOT CAPTURE TO ANIMATED VR AVATAR
    Publication number: 20180374251
    Abstract: Presented herein are systems and methods configured to generate virtual entities representing real-world users. In some implementations, the systems and/or methods are configured to capture user appearance information with imaging devices and sensors, determines correspondence values conveying correspondences between the appearance of the user's body or user's head and individual ones of default body models and/or default head models, modifies a set of values defining a base body model and/or base head model based on determined correspondence values and sets of base values defining the default body models and/or default head models. The base body model and/or base head model may be modified to model the appearance of the body and/or head of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Kenneth MITCHELL, Charles MALLESON, Ivan Huerta CASADO, Martin KLAUDINY, Malgorzata Edyta KOSEK