Patents by Inventor Christopher Eich

Christopher Eich 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: 10353945
    Abstract: There is provided a system including a non-transitory memory storing a media library including an ordered plurality of media contents, each including a plurality of attribute tags, and a hardware processor configured to provide a user interface for display on a user device for navigating the media contents, receive a user input from the user device for playing one or more of the ordered media contents based on a first attribute tag of the plurality of attribute tags, stream a first portion of a first media content to the user device, based on the first attribute tag of the media content selected by the user input, and stream a second portion of a second media content to the user device following the first portion of the first media content, based on the first attribute tag of the media content selected by the user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Skarphedinn Hedinsson, Katharine S. Ettinger, Christopher Eich, Anthony M. Accardo
  • Patent number: 10068616
    Abstract: According to one implementation, a video processing system for performing thumbnail generation includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a thumbnail generator software code. The hardware processor executes the thumbnail generator software code to receive a video file, and identify a plurality of shots in the video file, each of the plurality of shots including a plurality of frames of the video file. For each of the plurality of shots, the hardware processor further executes the thumbnail generator software code to filter the plurality of frames to obtain a plurality of key frame candidates, determine a ranking of the plurality of key frame candidates based in part on a blur detection analysis and an image distribution analysis of each of the plurality of key frame candidates, and generate a thumbnail based on the ranking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Aljoscha Smolic, Marc Junyent Martin, Asier Aduriz, Tunc Ozan Aydin, Christopher A. Eich
  • Publication number: 20180197577
    Abstract: According to one implementation, a video processing system for performing thumbnail generation includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a thumbnail generator software code. The hardware processor executes the thumbnail generator software code to receive a video file, and identify a plurality of shots in the video file, each of the plurality of shots including a plurality of frames of the video file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Aljoscha Smolic, Marc Junyent Martin, Asier Aduriz, Tunc Ozan Aydin, Christopher A. Eich
  • Publication number: 20180004746
    Abstract: There is provided a system including a non-transitory memory storing a media library including an ordered plurality of media contents, each including a plurality of attribute tags, and a hardware processor configured to provide a user interface for display on a user device for navigating the media contents, receive a user input from the user device for playing one or more of the ordered media contents based on a first attribute tag of the plurality of attribute tags, stream a first portion of a first media content to the user device, based on the first attribute tag of the media content selected by the user input, and stream a second portion of a second media content to the user device following the first portion of the first media content, based on the first attribute tag of the media content selected by the user input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Skarphedinn Hedinsson, Katharine S. Ettinger, Christopher Eich, Anthony M. Accardo