Patents by Inventor Daniel Cahall

Daniel Cahall 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: 12333258
    Abstract: A system for emotionally enhancing dialogue includes a computing platform having processing hardware and a system memory storing a software code including a predictive model. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to receive dialogue data identifying an utterance for use by a digital character in a conversation, analyze, using the dialogue data, an emotionality of the utterance at multiple structural levels of the utterance, and supplement the utterance with one or more emotional attributions, using the predictive model and the emotionality of the utterance at the multiple structural levels, to provide one or more candidate emotionally enhanced utterance(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Sanchita Tiwari, Justin Ali Kennedy, Dirk Van Dall, Xiuyang Yu, Daniel Cahall, Brian Kazmierczak
  • Patent number: 12096093
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Comito, Daniel Cahall
  • Publication number: 20240276078
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Keith Comito, Daniel Cahall
  • Patent number: 11983808
    Abstract: A system for producing conversation-driven character animation includes a computing platform having processing hardware and a system memory storing software code, the software code including multiple trained machine learning (ML) models. The processing hardware executes the software code to obtain a conversation understanding feature set describing a present state of a conversation between a digital character and a system user, and to generate an inference, using at least a first trained ML model of the multiple trained ML models and the conversation understanding feature set, the inference including labels describing a predicted next state of a scene within the conversation. The processing hardware further executes the software code to produce, using at least a second trained ML model of the multiple trained ML models and the labels, an animation stream of the digital character participating in the predicted next state of the scene within the conversation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Sanchita Tiwari, Justin Ali Kennedy, Mark R. Brashear, Daniel Cahall, Dumene Comploi, Dirk Van Dall, Keith Comito
  • Publication number: 20240070951
    Abstract: A system for producing conversation-driven character animation includes a computing platform having processing hardware and a system memory storing software code, the software code including multiple trained machine learning (ML) models. The processing hardware executes the software code to obtain a conversation understanding feature set describing a present state of a conversation between a digital character and a system user, and to generate an inference, using at least a first trained ML model of the multiple trained ML models and the conversation understanding feature set, the inference including labels describing a predicted next state of a scene within the conversation. The processing hardware further executes the software code to produce, using at least a second trained ML model of the multiple trained ML models and the labels, an animation stream of the digital character participating in the predicted next state of the scene within the conversation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Sanchita Tiwari, Justin Ali Kennedy, Mark R. Brashear, Daniel Cahall, Dumene Comploi, Dirk Van Dall, Keith Comito
  • Publication number: 20240070399
    Abstract: A system for emotionally enhancing dialogue includes a computing platform having processing hardware and a system memory storing a software code including a predictive model. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to receive dialogue data identifying an utterance for use by a digital character in a conversation, analyze, using the dialogue data, an emotionality of the utterance at multiple structural levels of the utterance, and supplement the utterance with one or more emotional attributions, using the predictive model and the emotionality of the utterance at the multiple structural levels, to provide one or more candidate emotionally enhanced utterance(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Sanchita Tiwari, Justin Ali Kennedy, Dirk Van Dall, Xiuyang Yu, Daniel Cahall, Brian Kazmierczak