Patents by Inventor Edward Bradley

Edward Bradley 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: 12367649
    Abstract: Methods and systems for generating three-dimensional (3D) models and facial hair models representative of subjects (e.g., actors or actresses) using facial scanning technology. Initial subject facial data, including facial frames and facial performance frames (e.g., images of the subject collected from a capture system) can be used to accurately predict the structure of the subject's face underneath their facial hair to produce a reference 3D facial shape of the subject. Likewise, image processing techniques can be used to identify facial hairs and generate a reference facial hair model. The reference 3D facial shape and reference facial hair mode can subsequently be used to generate performance 3D facial shapes and a performance facial hair model corresponding to a performance by the subject (e.g., reciting dialog).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignees: Disney Enterprises, Inc., ETH Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)
    Inventors: Sebastian Winberg, Prashanth Chandran, Paulo Fabiano Urnau Gotardo, Gaspard Zoss, Derek Edward Bradley
  • Patent number: 12361663
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to methods and systems for generating three-dimensional (3D) models and facial hair models representative of subjects (e.g., actors or actresses) using facial scanning technology. Methods accord to embodiments may be useful for performing facial capture on subjects with dense facial hair. Initial subject facial data, including facial frames and facial performance frames (e.g., images of the subject collected from a capture system) can be used to accurately predict the structure of the subject's face underneath their facial hair to produce a reference 3D facial shape of the subject. Likewise, image processing techniques can be used to identify facial hairs and generate a reference facial hair model. The reference 3D facial shape and reference facial hair mode can subsequently be used to generate performance 3D facial shapes and a performance facial hair model corresponding to a performance by the subject (e.g., reciting dialog).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignees: Disney Enterprises, Inc., ETH Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)
    Inventors: Derek Edward Bradley, Paulo Fabiano Urnau Gotardo, Gaspard Zoss, Prashanth Chandran, Sebastian Winberg
  • Patent number: 12340440
    Abstract: A technique for performing style transfer between a content sample and a style sample is disclosed. The technique includes applying one or more neural network layers to a first latent representation of the style sample to generate one or more convolutional kernels. The technique also includes generating convolutional output by convolving a second latent representation of the content sample with the one or more convolutional kernels. The technique further includes applying one or more decoder layers to the convolutional output to produce a style transfer result that comprises one or more content-based attributes of the content sample and one or more style-based attributes of the style sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignees: Disney Enterprises, Inc., ETH Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)
    Inventors: Prashanth Chandran, Derek Edward Bradley, Paulo Fabiano Urnau Gotardo, Gaspard Zoss
  • Publication number: 20250173911
    Abstract: A decoder apparatus comprises receiving circuitry to receive caption data indicative of a language-based description for a first image and encoded data representative of the first image; and decoder circuitry comprising one or more trained machine learning models operable to generate a reconstructed image in dependence on the caption data and the encoded data, the reconstructed image having a higher image quality than an image quality associated with the encoded data representative of the first image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2024
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Inventors: Pierluigi Vito Amadori, Timothy Edward Bradley, Ayush Raina, Guy David Moss, Ryan John Spick
  • Patent number: 12243349
    Abstract: Embodiment of the present invention sets forth techniques for performing face reconstruction. The techniques include generating an identity mesh based on an identity encoding that represents an identity associated with a face in one or more images. The techniques also include generating an expression mesh based on an expression encoding that represents an expression associated with the face in the one or more images. The techniques also include generating, by a machine learning model, an output mesh of the face based on the identity mesh and the expression mesh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignees: Disney Enterprises, INC., ETH Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)
    Inventors: Derek Edward Bradley, Prashanth Chandran, Simone Foti, Paulo Fabiano Urnau Gotardo, Gaspard Zoss
  • Patent number: 12243140
    Abstract: A technique for rendering an input geometry includes generating a first segmentation mask for a first input geometry and a first set of texture maps associated with one or more portions of the first input geometry. The technique also includes generating, via one or more neural networks, a first set of neural textures for the one or more portions of the first input geometry. The technique further includes rendering a first image corresponding to the first input geometry based on the first segmentation mask, the first set of texture maps, and the first set of neural textures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignees: Disney Enterprises, INC., ETH Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)
    Inventors: Derek Edward Bradley, Prashanth Chandran, Paulo Fabiano Urnau Gotardo, Gaspard Zoss
  • Patent number: 12236517
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for generating photorealistic images of objects, such as heads, from multiple viewpoints. In some embodiments, a morphable radiance field (MoRF) model that generates images of heads includes an identity model that maps an identifier (ID) code associated with a head into two codes: a deformation ID code encoding a geometric deformation from a canonical head geometry, and a canonical ID code encoding a canonical appearance within a shape-normalized space. The MoRF model also includes a deformation field model that maps a world space position to a shape-normalized space position based on the deformation ID code. Further, the MoRF model includes a canonical neural radiance field (NeRF) model that includes a density multi-layer perceptron (MLP) branch, a diffuse MLP branch, and a specular MLP branch that output densities, diffuse colors, and specular colors, respectively. The MoRF model can be used to render images of heads from various viewpoints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignees: Disney Enterprises, INC., ETH Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)
    Inventors: Derek Edward Bradley, Prashanth Chandran, Paulo Fabiano Urnau Gotardo, Daoye Wang, Gaspard Zoss
  • Patent number: 12212078
    Abstract: Multi-band phased array antennas include a backplane, a vertical array of low-band radiating elements that form a first antenna beam, first and second vertical arrays of high-band radiating elements that form respective second and third antenna beams and a vertical array of RF lenses. The first, second and third antenna beams point in different directions. A respective one of the second radiating elements and a respective one of the third radiating elements are positioned between the backplane and each RF lens, and at least some of the first radiating elements are positioned between the RF lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC
    Inventors: Scott Michaelis, Igor Timofeev, Edward Bradley
  • Patent number: 12205213
    Abstract: A technique for rendering an input geometry includes generating a first segmentation mask for a first input geometry and a first set of texture maps associated with one or more portions of the first input geometry. The technique also includes generating, via one or more neural networks, a first set of neural textures for the one or more portions of the first input geometry. The technique further includes rendering a first image corresponding to the first input geometry based on the first segmentation mask, the first set of texture maps, and the first set of neural textures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignees: Disney Enterprises, INC., ETH Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)
    Inventors: Derek Edward Bradley, Prashanth Chandran, Paulo Fabiano Urnau Gotardo, Gaspard Zoss
  • Patent number: 12198225
    Abstract: A technique for synthesizing a shape includes generating a first plurality of offset tokens based on a first shape code and a first plurality of position tokens, wherein the first shape code represents a variation of a canonical shape, and wherein the first plurality of position tokens represent a first plurality of positions on the canonical shape. The technique also includes generating a first plurality of offsets associated with the first plurality of positions on the canonical shape based on the first plurality of offset tokens. The technique further includes generating the shape based on the first plurality of offsets and the first plurality of positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignees: Disney Enterprises, INC., ETH Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)
    Inventors: Derek Edward Bradley, Prashanth Chandran, Paulo Fabiano Urnau Gotardo, Gaspard Zoss
  • Patent number: 12118734
    Abstract: Some implementations of the disclosure are directed to capturing facial training data for one or more subjects, the captured facial training data including each of the one or more subject's facial skin geometry tracked over a plurality of times and the subject's corresponding jaw poses for each of those plurality of times; and using the captured facial training data to create a model that provides a mapping from skin motion to jaw motion. Additional implementations of the disclosure are directed to determining a facial skin geometry of a subject; using a model that provides a mapping from skin motion to jaw motion to predict a motion of the subject's jaw from a rest pose given the facial skin geometry; and determining a jaw pose of the subject using the predicted motion of the subject's jaw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignees: Disney Enterprises, Inc., ETH Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)
    Inventors: Dominik Thabo Beeler, Derek Edward Bradley, Gaspard Zoss
  • Patent number: 12111880
    Abstract: Various embodiments set forth systems and techniques for changing a face within an image. The techniques include receiving a first image including a face associated with a first facial identity; generating, via a machine learning model, at least a first texture map and a first position map based on the first image; rendering a second image including a face associated with a second facial identity based on the first texture map and the first position map, wherein the second facial identity is different from the first facial identity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignees: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC., ETH Zurich (Eidgenssische Technische Hochschule Zurich)
    Inventors: Jacek Krzysztof Naruniec, Derek Edward Bradley, Paulo Fabiano Urnau Gotardo, Leonhard Markus Helminger, Christopher Andreas Otto, Christopher Richard Schroers, Romann Matthew Weber
  • Publication number: 20240333263
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed to improve flip-flop toggle efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Chinmay Pradeep Joshi, Dinesh Somasekhar, David Edward Bradley, Radhika Kudva
  • Patent number: 12086927
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for performing appearance capture. The technique includes receiving a first sequence of images of an object, wherein the first sequence of images includes a first set of images interleaved with a second set of images, and wherein the first set of images is captured based on illumination of the object using a first lighting pattern and the second set of images is captured based on illumination of the object using one or more lighting patterns that are different from the first lighting pattern. The technique also includes generating a first set of appearance parameters associated with the object based on a first inverse rendering associated with the first sequence of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
    Inventors: Paulo Fabiano Urnau Gotardo, Derek Edward Bradley, Jérémy Riviere
  • Publication number: 20240284011
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus for determining description data for describing content includes: a video captioning model to receive an input comprising at least video images associated with the content, wherein the video captioning model is trained to detect one or more predetermined motions of one or more animated objects in the video images and determine one or more captions in dependence on one or more of the predetermined motions, one or more of the captions comprising respective caption data comprising one or more words for describing one or more of the predetermined motions, the respective caption data comprising one or more of audio data, text data and image data; and output circuitry to output description data in dependence on one or more of the captions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Spick, Timothy Edward Bradley, Guy David Moss, Ayush Raina, Pierluigi Amadori
  • Patent number: 12056807
    Abstract: An image rendering method for rendering a pixel at a viewpoint includes, for a first element of a virtual scene, having a predetermined surface at a position within that scene; providing the position and a direction based on the viewpoint to a machine learning system previously trained to predict a factor that, when combined with a distribution function that characterises an interaction of light with the predetermined surface, generates a pixel value corresponding to the first element of the virtual scene as illuminated at the position, combining the predicted factor from the machine learning system with the distribution function to generate the pixel value corresponding to the illuminated first element of the virtual scene at the position, and incorporating the pixel value into a rendered image for display, where the machine learning system was previously trained with a training set based on images comprising multiple lighting conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Fabio Cappello, Matthew Sanders, Marina Villanueva Barreiro, Timothy Edward Bradley, Andrew James Bigos
  • Patent number: 12034227
    Abstract: Multi-band phased array antennas include a backplane, a vertical array of low-band radiating elements that form a first antenna beam, first and second vertical arrays of high-band radiating elements that form respective second and third antenna beams and a vertical array of RF lenses. The first, second and third antenna beams point in different directions. A respective one of the second radiating elements and a respective one of the third radiating elements are positioned between the backplane and each RF lens, and at least some of the first radiating elements are positioned between the RF lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Scott Michaelis, Igor Timofeev, Edward Bradley
  • Patent number: 11989971
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for capturing facial appearance properties. In some examples, a facial capture system includes light source(s) that produce linearly polarized light, at least one camera that is cross-polarized with respect to the polarization of light produced by the light source(s), and at least one other camera that is not cross-polarized with respect to the polarization of the light produced by the light source(s). Images captured by the cross-polarized camera(s) are used to determine facial appearance properties other than specular intensity, such as diffuse albedo, while images captured by the camera(s) that are not cross-polarized are used to determine facial appearance properties including specular intensity. In addition, a coarse-to-fine optimization procedure is disclosed for determining appearance and detailed geometry maps based on images captured by the cross-polarized camera(s) and the camera(s) that are not cross-polarized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy Riviere, Paulo Fabiano Urnau Gotardo, Abhijeet Ghosh, Derek Edward Bradley, Dominik Thabo Beeler
  • Patent number: 11908066
    Abstract: An image rendering method for rendering a pixel of a virtual scene at a viewpoint includes: downloading a machine learning system corresponding to a current or anticipated state an application determining the virtual scene to be rendered from among a plurality of machine learning systems corresponding to a plurality of states of the application; providing a position and a direction based on the viewpoint to the machine learning system previously trained to predict a factor; combining the predicted factor from the machine learning system with a distribution function that characterises an interaction of light with a predetermined surface to generate the pixel value corresponding to an illuminated first element of the virtual scene at the position; and incorporating the pixel value into a rendered image for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Marina Villanueva Barreiro, Andrew James Bigos, Gilles Christian Rainer, Fabio Cappello, Timothy Edward Bradley
  • Patent number: 11875441
    Abstract: A modeling engine generates a prediction model that quantifies and predicts secondary dynamics associated with the face of a performer enacting a performance. The modeling engine generates a set of geometric representations that represents the face of the performer enacting different facial expressions under a range of loading conditions. For a given facial expression and specific loading condition, the modeling engine trains a Machine Learning model to predict how soft tissue regions of the face of the performer change in response to external forces applied to the performer during the performance. The modeling engine combines different expression models associated with different facial expressions to generate a prediction model. The prediction model can be used to predict and remove secondary dynamics from a given geometric representation of a performance or to generate and add secondary dynamics to a given geometric representation of a performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC., ETH ZÜRICH (EIDGENÖSSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZÜRICH)
    Inventors: Dominik Thabo Beeler, Derek Edward Bradley, Eftychios Dimitrios Sifakis, Gaspard Zoss