Patents by Inventor Edwin R. Leonard
Edwin R. Leonard 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).
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Patent number: 10255227Abstract: A social media video system provides for the authoring, archiving, and/or delivering of interactive social media videos. A social media video includes one or more media assets, which may be images, video clips, music clips, text verbiages, or the like. A social media video may be associated with a style profile that provides visual and/or aural effects that are pleasing, to a social media video viewer. The social media video system maintains social media videos in a template format, and may defer the rendering of a social media video until it is selected for viewing. The maintaining of social media videos in template format allows for efficient transmission and editing of social media videos. A social media video that is created and shared by one user may be modified and be shared again. In this way, users can collaborate to create, critique, and iterate social media videos.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: OATH INC.Inventors: Hans T. Ku, Edwin R. Leonard, David M. Koenig, Gene Z. Ragan
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Patent number: 10191624Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for creating social media videos based on media assets. A computing device displays a graphical user interface (“GUI”) for creating the social media video. The GUI includes a first region for selecting a media asset and a second region for displaying selected media assets. The device receives a user selection of the first media asset for use in a social media video. The device obtains a first metadata information associated with the first media asset, obtains a second media asset based at least in part on the first metadata information, and displays, in the first region, a thumbnail image of the second media asset. The second media asset is obtained based on first metadata information. In this way, related media assets are retrieved and display to optimize the creation of social media videos.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2013Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: OATH INC.Inventors: Hans T. Ku, David M. Koenig, Edwin R. Leonard, David Moore
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Patent number: 10083151Abstract: A Social Media Video system provides for the interactive viewing of Social Media Videos. A social media video includes one or more media assets, which may be images, video clips, music clips, text verbiages, or the like. During the display of a Social Media Video, a user may interact with the display to control the visual appearance of the audio/visual content of the display. The visual appearance of a Social Media Video may be changed to include visual and/or aural effects that are pleasing to a social media video viewer. The visual appearance of a Social Media Video may also be changed for better theatrical effect.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2013Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: OATH INC.Inventors: Hans T. Ku, David M. Koenig, Edwin R. Leonard, Gene Z. Ragan
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Publication number: 20160179314Abstract: Devices and methods for creating social media videos based on media assets are disclosed. A computing device displays a graphical user interface (“GUI”) for creating the social media video. The GUI includes a first region for selecting a media asset and a second region for displaying selected media assets. The device receives a user selection of the first media asset for use in a social media video. The device obtains a first metadata information associated with the first media asset, obtains a second media asset based at least in part on the first metadata information, and displays, in the first region, a thumbnail image of the second media asset. The second media asset is obtained based on first metadata information. In this way, related media assets are retrieved and display to optimize the creation of social media videos.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2013Publication date: June 23, 2016Inventors: Hans T. KU, David M. KOENIG, Edwin R. LEONARD, David MOORE
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Publication number: 20140317510Abstract: Devices and methods for creating social media videos based on media assets are disclosed. A computing device displays a graphical user interface (“GUI”) for creating the social media video. The GUI includes a first region for selecting a media asset and a second region for displaying selected media assets. The device receives a user selection of the first media asset for use in a social media video. The device obtains a first metadata information associated with the first media asset, obtains a second media asset based at least in part on the first metadata information, and displays, in the first region, a thumbnail image of the second media asset. The second media asset is obtained based on first metadata information. In this way, related media assets are retrieved and display to optimize the creation of social media videos.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2013Publication date: October 23, 2014Applicant: DWA INVESTMENTS, INC.Inventors: Hans T. KU, David M. KOENIG, Edwin R. LEONARD, David MOORE
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Publication number: 20130311561Abstract: A social media video system provides for the authoring, archiving, and/or delivering of interactive social media videos. A social media video includes one or more media assets, which may be images, video clips, music clips, text verbiages, or the like. A social media video may be associated with a style profile that provides visual and/or aural effects that are pleasing, to a social media video viewer. The social media video system maintains social media videos in a template format, and may defer the rendering of a social media video until it is selected for viewing. The maintaining of social media videos in template format allows for efficient transmission and editing of social media videos. A social media video that is created and shared by one user may be modified and be shared again. In this way, users can collaborate to create, critique, and iterate social media videos.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: DWA Investments, IncInventors: Hans T. KU, Edwin R. LEONARD, David M. KOENIG, Gene Z. RAGAN
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Publication number: 20130311886Abstract: A Social Media Video system provides for the interactive viewing of Social Media Videos. A social media video includes one or more media assets, which may be images, video clips, music clips, text verbiages, or the like. During the display of a Social Media Video, a user may interact with the display to control the visual appearance of the audio/visual content of the display. The visual appearance of a Social Media Video may be changed to include visual and/or aural effects that are pleasing to a social media video viewer. The visual appearance of a Social Media Video may also be changed for better theatrical effect.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2013Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: DWA Investments, Inc.Inventors: Hans T. KU, David M. KOENIG, Edwin R. LEONARD, Gene Z. RAGAN
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Patent number: 8497852Abstract: A drawing table for an animator to hand create or modify a computer-generated image includes a display and a fused fiber optic plate. The display is configured to display the computer-generated image on a top surface. The fused fiber optic plate of bundled, optical fibers has an input surface and an output surface. The input surface is optically bonded to the top surface of the display. When the computer-generated image is displayed on the display, the fused fiber optic plate is configured to relay the computer-generated image from the input surface to the output surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2011Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: DreamWorks Animation LLCInventors: Edwin R. Leonard, Hans T. Ku
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Publication number: 20130063363Abstract: A drawing table for an animator to hand create or modify a computer-generated image includes a display and a fused fiber optic plate. The display is configured to display the computer-generated image on a top surface. The fused fiber optic plate of bundled, optical fibers has an input surface and an output surface. The input surface is optically bonded to the top surface of the display. When the computer-generated image is displayed on the display, the fused fiber optic plate is configured to relay the computer-generated image from the input surface to the output surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2011Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: DreamWorks Animation LLCInventors: Edwin R. LEONARD, Hans T. Ku
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Patent number: 7515174Abstract: A video conferencing system provides perspective correct eye-to-eye interaction for multiple participants at sites remote from each other. The system provides at each site a configuration of participant viewing positions, a multidirectional image capture system for capturing images of each position at one site from the perspective of each viewing position at the other site, and a multidirectional display system for displaying images of each viewing position at the other site from the perspective of each viewing position at the one site.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2004Date of Patent: April 7, 2009Assignee: DreamWorks Animation L.L.C.Inventors: Emmanuel C. Francisco, Edwin R. Leonard
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Patent number: 7119829Abstract: An enhanced video conferencing system and method includes at least two conference rooms, the conference rooms connected together electronically to permit the transmission of images and sound from one room to the other room. Each room has a large format display system for projecting images and a camera positioned with respect to the large format display system to capture images of the conference room and its participants while the participants are looking at the large format display system, without obscuring the participants' view of the display system, so as to provide the perception that the participants in one conference room are looking directly at the participants in the other conference room. The enhanced video conferencing system may also include an additional camera for capturing an image of an item located at a pre-determined location within the conference room for ultimate transmission to the other conference room for viewing.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2003Date of Patent: October 10, 2006Assignee: DreamWorks Animation LLCInventors: Edwin R. Leonard, Bruce Daitch, Emmanuel C. Francisco, Richard F. Rubio, Derek Chan, James F. Beshears
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Patent number: D830374Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: BRED VENTURES INC.Inventors: Edwin R. Leonard, Bryan Ezra Clay
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Patent number: D831033Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2016Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: BRED VENTURES INC.Inventors: Edwin R. Leonard, Bryan Ezra Clay
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Patent number: D846591Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2016Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: BRED VENTURES INC.Inventors: Edwin R. Leonard, Bryan Ezra Clay