Patents by Inventor Joseph S. RICE

Joseph S. RICE 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: 11936940
    Abstract: A user system for rendering accessibility enhanced content includes processing hardware, a display, and a memory storing software code. The processing hardware executes the software code to receive primary content from a content distributor and determine whether the primary content is accessibility enhanced content including an accessibility track. When the primary content omits the accessibility track, the processing hardware executes the software code to perform a visual analysis, an audio analysis, or both, of the primary content, generate, based on the visual analysis and/or the audio analysis, the accessibility track to include at least one of a sign language performance or one or more video tokens configured to be played back during playback of the primary content, and synchronize the accessibility track to the primary content. The processing hardware also executes the software code to render, using the display, the primary content or the accessibility enhanced content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Arana, Katherine S. Navarre, Michael A. Radford, Joseph S. Rice, Noel Brandon Vasquez
  • Publication number: 20220360839
    Abstract: A system for delivering accessibility enhanced content includes a computer server having processing hardware and a memory storing a software code. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to deliver, to a user system, accessibility enhanced content comprising primary content and an accessibility track synchronized to the primary content, the accessibility track including at least one of a sign language performance, or one or more video tokens each expressing one or more words. When the accessibility track includes the sign language performance, the sign language performance is delivered contemporaneously with delivery of the primary content. When the accessibility track includes the one or more video tokens, the one or more video tokens are played back when the primary content reaches a location corresponding to each of the one or more video tokens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Mark Arana, Katherine S. Navarre, Michael A. Radford, Joseph S. Rice
  • Publication number: 20220360844
    Abstract: A user system for rendering accessibility enhanced content includes processing hardware, a display, and a memory storing software code. The processing hardware executes the software code to receive primary content from a content distributor and determine whether the primary content is accessibility enhanced content including an accessibility track. When the primary content omits the accessibility track, the processing hardware executes the software code to perform a visual analysis, an audio analysis, or both, of the primary content, generate, based on the visual analysis and/or the audio analysis, the accessibility track to include at least one of a sign language performance or one or more video tokens configured to be played back during playback of the primary content, and synchronize the accessibility track to the primary content. The processing hardware also executes the software code to render, using the display, the primary content or the accessibility enhanced content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Mark Arana, Katherine S. Navarre, Michael A. Radford, Joseph S. Rice, Noel Brandon Vasquez
  • Publication number: 20220358855
    Abstract: A system for creating accessibility enhanced content includes processing hardware and a memory storing software code. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to receive primary content, execute at least one of a visual analysis or an audio analysis of the primary content, and generate, based on the visual analysis, the audio analysis, or both, an accessibility track. The accessibility track includes at least one of a sign language performance, one or more video tokens to be played back when the primary content reaches a location corresponding to the video token(s), or one or more haptic effects to be actuated when the primary content reaches a location corresponding to the haptic effect(s). The processing hardware is further configured to execute the software code to synchronize the accessibility track to the primary content, and supplement the primary content with the accessibility track to provide the accessibility enhanced content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Mark Arana, Katherine S. Navarre, Michael A. Radford, Joseph S. Rice
  • Patent number: 11368505
    Abstract: Techniques for improved media streaming are provided. A request for a variant list for streaming media content is received from a requesting entity, where the request includes a predefined flag. A set of predefined rules corresponding to the predefined flag is identified. The variant list is pruned based on the set of predefined rules, and the pruned variant list is transmitted to the requesting entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric R. Klein, William B. May, Jr., Jeffrey Edwin Grubb, Aashish J. Shah, Eric C. Friedrich, Joseph S. Rice, Joseph A. Inzerillo, Christopher J. Zucker, Joseph C. Hart
  • Publication number: 20220086207
    Abstract: Techniques for improved media streaming are provided. A request for a variant list for streaming media content is received from a requesting entity, where the request includes a predefined flag. A set of predefined rules corresponding to the predefined flag is identified. The variant list is pruned based on the set of predefined rules, and the pruned variant list is transmitted to the requesting entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Eric R. KLEIN, William B. MAY, JR., Jeffrey Edwin GRUBB, Aashish J. SHAH, Eric C. FRIEDRICH, Joseph S. RICE, Joseph A. INZERILLO, Christopher J. ZUCKER, Joseph C. HART