Patents by Inventor Katharine S. Ettinger

Katharine S. Ettinger 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: 11523188
    Abstract: There is provided a system including a non-transitory memory storing an executable code and a hardware processor executing the executable code to receive a media content including a plurality of frames, divide the media content into a plurality of shots, each of the plurality of shots including a plurality of frames of the media content based on a first similarity between the plurality of frames, determine a plurality of sequential shots of the plurality of shots to be part of a first sub-scene of a plurality of sub-scenes of a scene based on a timeline continuity of the plurality of sequential shots, identify each of the plurality of shots of the media content and each of the plurality of sub-scenes with a corresponding beginning time code and a corresponding ending time code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Nimesh Narayan, Jack Luu, Alan Pao, Matthew Petrillo, Anthony M. Accardo, Alexis Lindquist, Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Katharine S. Ettinger, Lena Volodarsky Bareket
  • Patent number: 11089345
    Abstract: According to one implementation, a system for programmatic generation of media content digests includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a media content digest software code. The hardware processor executes the media content digest software code to identify a media content for use in generating a content digest, the media content including a timecode of the media content, to access a metadata describing the media content and indexed to the timecode, and to identify one or more constraints for the content digest. In addition, the hardware processor executes the media content digest software code to programmatically extract content segments from the media content using the metadata indexed to the timecode and based on the one or more constraints, and to generate the content digest based on the media content from the content segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: John M. Solaro, Alexis J. Lindquist, Anthony M. Accardo, Avner Swerdlow, Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Katharine S. Ettinger
  • Patent number: 11064268
    Abstract: According to one implementation, a media content annotation system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a software code. The hardware processor executes the software code to receive a first version of media content and a second version of the media content altered with respect to the first version, and to map each of multiple segments of the first version of the media content to a corresponding one segment of the second version of the media content. The software code further aligns each of the segments of the first version of the media content with its corresponding one segment of the second version of the media content, and utilizes metadata associated with each of at least some of the segments of the first version of the media content to annotate its corresponding one segment of the second version of the media content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Matthew C. Petrillo, Monica Alfaro Vendrell, Marc Junyent Martin, Katharine S. Ettinger, Evan A. Binder, Anthony M. Accardo, Avner Swerdlow
  • Patent number: 10817565
    Abstract: A media content tagging system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor, and a system memory storing a tag selector software code configured to receive media content having segments, each segment including multiple content elements each associated with metadata tags having respective pre-computed confidence scores. For each content element, the tag selector software code assigns each of the metadata tags to at least one tag group, determines a confidence score for each tag group based on the pre-computed confidence scores of its assigned metadata tags, discards tag groups having less than a minimum number of assigned metadata tags, and filters the reduced number of tag groups based on the second confidence score to identify a further reduced number of tag groups. The tag selector software code then selects at least one representative tag group for a segment from among the further reduced number of tag groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Matthew Petrillo, Monica Alfaro, Pablo Beltran Sanchidrian, Marc Junyent Martin, Evan A. Binder, Anthony M. Accardo, Katharine S. Ettinger, Avner Swerdlow
  • Patent number: 10754712
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a broker application automatically allocates tasks to application programming interfaces (APIs) in microservice architectures. After receiving a task from a client application, the broker application performs operation(s) on content associated with the task to compute predicted performance data for multiple APIs. The broker application then determines that a first API included in the APIs should process the first task based on the predicted performance data. The broker application transmits an API request associated with the first task to the first API for processing. After receiving a result associated with the first task from the first API, the client application performs operation(s) based on the result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Charles Petrillo, Monica Alfaro Vendrell, Marc Junyent Martin, Anthony M. Accardo, Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Katharine S. Ettinger, Avner Swerdlow
  • Patent number: 10747801
    Abstract: There is provided a media content ontology system and method. The system includes a computing platform having a processor and a memory, a content genome database stored in the memory, and ontology software for execution by the processor. The ontology software is configured to map a media content asset to first and second content classifications based on respective first and second data, and to generate first and second content genome database entries associating the media content asset with other, correspondingly mapped, media content assets. In addition, the ontology software is configured to cross-index the first and second content genome database entries to enable identification of each of the first and second content classifications and the media content asset based on any one of the first or second content classifications or the media content asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony M. Accardo, Craig R. Ferguson, Katharine S. Ettinger, Danton S. Miller
  • Publication number: 20200034215
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a broker application automatically allocates tasks to application programming interfaces (APIs) in microservice architectures. After receiving a task from a client application, the broker application performs operation(s) on content associated with the task to compute predicted performance data for multiple APIs. The broker application then determines that a first API included in the APIs should process the first task based on the predicted performance data. The broker application transmits an API request associated with the first task to the first API for processing. After receiving a result associated with the first task from the first API, the client application performs operation(s) based on the result.. Advantageously, because the broker application automatically allocates the first task to the first API based on the content, time and resource inefficiencies are reduced compared to prior art approaches that indiscriminately allocate tasks to APIs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Matthew Charles PETRILLO, Monica ALFARO VENDRELL, Marc JUNYENT MARTIN, Anthony M. ACCARDO, Miquel Angel FARRE GUIU, Katharine S. ETTINGER, Avner SWERDLOW
  • Patent number: 10489722
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture to perform an operation comprising processing, by a machine learning (ML) algorithm and a ML model, a plurality of images in a first dataset, wherein the ML model was generated based on a plurality of images in a training dataset, receiving user input reviewing a respective set of tags applied to each image in the first data set as a result of the processing, identifying, based on a first confusion matrix generated based on the user input and the sets of tags applied to the images in the first data set, a first labeling error in the training dataset, determining a type of the first labeling error based on a second confusion matrix, and modifying the training dataset based on the determined type of the first labeling error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Miquel Angel Farré Guiu, Marc Junyent Martin, Matthew C. Petrillo, Monica Alfaro Vendrell, Pablo Beltran Sanchidrian, Avner Swerdlow, Katharine S. Ettinger, Evan A. Binder, Anthony M. Accardo
  • Patent number: 10469905
    Abstract: According to one implementation, a content classification system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a video asset classification software code. The hardware processor executes the video asset classification software code to receive video clips depicting video assets and each including images and annotation metadata, and to preliminarily classify the images with one or more of the video assets to produce image clusters. The hardware processor further executes the video asset classification software code to identify key features data corresponding respectively to each image cluster, to segregate the image clusters into image super-clusters based on the key feature data, and to uniquely identify each of at least some of the image super-clusters with one of the video assets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Matthew Petrillo, Monica Alfaro Vendrell, Pablo Beltran Sanchidrian, Marc Junyent Martin, Avner Swerdlow, Katharine S. Ettinger, Anthony M. Accardo
  • Publication number: 20190297392
    Abstract: According to one implementation, a media content annotation system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a software code. The hardware processor executes the software code to receive a first version of media content and a second version of the media content altered with respect to the first version, and to map each of multiple segments of the first version of the media content to a corresponding one segment of the second version of the media content. The software code further aligns each of the segments of the first version of the media content with its corresponding one segment of the second version of the media content, and utilizes metadata associated with each of at least some of the segments of the first version of the media content to annotate its corresponding one segment of the second version of the media content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Matthew C. Petrillo, Monica Alfaro Vendrell, Marc Junyent Martin, Katharine S. Ettinger, Evan A. Binder, Anthony M. Accardo, Avner Swerdlow
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20190138617
    Abstract: A media content tagging system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor, and a system memory storing a tag selector software code configured to receive media content having segments, each segment including multiple content elements each associated with metadata tags having respective pre-computed confidence scores. For each content element, the tag selector software code assigns each of the metadata tags to at least one tag group, determines a confidence score for each tag group based on the pre-computed confidence scores of its assigned metadata tags, discards tag groups having less than a minimum number of assigned metadata tags, and filters the reduced number of tag groups based on the second confidence score to identify a further reduced number of tag groups. The tag selector software code then selects at least one representative tag group for a segment from among the further reduced number of tag groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Matthew Petrillo, Monica Alfaro, Pablo Beltran Sanchidrian, Marc Junyent Martin, Evan A. Binder, Anthony M. Accardo, Katharine S. Ettinger, Avner Swerdlow
  • Publication number: 20190034822
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture to perform an operation comprising processing, by a machine learning (ML) algorithm and a ML model, a plurality of images in a first dataset, wherein the ML model was generated based on a plurality of images in a training dataset, receiving user input reviewing a respective set of tags applied to each image in the first data set as a result of the processing, identifying, based on a first confusion matrix generated based on the user input and the sets of tags applied to the images in the first data set, a first labeling error in the training dataset, determining a type of the first labeling error based on a second confusion matrix, and modifying the training dataset based on the determined type of the first labeling error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Miquel Angel FARRÉ GUIU, Marc JUNYENT MARTIN, Matthew C. PETRILLO, Monica ALFARO VENDRELL, Pablo Beltran SANCHIDRIAN, Avner SWERDLOW, Katharine S. ETTINGER, Evan A. BINDER, Anthony M. ACCARDO
  • Publication number: 20190020912
    Abstract: According to one implementation, a system for programmatic generation of media content digests includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a media content digest software code. The hardware processor executes the media content digest software code to identify a media content for use in generating a content digest, the media content including a timecode of the media content, to access a metadata describing the media content and indexed to the timecode, and to identify one or more constraints for the content digest. In addition, the hardware processor executes the media content digest software code to programmatically extract content segments from the media content using the metadata indexed to the timecode and based on the one or more constraints, and to generate the content digest based on the media content from the content segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: John Solaro, Alexis J. Lindquist, Anthony M. Accardo, Avner Swerdlow, Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Katharine S. Ettinger
  • Publication number: 20180343496
    Abstract: According to one implementation, a content classification system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a video asset classification software code. The hardware processor executes the video asset classification software code to receive video clips depicting video assets and each including images and annotation metadata, and to preliminarily classify the images with one or more of the video assets to produce image clusters. The hardware processor further executes the video asset classification software code to identify key features data corresponding respectively to each image cluster, to segregate the image clusters into image super-clusters based on the key feature data, and to uniquely identify each of at least some of the image super-clusters with one of the video assets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventors: Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Matthew Petrillo, Monica Alfaro Vendrell, Pablo Beltran Sanchidrian, Marc Junyent Martin, Avner Swerdlow, Katharine S. Ettinger, Anthony M. Accardo
  • Patent number: 10057644
    Abstract: According to one implementation, a content classification system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a video asset classification software code. The hardware processor executes the video asset classification software code to receive video clips depicting video assets and each including images and annotation metadata, and to preliminarily classify the images with one or more of the video assets to produce image clusters. The hardware processor further executes the video asset classification software code to identify key features data corresponding respectively to each image cluster, to segregate the image clusters into image super-clusters based on the key feature data, and to uniquely identify each of at least some of the image super-clusters with one of the video assets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Matthew Petrillo, Monica Alfaro Vendrell, Pablo Beltran Sanchidrian, Marc Junyent Martin, Avner Swerdlow, Katharine S. Ettinger, Anthony M. Accardo
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20180005157
    Abstract: There are provided media asset tagging systems and method. Such a system includes a hardware processor, and a system memory storing a workflow management software code including a tagging application template and a multi-contributor synthesis module. The hardware processor executes the workflow management software code to provide a workflow management interface, to receive a media asset identification data and a workflow rules data, and to generate custom tagging applications based on the workflow rules data. The hardware processor further executes the workflow management software code to receive tagging data for the media asset, determine at least a first constraint for tagging the media asset, receive additional tagging data for, and determine at least a second constraint for tagging the media asset. The media asset is then tagged based on the tagging data and the additional tagging data, subject to the constraints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Nimesh Narayan, Jack Luu, Alan Pao, Matthew Petrillo, Anthony M. Accardo, Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Lena Volodarsky Bareket, Katharine S. Ettinger
  • Publication number: 20180005041
    Abstract: There is provided a system including a non-transitory memory storing an executable code and a hardware processor executing the executable code to receive a media content including a plurality of frames, divide the media content into a plurality of shots, each of the plurality of shots including a plurality of frames of the media content based on a first similarity between the plurality of frames, determine a plurality of sequential shots of the plurality of shots to be part of a first sub-scene of a plurality of sub-scenes of a scene based on a timeline continuity of the plurality of sequential shots, identify each of the plurality of shots of the media content and each of the plurality of sub-scenes with a corresponding beginning time code and a corresponding ending time code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Nimesh Narayan, Jack Luu, Alan Pao, Matthew Petrillo, Anthony M. Accardo, Alexis Lindquist, Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Katharine S. Ettinger, Lena Volodarsky Bareket
  • Publication number: 20170017644
    Abstract: There is provided a media content ontology system and method. The system includes a computing platform having a processor and a memory, a content genome database stored in the memory, and ontology software for execution by the processor. The ontology software is configured to map a media content asset to first and second content classifications based on respective first and second data, and to generate first and second content genome database entries associating the media content asset with other, correspondingly mapped, media content assets. In addition, the ontology software is configured to cross-index the first and second content genome database entries to enable identification of each of the first and second content classifications and the media content asset based on any one of the first or second content classifications or the media content asset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Anthony M. Accardo, Craig R. Ferguson, Katharine S. Ettinger, Danton S. Miller