Patents by Inventor Mark Arana
Mark Arana 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: 12279010Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for providing photosensitivity mitigation during display of content. In one implementation, such a system includes a hardware processor and a system memory storing a software application. The hardware processor is configured to execute the software application to, while content is being displayed on a primary display for viewing by a viewer, determine that a portion of the content that is about to be displayed on the primary display may trigger a photosensitivity reaction by the viewer, generate an alert to the viewer to switch viewing the content from the primary display to viewing the content from a secondary display, and display the portion of the content on the secondary display.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2023Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventor: Mark Arana
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Patent number: 12205211Abstract: A content enhancement system includes a computing platform having processing hardware and a system memory storing software code. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to receive audio-video (A/V) content, to execute at least one of a visual analysis or an audio analysis of the A/V content, and to determine, based on executing the at least one of the visual analysis or the audio analysis, an emotional aspect of the A/V content. The processing hardware is further configured to execute the software code to generate, using the emotional aspect of the A/V content, a sign language translation of the A/V content, the sign language translation including one or more of a gesture, a posture, or a facial expression conveying the emotional aspect.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2021Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Marc Brandon, Mark Arana
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Publication number: 20250021820Abstract: The present invention sets forth a technique for analyzing a generative output of a generative model. The technique includes determining a first latent representation of the generative output and a plurality of latent representations of a plurality of data samples associated with the generative model. The technique also includes computing a plurality of similarities between the first latent representation and the plurality of latent representations. In response to determining that a first similarity that is included in the plurality of similarities and computed between the first latent representation and a second latent representation included in the plurality of latent representations exceeds a threshold, the technique includes causing output to be generated that indicates a high similarity between the generative output and a first data sample that is included in the plurality of data samples and corresponds to the second latent representation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2024Publication date: January 16, 2025Inventors: Erika Varis DOGGETT, Mark ARANA, Sean David JENKINS, Charles Thurman TAPPAN, Romann Matthew WEBER, Jonathan Patrick WHITEHEAD
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Publication number: 20250008109Abstract: A system includes a hardware processor and a memory storing software code. The hardware processor executes the software code to receive video frames, generate a unique identifier for association with the video frames, and determine whether the unique identifier is stored. If the unique identifier is stored, the software code is further executed to identify an encoded media file associated with the unique identifier, the encoded media file including encoded video frames corresponding respectively to the received video frames. If the unique identifier is not stored, the software code is further executed to encode the video frames to produce the encoded media file, and store the unique identifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2023Publication date: January 2, 2025Inventors: Michael A. Radford, Mark Arana
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Publication number: 20240411840Abstract: A system includes a hardware processor and a system memory storing a software code. The hardware processor configured to execute the software code to receive a media content, receive a command to perform an action using the media content, and inspect the media content for a presence of a watermark. The hardware processor is further configured to execute the software code to identify, when inspecting reveals an absence of the watermark, a first business rule corresponding to the absence of the watermark, identify, when inspecting reveals the presence of the watermark, a second business rule corresponding to the presence of the watermark, and permit or prevent executing the command to perform the action in response to identifying the first business rule or the second business rule.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2023Publication date: December 12, 2024Inventors: Mark Arana, Anthony Stanley
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Patent number: 12124553Abstract: A system for performing authentication of content based on intrinsic attributes includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a content authentication software code. The hardware processor executes the content authentication software code to receive a content file including digital content and authentication data created based on a baseline version of the digital content, to generate validation data based on the digital content, to compare the validation data to the authentication data, and to identify the digital content as baseline digital content in response to determining that the validation data matches the authentication data based on the comparison. The hardware processor is also configured to execute the content authentication software code to identify the digital content as manipulated digital content in response to determining that the validation data does not match the authentication data based on the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2020Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Mark Arana, Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Edward C. Drake, Anthony M. Accardo
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Publication number: 20240259625Abstract: The present disclosure provides for systems and methods for customizing channel programming. The disclosed methods and systems utilize various data inputs, including affirmative user inputs, non-affirmative user characteristics, environmental data and/or temporal data to customize channel programming for a particular user or group of users. In a further aspect, the disclosed methods and systems provide for various social sharing of viewing experiences and channels by coordinating, broadcasting and/or sharing channels or viewing schedules with other users.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2024Publication date: August 1, 2024Inventors: Josiah Eatedali, Mark Arana
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Publication number: 20240223848Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for providing photosensitivity mitigation during display of content. In one implementation, such a system includes a hardware processor and a system memory storing a software application. The hardware processor is configured to execute the software application to, while content is being displayed on a primary display for viewing by a viewer, determine that a portion of the content that is about to be displayed on the primary display may trigger a photosensitivity reaction by the viewer, generate an alert to the viewer to switch viewing the content from the primary display to viewing the content from a secondary display, and display the portion of the content on the secondary display.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2023Publication date: July 4, 2024Inventor: Mark Arana
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Patent number: 11985371Abstract: The present disclosure provides for systems and methods for customizing channel programming. The disclosed methods and systems utilize various data inputs, including affirmative user inputs, non-affirmative user characteristics, environmental data and/or temporal data to customize channel programming for a particular user or group of users. In a further aspect, the disclosed methods and systems provide for various social sharing of viewing experiences and channels by coordinating, broadcasting and/or sharing channels or viewing schedules with other users.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2014Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Josiah Eatedali, Mark Arana
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Patent number: 11934412Abstract: There is provided a system including a memory and a processor configured to stream a media content for playback to a first media device for viewing by a first user, receive, while streaming the media content, an input from the first media device indicating an insertion point in the media content selected by the first user for inserting a contextual message provided by the first user, receive the contextual message from the first media device, stream the media content for playback to a second media device for viewing by a second user, and deliver the contextual message to the second media device for viewing by the second user when streaming the media content to the second media device reaches the insertion point.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Josiah Eatedali, Mark Arana
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Patent number: 11936940Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 3, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Mark Arana, Katherine S. Navarre, Michael A. Radford, Joseph S. Rice, Noel Brandon Vasquez
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Publication number: 20230368215Abstract: An example system includes a database having a plurality of data structures, each of the plurality of data structures associated with a different business rule and one or more provider identifications, and a processor configured to receive one or more consumer identifications and one of the one or more provider identifications, search the plurality of data structures for one or more data structures associated with the one of the one or more provider identifications to identify authorized data structures, in the authorized data structures, determine entitlements associated with the one or more consumer identifications to identify consumer entitlements, generate a list of the consumer entitlements, and transmit the list of the consumer entitlements in response to the receiving.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Inventors: Edward C. Drake, Mark Arana
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Patent number: 11711363Abstract: A system for authenticating digital contents includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a software code. According to one implementation, the hardware processor executes the software code to receive digital content, identify an image of a person depicted in the digital content, determine an ear shape parameter of the person depicted in the image, determine another biometric parameter of the person depicted in the image, and calculate a ratio of the ear shape parameter of the person depicted in the image to the biometric parameter of the person depicted in the image. The hardware processor is also configured to execute the software code to perform a comparison of the calculated ratio with a predetermined value, and determine whether the person depicted in the image is an authentic depiction of the person based on the comparison of the calculated ratio with the predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2022Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Edward C. Drake, Anthony M. Accardo, Mark Arana
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Patent number: 11700342Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamically and automatically generating digital watermarks are provided. Watermark payloads utilized in generating the digital watermarks are altered based upon changing conditions, such as environmental characteristics associated with playback or distribution of media content. Changing conditions may also encompass a change in the distribution/presentation chain of devices associated with the playback or distribution of the media content.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2021Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Mark Arana, Leon Silverman
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Patent number: 11683153Abstract: There is provided a method including receiving a playback system identifier corresponding to a playback system, generating a blockchain corresponding to a content identifier identifying a content, wherein the blockchain is uniquely associated with the content identifier, establishing, in the blockchain, a block corresponding to the playback system identifier, sending an encrypted version of the content to the playback system, and in response to one or more updates to the blockchain by the playback system, providing a content encryption key to the playback system for decrypting the encrypted version of the content.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Artin Nazarian, Mark Arana, Derek Prestegard
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Publication number: 20230156238Abstract: A method, comprises monitoring a encoding process of a source video file performed by an encoder; obtaining an encoding decision parameter used to encode a picture of the source video file during the encoding process; comparing the encoding decision parameter to a threshold; based on the step of comparing, identifying the picture as a candidate picture for a visual defect or coding error; and storing a timestamp of the candidate picture.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2023Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Kevin Liao, Jared McPhillen, Mark Arana
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Publication number: 20230033809Abstract: According to one implementation, an augmented reality image generation system includes a display, and 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 camera image depicting one or more real-world object(s), and to identify one or more reference point(s) corresponding to the camera image, each of the reference point(s) having a predetermined real-world location. The software code further maps the real-world object(s) to their respective real-world location(s) based on the predetermined real-world location(s) of the reference point(s), merges the camera image with a virtual object to generate an augmented reality image including the real-world object(s) and the virtual object, and renders the augmented reality image on the display. The location of the virtual object in the augmented reality image is determined based on the real-world location(s) of the real-world object(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Michael P. Goslin, Steven M. Chapman, Mark Arana
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Patent number: 11553211Abstract: A method, comprises monitoring a encoding process of a source video file performed by an encoder; obtaining an encoding decision parameter used to encode a picture of the source video file during the encoding process; comparing the encoding decision parameter to a threshold; based on the step of comparing, identifying the picture as a candidate picture for a visual defect or coding error; and storing a timestamp of the candidate picture.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2013Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Liao, Jared McPhillen, Mark Arana
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Publication number: 20220417489Abstract: The disclosure is directed a method including capturing image data of a real-world environment at a first location and a second location different than the first location. The image data includes a plurality of intersecting image data points captured at both the first location and the second location, and a representation of an area occluded by an obstacle from a point of view of a user and; generating a synthesized field of view (“FOV”) that includes the plurality of intersecting image data points such that the synthesized FOV includes an unobstructed view of the area occluded by the obstacle from the point of view of the user; and rendering the synthesized FOV as a visual display.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Steven CHAPMAN, Mark ARANA, Michael GOSLIN, Joseph POPP, Mehul PATEL
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Patent number: 11501498Abstract: According to one implementation, an augmented reality image generation system includes a display, and 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 camera image depicting one or more real-world object(s), and to identify one or more reference point(s) corresponding to the camera image, each of the reference point(s) having a predetermined real-world location. The software code further maps the real-world object(s) to their respective real-world location(s) based on the predetermined real-world location(s) of the reference point(s), merges the camera image with a virtual object to generate an augmented reality image including the real-world object(s) and the virtual object, and renders the augmented reality image on the display. The location of the virtual object in the augmented reality image is determined based on the real-world location(s) of the real-world object(s).Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2018Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Michael P. Goslin, Steven M. Chapman, Mark Arana