Patents by Inventor Mark James Traynor
Mark James Traynor 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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Publication number: 20240054693Abstract: A system for an attraction includes a sensor configured to capture imagery of a real world environment and a control system communicatively coupled to the sensor. The control system is configured to receive the imagery captured by the sensor, identify a real world element of the imagery, generate image data that includes a virtual element that corresponds to the real world element, and transmit the image data for presentation in the attraction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Inventors: Jacob David Allinson, Mark James Traynor, Robert Michael Jordan, Thomas Owen Williams, Eric To Chan, Peter Carsillo
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Publication number: 20240013599Abstract: An autonomous vehicle locker comprises a controller including a memory storing instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions. The instructions are configured to cause the controller to associate an autonomous vehicle locker with a guest at a first location, receive an indication that guest items are within a storage compartment, secure the storage compartment based on the indication, instruct the autonomous vehicle locker to travel to a second location, identify the guest from a plurality of guests at the second location, and instruct the autonomous vehicle locker to unlock the storage compartment in response to identifying the guest.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Eric To Chan, Robert Michael Jordan, Howard Bruce Mall, JR., Mark James Traynor, Anthony Melo
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Publication number: 20230419726Abstract: An interactive portrait system includes a camera configured to capture imagery of an environment and a controller. The controller is configured to analyze the imagery to identify a guest in the environment, instruct an output device to provide an initial output to attempt to interact with the guest, and analyze the imagery to identify a behavior of the guest during the initial output, after the initial output, or both. The controller is also configured to evaluate the behavior of the guest using one or more artificial intelligence algorithms to determine whether the guest responded to the initial output. The controller is further configured to, in response to determining that the guest responded to the initial output, instruct the output device to provide an additional output to continue to attempt to interact with the guest.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Robert Michael Jordan, Anthony Melo, Angelo Pagliuca, Brandon David Burmette, John Adams, Jacob David Allinson, Eric To Chan, Mark James Traynor
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Publication number: 20230409986Abstract: The virtual queue system includes a virtual queue controller comprising a processor and a memory, wherein the memory stores instructions executable by the processor and is configured to receive a request, the request being associated with an individual guest, for a position in a virtual queue of an attraction, assign the individual guest to the position in the virtual queue in response to the request, receive ride schedule data for the attraction comprising information about a change in status of individual rides of the attraction, and determine a wait time for the individual guest for the attraction based at least on the position of the individual guest in the virtual queue, the ride schedule data, and historical guest throughput at the attraction. The virtual queue system is further configured to output a signal to a guest-associated device indicating the wait time for the attraction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Jeff Polk, Dave Derda, Thomas Martin Geraghty, Justin Michael Schwartz, Mark James Traynor
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Publication number: 20230364522Abstract: Systems and methods presented herein include one or more guest activity recognition devices configured to recognize activity of one or more guests within a physical environment of an amusement park. The system also includes one or more ride vehicles of a ride of the amusement park, each ride vehicle including an artificial intelligence entity management system configured to maintain one or more ride vehicle artificial intelligence entities of the ride vehicle based at least in part on the recognized activity of the one or more guests; and one or more features disposed on the ride vehicle and configured to be activated by the artificial intelligence entity management system to simulate the existence of the one or more ride vehicle artificial intelligence entities in accordance with one or more properties of the one or more ride vehicle artificial intelligence entities.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Inventors: Robert Michael Jordan, Mark James Traynor
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Publication number: 20230347257Abstract: An interactive system for an amusement park attraction includes one or more processors configured to identify a non-fungible token (NFT) possessed by a user within the amusement park attraction. The one or more processors are also configured to transform the NFT into a derivative of the NFT based on context data for the amusement park attraction. The one or more processors are further configured to instruct display of the derivative of the NFT on a display screen within the amusement park attraction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Robert Michael Jordan, Gabriella Farrisi, Gargi Deb, Kristen Elizabeth Tan, Matthew Donald Dailey, Taylor Doris May Harris, Mark James Traynor, Howard Bruce Mall, JR., Victor Alexander Lugo, Anthony Melo
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Publication number: 20230341928Abstract: A ride system may include a ride vehicle that supports a passenger and an attention tracker to determine a current direction of attention of the passenger. The ride system may also include a control system for maintaining an environment of the passenger. Maintaining the environment may include determining a set of content to be incorporated into the environment based at least in part on the current direction of attention.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2022Publication date: October 26, 2023Inventors: Mark James Traynor, Robert Michael Jordan, Patrick John Goergen, David Smith
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Publication number: 20230321552Abstract: Systems and methods presented herein include ride vehicles configured to locally store player state caches. For example, ride vehicles may include an on-board ride and game control sub-system configured to control local features of a ride and game control system associated with an amusement park ride system (e.g., that occur locally on the ride vehicles), to locally cache player state data for riders of the ride vehicles during ride cycles of the ride vehicles, and to synchronize the locally-cached player state data with global player state data maintained by an off-board ride and game control sub-system after the ride cycles of the ride vehicles.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Robert Michael Jordan, Mark James Traynor
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Patent number: 11775883Abstract: The virtual queue system includes a virtual queue controller comprising a processor and a memory, wherein the memory stores instructions executable by the processor and is configured to receive a request, the request being associated with an individual guest, for a position in a virtual queue of an attraction, assign the individual guest to the position in the virtual queue in response to the request, receive ride schedule data for the attraction comprising information about a change in status of individual rides of the attraction, and determine a wait time for the individual guest for the attraction based at least on the position of the individual guest in the virtual queue, the ride schedule data, and historical guest throughput at the attraction. The virtual queue system is further configured to output a signal to a guest-associated device indicating the wait time for the attraction.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Universal City Studios LLCInventors: Jeff Polk, Dave Derda, Thomas Martin Geraghty, Justin Michael Schwartz, Mark James Traynor
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Publication number: 20230215070Abstract: In an embodiment, a virtual reality ride system includes a display to present virtual reality image content to a first rider, an audio sensor to capture audio data associated with a second rider, and an image sensor to capture image data associated with the second rider. The virtual reality ride system also includes at least one processor communicatively coupled to the display and configured to (i) receive the audio data, the image data, or both, (ii) generate a virtual avatar corresponding to the second rider, wherein the virtual avatar includes a set of facial features, (iii) update the set of facial features based on the audio data, the image data, or both, and (iv) instruct the display to present the virtual reality image content including the virtual avatar and the updated set of facial features.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2023Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: Robert Michael Jordan, Mark James Traynor, Patrick John Goergen
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Publication number: 20230198936Abstract: Efficient two-way communications using broadband cellular technology is provided by adapting cellular components for end-to-end Internet Protocol (IP) addressable traffic. In this manner, the broadband cellular system may be efficiently transfer data over a flat network architecture using end-to-end IP traffic, bypassing features such as network address translation (NAT), tunnelling, and other LTE cellular carrier features.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Mark James Traynor, Robert Michael Jordan, Sean Fitzpatrick, Thomas Owen Williams, Patrick John Goergen
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Publication number: 20230182035Abstract: A three-dimensional display system includes a first display and a second display spaced apart from the first display having one or more light sources configured to emit light and to illuminate the first display, where the first display is at least partially transparent such that the second display is visible through the first display. The three-dimensional display system includes a special effect system disposed at least in part between the first display and the second display and is configured to be activated to cause a special effect to be visible through the first display. The three-dimensional display system includes a controller communicatively coupled to the first display, the second display, and the special effect system.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2023Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: Kaitlyn Marie Duffy, Mark James Traynor, Anthony Melo, Howard Bruce Mall, Yu Jen Lin, Nicholas Anthony Puglisi, Carin Harkins, Caitlin Berner, Samuel J. Knox, Shawn Wright, Suzanne Harris
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Publication number: 20230153707Abstract: A system includes a virtual queue controller configured to receive an indication of a reduced capacity event from an amusement park attraction, determine a reduction in capacity of the attraction, identify each guest having a return time in a virtual queue of the attraction that is affected by the reduced capacity event, remove guests having affected return times from the virtual queue, and generate a reaccommodation time slot for the guests removed from the virtual queue, select two or more updated return times within the reaccommodation time slot for each of the guests removed from the virtual queue, provide a notification to each guest removed from the virtual queue requesting guest input to select a single updated return time from the two or more updated return times, and return each guest to the virtual queue upon receiving a corresponding selection of the single updated return time.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2023Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Nicholas Linguanti, Casey Barreto, William Austin Kelly, Kyle P. Hanley, Mark James Traynor
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Patent number: 11590432Abstract: A three-dimensional display system includes a first display and a second display spaced apart from the first display having one or more light sources configured to emit light and to illuminate the first display, where the first display is at least partially transparent such that the second display is visible through the first display. The three-dimensional display system includes a special effect system disposed at least in part between the first display and the second display and is configured to be activated to cause a special effect to be visible through the first display. The three-dimensional display system includes a controller communicatively coupled to the first display, the second display, and the special effect system.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Universal City Studios LLCInventors: Kaitlyn Marie Duffy, Mark James Traynor, Anthony Melo, Howard Bruce Mall, Yu Jen Lin, Nicholas Anthony Puglisi, Carin Harkins, Caitlin Berner, Samuel J. Knox, Shawn Wright, Suzanne Harris
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Patent number: 11568333Abstract: A system includes a virtual queue controller configured to receive an indication of a reduced capacity event from an amusement park attraction, determine a reduction in capacity of the attraction, identify each guest having a return time in a virtual queue of the attraction that is affected by the reduced capacity event, remove guests having affected return times from the virtual queue, and generate a reaccommodation time slot for the guests removed from the virtual queue, select two or more updated return times within the reaccommodation time slot for each of the guests removed from the virtual queue, provide a notification to each guest removed from the virtual queue requesting guest input to select a single updated return time from the two or more updated return times, and return each guest to the virtual queue upon receiving a corresponding selection of the single updated return time.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Universal City Studios LLCInventors: Nicholas Linguanti, Casey Barreto, William Austin Kelly, Kyle P. Hanley, Mark James Traynor
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Publication number: 20220096951Abstract: A three-dimensional display system includes a first display and a second display spaced apart from the first display having one or more light sources configured to emit light and to illuminate the first display, where the first display is at least partially transparent such that the second display is visible through the first display. The three-dimensional display system includes a special effect system disposed at least in part between the first display and the second display and is configured to be activated to cause a special effect to be visible through the first display. The three-dimensional display system includes a controller communicatively coupled to the first display, the second display, and the special effect system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Kaitlyn Marie Duffy, Mark James Traynor, Anthony Melo, Howard Bruce Mall, Yu Jen Lin, Nicholas Anthony Puglisi, Carin Harkins, Caitlin Berner, Samuel J. Knox, Shawn Wright, Suzanne Harris
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Publication number: 20210271881Abstract: Systems and methods presented herein include a venue system that includes a guest recognition system configured to recognize one or more guests in a venue, and a guest experience analysis system configured to receive data relating to the recognized one or more guests from the guest recognition system, to generate guest experience information relating to the recognized one or more guests based at least in part on the received data relating to the recognized one or more guests, and to transmit the guest experience information relating to the recognized one or more guests to an augmented reality display device for display on an augmented reality display of the augmented reality display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2021Publication date: September 2, 2021Inventors: Mark James Traynor, David John-Louis Alter, Kyle Patrick Hanley, Jeffrey Lamar Polk, Brett James Conroy, Bonnie Jean Spivey
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Publication number: 20210166161Abstract: The virtual queue system includes a virtual queue controller comprising a processor and a memory, wherein the memory stores instructions executable by the processor and is configured to receive a request, the request being associated with an individual guest, for a position in a virtual queue of an attraction, assign the individual guest to the position in the virtual queue in response to the request, receive ride schedule data for the attraction comprising information about a change in status of individual rides of the attraction, and determine a wait time for the individual guest for the attraction based at least on the position of the individual guest in the virtual queue, the ride schedule data, and historical guest throughput at the attraction. The virtual queue system is further configured to output a signal to a guest-associated device indicating the wait time for the attraction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2021Publication date: June 3, 2021Inventors: Jeff Polk, Dave Derda, Thomas Martin Geraghty, Justin Michael Schwartz, Mark James Traynor
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Patent number: 10943188Abstract: The virtual queue system includes a virtual queue controller comprising a processor and a memory, wherein the memory stores instructions executable by the processor and is configured to receive a request, the request being associated with an individual guest, for a position in a virtual queue of an attraction, assign the individual guest to the position in the virtual queue in response to the request, receive ride schedule data for the attraction comprising information about a change in status of individual rides of the attraction, and determine a wait time for the individual guest for the attraction based at least on the position of the individual guest in the virtual queue, the ride schedule data, and historical guest throughput at the attraction. The virtual queue system is further configured to output a signal to a guest-associated device indicating the wait time for the attraction.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Universal City Studios LLCInventors: Jeff Polk, Dave Derda, Thomas Martin Geraghty, Justin Michael Schwartz, Mark James Traynor
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Publication number: 20200410412Abstract: A system includes a virtual queue controller configured to receive an indication of a reduced capacity event from an amusement park attraction, determine a reduction in capacity of the attraction, identify each guest having a return time in a virtual queue of the attraction that is affected by the reduced capacity event, remove guests having affected return times from the virtual queue, and generate a reaccommodation time slot for the guests removed from the virtual queue, select two or more updated return times within the reaccommodation time slot for each of the guests removed from the virtual queue, provide a notification to each guest removed from the virtual queue requesting guest input to select a single updated return time from the two or more updated return times, and return each guest to the virtual queue upon receiving a corresponding selection of the single updated return time.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2019Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Nicholas Linguanti, Casey Barreto, William Austin Kelly, Kyle P. Hanley, Mark James Traynor