Patents by Inventor Michael Bruza

Michael Bruza 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).

  • Publication number: 20260075293
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosed technology provide solutions for dynamically generating media content with an animated background based on contextual data. An example method can include receiving first content. Additionally, the method can include generating an animated background including one or more items associated with the first content based on context information associated with the first content. Moreover, the method can include, placing the media content within the animated background. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2025
    Publication date: March 12, 2026
    Inventors: Mehul Sanghavi, Michael Bruza, Saket Kumar, Matthieu Chamik
  • Patent number: 12506937
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosed technology provide solutions for dynamically generating media content with an animated background based on contextual data. An example method can include receiving media content including a sequence of video frames. The method can include steps for determining a context associated with the media content and generating an animated background based on the context associated with the media content. In some examples, the animated background may include one or more items. The method can further include placing the media content within the animated background to generate a customized video for playback on a user device. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2025
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: Mehul Sanghavi, Michael Bruza, Saket Kumar, Matthieu Chamik
  • Publication number: 20250280182
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosed technology provide solutions for dynamically generating media content with an animated background based on contextual data. An example method can include receiving media content including a sequence of video frames. The method can include steps for determining a context associated with the media content and generating an animated background based on the context associated with the media content. In some examples, the animated background may include one or more items. The method can further include placing the media content within the animated background to generate a customized video for playback on a user device. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2024
    Publication date: September 4, 2025
    Inventors: Mehul Sanghavi, Michael Bruza, Saket Kumar, Matthieu Chamik
  • Patent number: 10621223
    Abstract: Increasingly, children are consuming digital content on computers, laptops, tablets, and even smartphones. The sheer volume of content available to children can be daunting for parents to manage and filter for their children. Primitive filtering mechanisms based on a target audience age can be used to eliminate some content based on a child's chronological age. However, children develop at different rates so that even children of the same chronological age can have different developmental stages and so have different preferences for content they consume. Systems and methods described herein provide children with access to developmental stage-appropriate content in a developmental stage-appropriate user interface. The developmental stage-appropriate interface includes representations of the content that are developmental stage-appropriate and surrounding elements that are also developmental stage-appropriate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: NETFLIX, INC.
    Inventors: Todd Scot Yellin, Michael Bruza
  • Publication number: 20160012048
    Abstract: Increasingly, children are consuming digital content on computers, laptops, tablets, and even smartphones. The sheer volume of content available to children can be daunting for parents to manage and filter for their children. Primitive filtering mechanisms based on a target audience age can be used to eliminate some content based on a child's chronological age. However, children develop at different rates so that even children of the same chronological age can have different developmental stages and so have different preferences for content they consume. Systems and methods described herein provide children with access to developmental stage-appropriate content in a developmental stage-appropriate user interface. The developmental stage-appropriate interface includes representations of the content that are developmental stage-appropriate and surrounding elements that are also developmental stage-appropriate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Todd Scot Yellin, Michael Bruza