Patents by Inventor Miquel Angel FARRÉ GUIU

Miquel Angel FARRÉ GUIU 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: 20220343020
    Abstract: A system includes a computing platform having processing hardware, and a system memory storing software code and a machine learning (ML) model. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to receive from a client, a request for a dataset, the request identifying a content type of the dataset, obtain the dataset having the content type, and select, based on the content type, an anonymization technique for the dataset, the anonymization technique selected so as to render at least one feature included in the dataset recognizable but unidentifiable. The processing hardware is further configured to execute the software code to anonymize, using the ML model and the selected anonymization technique, the at least one feature included in the dataset, and to output to the client, in response to the request, an anonymized dataset including the at least one anonymized feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Pablo Pernias, Marc Junyent Martin
  • Patent number: 11482004
    Abstract: A video content matching system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a software code. When executed, the software code obtains a reference digital profile of a reference video segment, obtains a target digital profile of target video content, and compares the reference and target digital profiles to detect a candidate video segment of the target video content for matching to the reference video segment. The software code also frame aligns reference video frames of the reference video segment with corresponding candidate video frames of the candidate video segment to provide frame aligned video frame pairs, pixel aligns the frame aligned video frame pairs to produce frame and pixel aligned video frame pairs, and identifies, using the frame and pixel aligned video frame pairs, the candidate video segment as a matching video segment or a non-matching video segment for the reference video segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Pablo Pernias, Albert Aparicio Isarn, Marc Junyent Martin
  • Publication number: 20220292116
    Abstract: A system includes a computing platform having processing hardware and a memory storing a software code. The processing hardware executes the software code to receive a dataset including at least some data samples having multiple metadata labels, and identify a partitioning constraint and a partitioning of the dataset into data subsets. The software code also executed obtains, for each metadata label, a desired distribution ratio based on the number of the data subsets and a total number of instances that each metadata label has been applied to the data samples, aggregates, using the partitioning constraint, the data samples into data sample groups, assigns, using the partitioning constraint and the desired distribution ratio for each of the metadata labels, each of the data sample groups to one of the data subsets, wherein each of the data subsets are unique, and trains, using one of the data subsets, a machine learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Marc Junyent Martin, Miquel Angel Farre Guiu
  • Patent number: 11425120
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Edward C. Drake, Anthony M. Accardo, Mark Arana
  • Publication number: 20220245554
    Abstract: According to one implementation, a tagging performance evaluation system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a software code. The hardware processor is configured to execute the software code to receive annotation data identifying content, annotation tags applied to the content, and one or more correction(s) to the annotation tags, to perform, using the annotation data, at least one of an evaluation of a tagging process resulting in application of the annotation tags to the content or an assessment of a correction process resulting in the correction(s), and to identify, based on the at least one of the evaluation or the assessment, one or more parameters for improving at least one of the tagging process or the correction process. At least one of the evaluation or the assessment is performed using a machine learning model of the tagging performance evaluation system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Marcel Porta Valles, Marc Junyent Martin, Jordi Badia Pujol, Melina Ovanessian
  • Patent number: 11403369
    Abstract: A system for securing a content processing pipeline includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a software code. The hardware processor executes the software code to insert a synthesized test image configured to activate one or more neurons of a malicious neural network into a content stream, provide the content stream as an input stream to a first processing node of the pipeline, and receive an output stream including a post-processed test image. The hardware processor further executes the software code to compare the post-processed test image in the output with an expected image corresponding to the synthesized test image, and to validate at least one portion of the pipeline as secure when the post-processed test image in the output matches the expected image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Edward C. Drake, Anthony M. Accardo, Mark Arana
  • Patent number: 11386664
    Abstract: A tunable signal sampling system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a software code that when executed receives a communications signal, identifies data partitions included in the communications signal, performs, using a first predetermined metric, a first set of comparisons each comparing a different sequential pair of the data partitions with each other, and selects, based on the first set of comparisons, a subset of the data partitions as candidate sample partitions of the communications signal. The software code also determines multiple default sample partitions of the communications signal, performs, using a second predetermined metric, a second set of comparisons each comparing a different one of the default sample partitions with a respective one of the candidate sample partitions, and extracts, using a predetermined weighting factor applied to the results of the second set of comparisons, a sample of the communications signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Pablo Pernias, Marc Junyent Martin, Albert Aparicio Isarn
  • Patent number: 11354894
    Abstract: According to one implementation, a system for automating inferential content annotation includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a software code including a set of rules trained to annotate content inferentially. The hardware processor executes the software code to utilize one or more feature analyzer(s) to apply labels to features detected in the content, access one or more knowledge base(s) to validate at least one of the applied labels, and to obtain, from the knowledge base(s), descriptive data linked to the validated label(s). The software code then infers, using the set of rules, one or more label(s) for the content based on the validated label(s) and the descriptive data, and outputs tags for annotating the content, where the tags include the validated label(s) and the inferred label(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Matthew C. Petrillo, Monica Alfaro Vendrell, Daniel Fojo, Albert Aparicio Isarn, Francesc Josep Guitart Bravo, Jordi Badia Pujol, Marc Junyent Martin, Anthony M. Accardo
  • Publication number: 20220156978
    Abstract: A method includes generating a delicate area map by performing a morphological function on a portion of a received first image and identifying a plurality of edges in the first image, the plurality of edges comprising a plurality of pixels. The method also includes verifying a first contrast metric for a first subset of pixels that are in the plurality of pixels but not in the delicate area map, verifying a second contrast metric for a second subset of pixels that are in the plurality of pixels and in the delicate area map, and generating a validation result based on the verifying of the first contrast metric and the verifying of the second contrast metric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Miquel Angel FARRÉ GUIU, Marc JUNYENT MARTIN, Pablo PERNIAS
  • Publication number: 20220156900
    Abstract: A method includes producing a filter mask based on a blur mask and a saliency mask and identifying locations of a plurality of bounding boxes of a plurality of objects of interest in a received image. The method also includes applying the filter mask to the received image and to the locations of the plurality of bounding boxes in the received image to remove at least one object of interest from consideration. The method further includes performing a comparison of a location of a bounding box of the plurality of bounding boxes of an object of interest remaining in consideration to a predetermined safe region of the received image and generating a validation result based on the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Miquel Angel FARRÉ GUIU, Marc JUNYENT MARTIN, Pablo PERNIAS
  • Patent number: 11314706
    Abstract: A metadata aggregation system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a software code including a trained entity matching predictive model trained using training data obtained from a reference database. The hardware processor executes the software code to obtain metadata inputs from multiple sources, conform the metadata inputs to a common format, match, using the trained entity matching predictive model, at least some of the conformed metadata inputs to the same entity, and determine, using the trained entity matching predictive model, a confidence score for each match. The software code further sends a request to one or more human editor(s) for confirmation of each match having a confidence score greater than a first threshold and less than a second threshold, and updates the reference database, in response to receiving a confirmation that at least one match is a confirmed match, to include the confirmed match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher C. Stoafer, Jordi Badia Pujol, Francesc Josep Guitart Bravo, Marc Junyent Martin, Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Calvin Lawson, Erick L. Luerken
  • Publication number: 20220108113
    Abstract: A tunable signal sampling system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a software code that when executed receives a communications signal, identifies data partitions included in the communications signal, performs, using a first predetermined metric, a first set of comparisons each comparing a different sequential pair of the data partitions with each other, and selects, based on the first set of comparisons, a subset of the data partitions as candidate sample partitions of the communications signal. The software code also determines multiple default sample partitions of the communications signal, performs, using a second predetermined metric, a second set of comparisons each comparing a different one of the default sample partitions with a respective one of the candidate sample partitions, and extracts, using a predetermined weighting factor applied to the results of the second set of comparisons, a sample of the communications signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Pablo Pernias, Marc Junyent Martin, Albert Aparicio Isarn
  • Patent number: 11288097
    Abstract: An automated hardware resource optimization system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a software code. The hardware processor is configured to execute the software code to identify computing hardware for hosting a neural network based application, determine, based on a first performance parameter of the computing hardware, a batch size for performing data processing using the neural network based application, and tune, using a data batch having the determined batch size, a second performance parameter of the computing hardware to enable substantially continuous loading of its hardware processor memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Marc Junyent Martin, Jordi Badia Pujol
  • Patent number: 11263257
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the invention disclosed herein provide techniques for automatically exposing 3D production assets to an editorial workstation in a content creation pipeline. A production asset management system transmits, to an editorial workstation, a first content library that includes first metadata associated with a 3D production asset that is included in an editorial cut. The first metadata allows a user to see what versions of the 3D production asset are available for incorporation into the editorial cut. The production asset management system retrieves second metadata associated with a second version of the 3D production asset from a production database. The production asset management system retrieves, based on the second metadata, the second version of the 3D production asset from the production database. The production asset management system transmits the second version of the 3D production asset to the editorial workstation for incorporation into the editorial cut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Breymann, Evan A. Binder, Anthony M. Accardo, Katharine S. Navarre, Avner Swerdlow, Miquel Angel Farre Guiu
  • Publication number: 20220058196
    Abstract: A metadata aggregation system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a software code including a trained entity matching predictive model trained using training data obtained from a reference database. The hardware processor executes the software code to obtain metadata inputs from multiple sources, conform the metadata inputs to a common format, match, using the trained entity matching predictive model, at least some of the conformed metadata inputs to the same entity, and determine, using the trained entity matching predictive model, a confidence score for each match. The software code further sends a request to one or more human editor(s) for confirmation of each match having a confidence score greater than a first threshold and less than a second threshold, and updates the reference database, in response to receiving a confirmation that at least one match is a confirmed match, to include the confirmed match.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher C. Stoafer, Jordi Badia Pujol, Francesc Josep Guitart Bravo, Marc Junyent Martin, Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Calvin Lawson, Erick L. Luerken
  • Publication number: 20220036092
    Abstract: A video content matching system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a software code. When executed, the software code obtains a reference digital profile of a reference video segment, obtains a target digital profile of target video content, and compares the reference and target digital profiles to detect a candidate video segment of the target video content for matching to the reference video segment. The software code also frame aligns reference video frames of the reference video segment with corresponding candidate video frames of the candidate video segment to provide frame aligned video frame pairs, pixel aligns the frame aligned video frame pairs to produce frame and pixel aligned video frame pairs, and identifies, using the frame and pixel aligned video frame pairs, the candidate video segment as a matching video segment or a non-matching video segment for the reference video segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Pablo Pernias, Albert Aparicio Isarn, Marc Junyent Martin
  • Publication number: 20210389989
    Abstract: An automated hardware resource optimization system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a software code. The hardware processor is configured to execute the software code to identify computing hardware for hosting a neural network based application, determine, based on a first performance parameter of the computing hardware, a batch size for performing data processing using the neural network based application, and tune, using a data batch having the determined batch size, a second performance parameter of the computing hardware to enable substantially continuous loading of its hardware processor memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Marc Junyent Martin, Jordi Badia Pujol
  • Patent number: 11157777
    Abstract: According to one implementation, a quality control (QC) system for annotated content includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing an annotation culling software code. The hardware processor executes the annotation culling software code to receive multiple content sets annotated by an automated content classification engine, and obtain evaluations of the annotations applied by the automated content classification engine to the content sets. The hardware processor further executes the annotation culling software code to identify a sample size of the content sets for automated QC analysis of the annotations applied by the automated content classification engine, and cull the annotations applied by the automated content classification engine based on the evaluations when the number of annotated content sets equals the identified sample size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Matthew C. Petrillo, Marc Junyent Martin, Anthony M. Accardo, Avner Swerdlow, Monica Alfaro Vendrell
  • Publication number: 20210250346
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Miquel Angel Farre Guiu, Edward C. Drake, Anthony M. Accardo, Mark Arana
  • 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