DISTRIBUTION CHANNEL USING AUDIO/VISUAL RECOGNITION
Granted: October 31, 2019
Application Number:
20190333136
Systems and methods are provided for providing a platform to provide virtual storefronts to consumers. Environmental elements are associated with specific consumer services on computer server. A user in the environment takes audio or visual recordings of an environmental element and uploads the recordings to the server. The server determines the appropriate consumer service associated with the recorded environmental element and provides the user with a reference to the service.…
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND TAGGING ASSETS WITHIN AN AV FILE
Granted: October 31, 2019
Application Number:
20190332829
A system for identifying, tagging, and displaying one or more assets within an audio visual (AV) file includes an asset tagging server, an asset tag acquisition device, and a database, wherein the asset tag acquisition device includes an asset identification engine configured to receive an asset identification data set and generate an asset tag data file that includes an asset tag corresponding to each asset. The asset tagging server is configured to receive, from an AV capture device,…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAINTAINING A CONVERSATION
Granted: October 17, 2019
Application Number:
20190319898
Systems and methods for an interactive communications system capable of generating a response to conversational input are provided. The interactive communications system analyzes the conversational input to determine relevant topics of discussion. The interactive communications system further determines which of the relevant topics of discussion can potentially lead to an unwanted end to a conversation. The interactive communications system redirects the conversation by providing…
DENOISING MONTE CARLO RENDERINGS USING NEURAL NETWORKS WITH ASYMMETRIC LOSS
Granted: October 3, 2019
Application Number:
20190304069
A modular architecture is provided for denoising Monte Carlo renderings using neural networks. The temporal approach extracts and combines feature representations from neighboring frames rather than building a temporal context using recurrent connections. A multiscale architecture includes separate single-frame or temporal denoising modules for individual scales, and one or more scale compositor neural networks configured to adaptively blend individual scales. An error-predicting module…
MULTI-SCALE ARCHITECTURE OF DENOISING MONTE CARLO RENDERINGS USING NEURAL NETWORKS
Granted: October 3, 2019
Application Number:
20190304068
A modular architecture is provided for denoising Monte Carlo renderings using neural networks. The temporal approach extracts and combines feature representations from neighboring frames rather than building a temporal context using recurrent connections. A multiscale architecture includes separate single-frame or temporal denoising modules for individual scales, and one or more scale compositor neural networks configured to adaptively blend individual scales. An error-predicting module…
TEMPORAL TECHNIQUES OF DENOISING MONTE CARLO RENDERINGS USING NEURAL NETWORKS
Granted: October 3, 2019
Application Number:
20190304067
A modular architecture is provided for denoising Monte Carlo renderings using neural networks. The temporal approach extracts and combines feature representations from neighboring frames rather than building a temporal context using recurrent connections. A multiscale architecture includes separate single-frame or temporal denoising modules for individual scales, and one or more scale compositor neural networks configured to adaptively blend individual scales. An error-predicting module…
METHOD FOR DAMPENING PROJECTOR VIBRATION
Granted: October 3, 2019
Application Number:
20190302472
The disclosure is directed toward stabilizing an image projected by a projector in an environment including vibrations or other movements that displace the projected image. In one set of implementations, an image projected by a projector may be stabilized by using an image stabilization system that detects a displacement of the projector from an equilibrium position and controls an optical element of the projector to offset the displacement. In an additional set of implementations, an…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING OBJECT FEATURES VIA AN AR DEVICE
Granted: September 12, 2019
Application Number:
20190281194
Systems and methods for displaying object features via an AR device are disclosed. The method may include receiving, from a transmitter, a signal from an object on a movie set. The signal may specify object data. The object may be a prop. The object data may specify one or more features corresponding to the prop. The method may include generating, with the one or more physical computer processors and the one or more AR components, a representation of the one or more features using visual…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING OBJECTS IN A FIELD OF VIEW
Granted: September 12, 2019
Application Number:
20190278995
Systems and methods for tracking objects in a field of view are disclosed. In one embodiment a method may include obtaining, from the non-transient electronic storage, object data. The object data may include a position of one or more objects as a function of time in a field of view. The method may include generating, with the one or more physical computer processors and the one or more AR components, a first virtual object to depict at least one or more of the object data of a first…
AERIAL IMAGING HIGH-ACCURACY SCALE CALIBRATION
Granted: September 5, 2019
Application Number:
20190272666
The disclosure provides for a system of markers and methods of using the system of markers to provide a precise scene scale reference for captured aerial images. Each of the markers may include one or more pairs of aligned collimated light emitters, where each pair of light emitters is configured to emit two light beams that converge at a known distance from the marker. When two or more markers are used, the system of markers may be aligned in a unique physical orientation to form a…
VARIABLE RESOLUTION RECOGNITION
Granted: August 8, 2019
Application Number:
20190244018
Systems and methods are described for dynamically adjusting an amount of retrieved recognition data based on the needs of a show, experience, or other event where participants are recognized. The retrieved recognition data may be deleted once it is no longer needed for the event. Recognition data retrieval is limited to just what is needed for the particular task, minimizing the uniqueness of any retrieved recognition data to respect participant privacy while providing an enhanced…
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING IMPROVED AUGMENTED REALITY CONTENT
Granted: June 27, 2019
Application Number:
20190197781
Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for generating improved AR content. An electronic device includes circuitry coupled to a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the circuitry to obtain frame data for a frame captured using a camera. The frame data includes a level of focus for one or more frame objects in the frame. The circuitry is caused to associate an augmented reality object with at least one of the one or more frame objects. The circuitry is caused to…
CONVERSATIONAL LANGUAGE AND INFORMATIONAL RESPONSE SYSTEMS AND METHODS
Granted: June 27, 2019
Application Number:
20190197106
Systems and methods for a computer-based, interactive communications system capable of generating a response to a human language input are provided. The computer-based, interactive communications systems includes a plurality of response models that may be selected to process one or more keywords extracted from the human language input. The plurality of response models may include at least one conversational response model and at least one informational response model, so that the…
DIRECTED WIND EFFECT FOR AR/VR EXPERIENCE
Granted: June 27, 2019
Application Number:
20190192965
An air flow generator may be implemented on an augmented reality (AR) or virtual reality (VR) controller or head-mounted display (HMD) through which an AR or VR experience is presented. Based on content upon which the AR or VR experience is based, air flow effects can be provided by the air flow generator. In particular, desired air flow effect parameters based on or obtained from the content, can be used to enhance the AR or VR experience through generating air flow directed at a user…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCENE CATEGORIZATION
Granted: June 13, 2019
Application Number:
20190182486
Systems and methods are provided for manually or automatically identifying delineating scenes in media content. Scene categorization parameters setting forth thematic and/or cinematic criteria are used to analyze frames or groups of pictures (GOPs) making up the media content. Those frames or GOPs having one or more characteristics that meet the thematic and/or cinematic criteria may be deemed to belong or be a part of a particular scene in the media content. Downstream applications or…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROFILE BASED MEDIA SEGMENT RENDERING
Granted: June 13, 2019
Application Number:
20190182451
Systems and methods are provided for transcoding media content in accordance with thematic and/or cinematic characteristics of scenes. In particular, compression techniques may be selected to optimize compression of scenes based on their thematic and/cinematic characteristics. Scene boundary identifiers, such as scene in and out points may be identified, and the corresponding thematic and/or cinematic characteristic meta-data can be sent to a transcoder for transcoding. In this way, the…
HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE ENHANCEMENT AUTHORIZATION
Granted: June 13, 2019
Application Number:
20190182448
Systems and methods for selectively enabling enhanced high dynamic range (HDR) metadata for enhanced HDR playback of media content stored on a media disc are provided. Media discs may be authored with a base layer media content in accordance with a non-enhanced HDR media profile. Media discs may also include enhanced HDR metadata. In order to enable the use of the enhanced HDR metadata, a media player in which the media disc is inserted for playback may first seek authorization from a…
AUTOMATED STORYBOARDING BASED ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND 2D/3D PRE-VISUALIZATION
Granted: May 23, 2019
Application Number:
20190155829
Systems and methods are provided for a workflow framework that scriptwriters can utilize when developing scripts. A script can be parsed to identify one or more elements in a script, and various visual representations of the one or more elements and/or a scene characterized in the script can be automatically generated. A user may develop or edit the script which can be presented in a visual and temporal manner. Information parsed from the script can be stored in basic information…
FOCAL LENGTH COMPENSATED AUGMENTED REALITY
Granted: May 9, 2019
Application Number:
20190139281
The present disclosure is directed to presenting a more realistic augmented reality view on a video see-through display of a device by configuring the device such that the displayed image of the real world substantially matches what would be perceived by the user if the display were not present. This may be implemented by determining one or more of: a distance from the user's eyes to the display of the device, and an angular offset between the optical axis of a rear camera of the device…
ENABLING UNDO ON SCRUBBER/SEEKBAR UI WIDGETS
Granted: April 18, 2019
Application Number:
20190114064
Implementations of the disclosure describe systems and methods for a user that interacts with an interface for playback/consumption of media content (e.g. video, audio, e-book text, etc.) to be accurately guided back to one or more positions on a scrubber. Current scrubber positions (e.g., timecodes) may be dynamically saved each time that a user interacts with the scrubber. Thereafter, the saved position may be used to help guide the user back to their previous position along the…
