System and Method for Playsets Using Tracked Objects and Corresponding Virtual Worlds
Granted: August 4, 2016
Application Number:
20160220896
There is provided a system and method for playsets using tracked objects and corresponding virtual worlds. There is provided an object for use with a physical environment and connectable to a virtual world corresponding to the physical environment, the object including a processor and a plurality of sensors including a position sensor. The processor is configured to establish a first connection with the virtual world, wherein the virtual world contains a virtual object corresponding to…
AUDIENCE INTERACTION PROJECTION SYSTEM
Granted: July 14, 2016
Application Number:
20160201888
A process and system capture infrared light that is reflected or emitted from a device to precisely locate the device. The process and system project visible light from a light source toward the device such that the light is precisely targeted at the device. Preferably the visible light passes through an atmosphere containing particulate matter rendering the visible light as a beam that appears to emanate from the device rather than from the light source.
ROBUST ARTIFICIAL FOLIAGE
Granted: July 14, 2016
Application Number:
20160198785
An apparatus comprises a wire mesh that is shaped according to an artificial foliage pattern. The wire mesh is coated with a coating to match a characteristic of the artificial foliage pattern. The coating fills in spaces between the wire mesh to produce a translucent structure in the spaces that filters light. The mesh size, mesh materials, and the type of coating, e.g., type of paint, are selected so that the coating fills in the spaces to produce a translucent structure that is thin…
System and Method for Synchronizing On-Air Commercial Programming with Interactive Applications
Granted: July 7, 2016
Application Number:
20160198212
There is provided a system and method for the synchronizing on-air commercial programming with interactive applications, providing interactive content synchronized with on-air television programming. There is provided a system comprising a client device with a display device and an input device and running a synchronization application. The client device receives digital data transmitted from a server, and transmits user feedback information generated from user interactions with the…
System and Method for Real-Time Location-Based Advertisement Insertion into Online Content
Granted: June 23, 2016
Application Number:
20160182970
There is provided a media content server for inserting a location-based advertisement into an online media content. The media content server comprises a memory including an online media content for online access; a processor configured to receive a request from a client for the online media content; determine an IP address of the client based on the request; map the IP address to a local advertisement server serving an area corresponding to the IP address; request a local advertisement…
System and Method for Associating a Universal User Identification and a Domain Specific User Identification
Granted: June 23, 2016
Application Number:
20160182521
There is presented a system and method for associating a domain transcendent identification (ID) of a user and a domain specific ID of the user, the system comprising an ID association server accessible by a plurality of secure domains over a network. The system also includes an ID associator application that when executed by ID association server is configured to receive a domain specific ID that associates the user to the secure domain, enter the domain specific ID in a domain…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATING SKY LIGHT PROBES FOR OUTDOOR IMAGES
Granted: May 26, 2016
Application Number:
20160150143
Methods and systems for estimating HDR sky light probes for outdoor images are disclosed. A precaptured sky light probe database is leveraged. The database includes a plurality of HDR sky light probes captured under a plurality of different illumination conditions. A HDR sky light probe is estimated from an outdoor image by fitting a three dimensional model to an object of interest in the image and solving an inverse optimization lighting problem for the 3D model where the space of…
SIMULATION AND SKINNING OF HETEROGENEOUS TEXTURE DETAIL DEFORMATION
Granted: May 12, 2016
Application Number:
20160133040
A method is disclosed for reducing distortions introduced by deformation of a surface with an existing parameterization. In an exemplary embodiment, the method comprises receiving a rest pose mesh comprising a plurality of faces, a rigidity map corresponding to the rest pose mesh, and a deformed pose mesh; using the rigidity map to generate a simulation grid on the rest pose mesh, the simulation grid comprising a plurality of cells; defining a set of constraints on the simulation grid,…
Content Based Partitioning of Digital Media Content
Granted: May 12, 2016
Application Number:
20160134905
There is provided a content based partitioning system and a method for use in performing content based partitioning of digital media content. In one implementation, such a content based partitioning system includes a system processor, a system memory, and a content based partitioning module stored in the system memory. The content based partitioning module, under control of the system processor, is configured to receive encoded digital media content corresponding to the digital media…
System and Method for Providing Media Content
Granted: May 12, 2016
Application Number:
20160134678
There is presented a system for providing a content stored on a medium, the system comprising a media presentation module including a processor. The processor is configured to retrieve a content payload including a digital content from a data structure residing on the medium, and to retrieve a content-describing metadata stored separately from the digital content, from the data structure. The content-describing metadata provide content information including media encoding information for…
AIR DELIVERED SPECIAL EFFECTS
Granted: May 12, 2016
Application Number:
20160129363
A discharge platform comprises an air propulsion mechanism that propels the discharge platform through the air. The discharge platform also comprises a special effect storage device that stores a special effect and is operably connected to the discharge platform. Further, the discharge platform comprises a processor. In addition, the discharge platform comprises an air delivery special effect mechanism that discharges a special effect from the special effect storage device toward a…
Game Pieces for Use with Touch Screen Devices and Related Methods
Granted: May 5, 2016
Application Number:
20160121207
There is provided a system and method for communicating with a first peripheral device, of a plurality of peripheral devices, using a touch-sensitive system that has a processor and a touch surface. According to an exemplary embodiment, a method includes detecting, using the processor, a plurality of touches on the touch surface of the touch-sensitive system that are made by the first peripheral device. The method further includes identifying, using the processor, the first peripheral…
DESCRIPTIVE METADATA EXTRACTION AND LINKAGE WITH EDITORIAL CONTENT
Granted: April 28, 2016
Application Number:
20160119655
Embodiments provide techniques for distributing supplemental content based on content entities within video content. Embodiments include analyzing video data to identify a known content entity within two or more frames of the video data. For each of the two or more frames, a region of pixels within the respective frame is determined that corresponds to the known content entity. Embodiments further include determining supplemental content corresponding to the known content entity. A…
Measuring User Engagement During Presentation of Media Content
Granted: April 14, 2016
Application Number:
20160105716
There is provided a method including rendering a gating media content segment presentation, providing a user interface to a user viewing the gating media content segment presentation, and determining two user interaction indices, including an under-threshold index and an over-threshold index, associated with the gating media content segment presentation. The method determines the under-threshold index using a first user interaction data measured before a threshold event and determines…
System for the Delivery and Dynamic Presentation of Large Media Assets over Bandwidth Constrained Networks
Granted: April 14, 2016
Application Number:
20160105710
Media content, based on a predetermined set of constraints, from a content provider is delivered to a local cache of a user device before viewing the media. A client asset manager process resides in the user device, an asset list at the content provider site, and the media assets are located at a remote site.
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING SECONDARY CONTENT TO VIEWERS
Granted: April 14, 2016
Application Number:
20160105707
Systems and methods disclosed herein include systems and methods for delivery of secondary content to a user device. The secondary content may comprise events synchronized to primary content. In a particular embodiment, the process may include: receiving a request from a user device to access secondary content associated with a primary content; determining whether the user device is entitled to receive the secondary content; and if the user device is entitled to receive the secondary…
Multi-touch Surface Extension using Conductive Traces and Pads
Granted: April 14, 2016
Application Number:
20160101359
There is provided an interactive board for use with a user device having a touch screen. The interactive board includes a plurality of board pads, each of the plurality of board pads including a ground region interdigitated with a sense region, a user device region configured to receive the touch screen of the user device, the user device region including device region pads configured to transmit signals to the touch screen of the user device, a plurality of traces coupling the plurality…
PUPPET CONTROL MECHANISM
Granted: April 7, 2016
Application Number:
20160096120
An apparatus comprises a puppet device. The apparatus also comprises a control mechanism operably connected to the puppet device to control movement of the puppet device. The control mechanism comprises a material having a material index of refraction that substantially matches a fluid index of refraction of a fluid in which the puppet device and the control device are positioned such that the control mechanism is rendered substantially invisible. Further, another apparatus comprises an…
VOICE SEARCHING METADATA THROUGH MEDIA CONTENT
Granted: April 7, 2016
Application Number:
20160098998
Systems and methods for voice searching media content based on metadata or subtitles are provided. Metadata associated with media content can be pre-processed at a media server. Upon receiving a vocal command representative of a search for an aspect of the media content, the media server performs a search for one or more portions of the media content relevant to the aspect of the media content being searched for. The media performs the search by matching the aspect of the media content…
THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) PRINTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRINTING 3D OBJECTS WITH USER-DEFINED MATERIAL PARAMETERS
Granted: April 7, 2016
Application Number:
20160096318
A 3D printer system that allows a 3D object to be printed such that each portion or object element is constructed or designed to have a user-defined or user-selected material parameter such as varying elastic deformation. The 3D printer system stores a library of microstructures or cells that are each defined and designed to provide the desired material parameter and that can be combined during 3D printing to provide a portion or element of a printed 3D object having the material…
