Disney Patent Applications

MULTI-COLOR 3D PRINTER

Granted: December 31, 2015
Application Number: 20150375451
A printer adapted for printing three dimensional (3D) objects with material having two or more colors. The printer includes a print head with an extrusion nozzle having an outlet, a mixing chamber upstream of the outlet, and a heated portion. The printer also includes a print bed with a surface for receiving material extruded from the outlet of the extrusion nozzle and a print material supply that is loaded with a filament of a plastic having a first color. The print head is adapted for…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTIVE DELIVERY OF HIGH BIT-RATE CONTENT FOR PLAYBACK

Granted: December 3, 2015
Application Number: 20150350277
The present disclosure provides for systems and methods for predictive delivery of high bit-rate content. The disclosed systems and methods provide an adaptive-bit-rate streaming (ABS) system with more robust information, thereby allowing more intelligent pre-caching of the media content. By providing greater information to the ABS system, the disclosed systems are able to foresee higher bit-rate segments that require greater attention, allowing the system to use such information to…

EXAMPLE BASED EDITING OF VIRTUAL TERRAIN MAPS

Granted: December 3, 2015
Application Number: 20150348284
The disclosure provides an approach for generating virtual terrains. A terrain editing application is configured to receive assets of various types, including a blank canvas, two-dimensional (2D) sketches, real-world elevation maps, authored heightfields, etc. The assets specify characteristics of a terrain, and provide starting points for creating the virtual terrain. The editing application further provides a set of tools allowing a user to modify the virtual terrain. In one…

DEPTH MODIFICATION FOR DISPLAY APPLICATIONS

Granted: December 3, 2015
Application Number: 20150348273
Techniques of depth modification for display applications are disclosed. A multiscopic video frame, including at least first and second images depicting a scene, is received. Depth information pertaining to the multiscopic video frame is received. A depth mapping function is determined based on one or more image characteristics of the multiscopic video frame, other than depth. The depth information is modified based on the depth mapping function. At least a third image is generated based…

FUTURE EVENT PREDICTION USING AUGMENTED CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELD

Granted: December 3, 2015
Application Number: 20150347918
Systems and methods are disclosed for a future event prediction. Embodiments include capturing spatiotemporal data pertaining to activities, wherein the activities include a plurality of events, and employing an augmented-hidden-conditional-random-field (a-HCRF) predictor to generate a future event prediction based on a parameter-vector input, hidden states, and the spatiotemporal data. Methods therein utilize a graph including a first node associated with random variables corresponding…

AUDIOLOCATION METHOD AND SYSTEM COMBINING USE OF AUDIO FINGERPRINTING AND AUDIO WATERMARKING

Granted: November 26, 2015
Application Number: 20150341890
An audio-based navigation system for determining a present location or position of a mobile device such as a smartphone within a venue. The system includes a sound system with a first speaker playing first audio content and a second speaker playing second audio content. The first speaker is positioned in a first space in a venue, and the second speaker is positioned in a second space of the venue. The navigation system also includes a mobile device with memory storing a database of…

UTILIZING HEURISTICS TO ENABLE SELF-ADJUSTING DISPLAYS

Granted: November 26, 2015
Application Number: 20150339964
Systems and methods for self-adjusting displays are provided. A self-adjusting display may receive a display characteristics shift profile, where the display characteristics shift profile can be generated based on calibration event data collected from a plurality of displays. The display characteristics shift profile can be utilized as an estimate or prediction of a shift in display characteristics the self-adjusting display may experience over time. The self-adjusting display may…

Reflection-Based Location Detection

Granted: November 19, 2015
Application Number: 20150334549
There is provided a system including a mobile device configured to transmit a first advertisement to a listening device and a repeater device, receive a data advertisement from the listening device in response to transmitting the first advertisement to the listening device, the data advertisement including a time difference between the listening device receiving the first advertisement and the listening device receiving a second advertisement transmitted from the repeater device in…

CARRYING GRAPHICAL DATA EMBEDDED IN A PROGRAM STREAM

Granted: November 12, 2015
Application Number: 20150326951
Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation, the operation comprising defining, in a data space of a video, attributes of a time-dependent graphics object to overlay on the video as part of a media broadcast, wherein the attributes comprise a location of a template for the graphics object, a location of a current value for a variable of the graphics object, and a time in the video to overlay the graphics object.

ADHESIVE AND HEATING ELEMENT LAMINATE FOR ATTACHING EVA PADDING

Granted: November 12, 2015
Application Number: 20150327331
A method for attaching padding material to a surface of a structural component, e.g., a lap bar or other park ride vehicle component. The method includes positioning a laminated sheet onto the surface of the structural component, with the laminated sheet including an adhesive material and a heating element. The method includes positioning a pad formed of the padding material onto the surface of the structural component, with a surface of the pad abuts an exposed surface of the laminated…

REMOTE, DIRECTED DELIVERY OF DATA FOR ON-AIR GRAPHICS

Granted: November 12, 2015
Application Number: 20150326819
Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation, the operation comprising defining, in a message, attributes of a graphics object to overlay on a video as part of a media broadcast, wherein the attributes comprise an identifier of a template for the graphics object and a time in the video to overlay the graphics object, and publishing the message to one or more recipients.

MULTI-PERSPECTIVE STEREOSCOPY FROM LIGHT FIELDS

Granted: November 5, 2015
Application Number: 20150319423
Methods and systems for generating stereoscopic content with granular control over binocular disparity based on multi-perspective imaging from representations of light fields are provided. The stereoscopic content is computed as piecewise continuous cuts through a representation of a light field, minimizing an energy reflecting prescribed parameters such as depth budget, maximum binocular disparity gradient, desired stereoscopic baseline. The methods and systems may be used for efficient…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EDITING VIRTUAL CONTENT OF A VIRTUAL SPACE

Granted: November 5, 2015
Application Number: 20150317040
A system for editing virtual content of a virtual space. The system may include a host server comprising one or more physical processors configured to effectuate presentation of an editing interface on a client computing platform associated with an administrator user. The files may store property values for the properties of the virtual content of the virtual space. The property value for a property of virtual content may be determined based on a selection of a file that stores the…

METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF ARCHIVING MEDIA FILES

Granted: October 22, 2015
Application Number: 20150302039
Methods and systems of archiving media files are provided. Media files may be archived such that only the difference between a media file and a base media file is stored. The base media file is archived. The media file to be archived and the base media file may have common attributes such as video codec, resolution, frame rate, and/or color space. A media file to be archived may be compared to the base media file to determine any difference. Bit-to-bit analysis or frame-to-frame analysis…

System and Method for Identification Triggered By Beacons

Granted: October 15, 2015
Application Number: 20150294514
There is provided systems and methods of identification and automation of devices using a beacon. A system includes a beacon, an automation device, and a server. The beacon is configured to transmit a signal to the automation device in response to entering a defined geographic zone. The automation device is configured to receive the signal from the beacon, transmit, in response to receiving the signal, the signal to the server, receive an identification of a person possessing the beacon…

MULTI-LEVEL FRAMEWORK FOR OBJECT DETECTION

Granted: October 15, 2015
Application Number: 20150294192
The disclosure provides an approach for detecting objects in images. An object detection application receives a set of training images with object annotations. Given these training images, the object detection application generates semantic labeling for object detections, where the labeling includes lower-level subcategories and higher-level visual composites. In one embodiment, the object detection application identifies subcategories using an exemplar support vector machine (SVM) based…

Method and System for Tracking Objects

Granted: October 15, 2015
Application Number: 20150294158
There is provided a system for tracking objects. The system includes a processor and a memory for storing a plurality of sensory data frames. The processor determines a first hypothesized location for each of the objects in each of the plurality of sensory data frames. For each of the plurality of sensory data frames, the processor determines probabilities that the first hypothesized location of each of the objects in a sensory data frame of the plurality of sensory data frames is the…

Electronic Broadcast Log System

Granted: October 15, 2015
Application Number: 20150293635
There is provided a system and method for displaying a traffic output synchronized with an automation output, the system including a display, a memory storing a user interface, and a processor configured to receive the traffic output, receive the automation output, synchronize the traffic output with the automation output, and display the traffic output synchronized with the automation output using the user interface on the display. The processor is further configured to advance each of…

System and Method for Real-Time Age Profiling

Granted: October 15, 2015
Application Number: 20150293594
There are provided systems and methods for real-time age profiling. One system includes at least one sensor, a memory storing an algorithm, and a processor configured to execute the algorithm to receive data corresponding to a user interaction with the at least one sensor and calculate an age of a user using the data corresponding to the user interaction. The data corresponding to the user interaction may include pressure data from a pressure sensor, orientation data from an orientation…

SHARED CONTROL OF SEMI-AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES INCLUDING COLLISION AVOIDANCE IN MULTI-AGENT SCENARIOS

Granted: October 8, 2015
Application Number: 20150284010
A method for providing shared control over movement of a vehicle within a space. The method includes receiving user input related to a velocity and a direction for the vehicle within the space. The method includes processing the user input to selectively adjust the velocity and the direction desired by the user based on a set of predefined constraints to generate a trajectory for the vehicle for an upcoming time period. The method includes operating drive mechanisms in the vehicle based…