NETWORK CONDITION PREDICTIONS FOR MULTIMEDIA STREAMING
Granted: August 20, 2015
Application Number:
20150237092
Network condition prediction and multimedia streaming consumption prediction are provided. The prediction may be based on a device's prior location, behavior, and statistics thereof. By gathering location data from users anonymously and securely, a virtual location network with millions of nodes are provided. Each virtual location, at a given time, is stored with associated network metrics gathered from various devices in a database. The database may comprise a probabilistic model and a…
Digital Detection of Physical Dice Rolls Via Conductive Dice Tray
Granted: August 20, 2015
Application Number:
20150231486
There is provided a system and method for determining an identity of a game piece. The system including a detection grid, a memory for storing a detection algorithm, and a processor configured to detect an electrical change on the detective grid caused by a contact face from the game piece, determine the identity of the game piece based on the electrical change using the detection algorithm, and transmit the identity of the game piece wirelessly. The game piece may include a die with a…
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING COMMERCIAL BREAKS
Granted: August 13, 2015
Application Number:
20150229980
A system and method for identifying a break in a broadcast including receiving a broadcast of an event, the broadcast comprising one of audio and video, receiving event data about the event, determining, during the event, a break threshold based on the event data and a type of the event and identifying a break based on the broadcast of the event and the break threshold.
PROJECTOR DRIFT CORRECTED COMPENSATED PROJECTION
Granted: August 13, 2015
Application Number:
20150229896
The present invention relates generally to adjusting projected images from a projector. A projected image is compensated to neutralize effects of a projection surface and optimized based on anticipated pixel drift movement.
DISPLAY SYSTEM WITH A TRANSPARENT PROJECTION SURFACE WITH REDUCED BLOW-BY
Granted: August 13, 2015
Application Number:
20150227035
A display system that is adapted to provide control blow-by. The display system includes a projector that is operable to project light through a lens. The system also includes a first polarizer positioned proximate to the lens receiving and first polarizing the projected light. The display system further includes a projection screen assembly that includes a transparent projection screen and a second polarizer. The projected light first strikes the transparent projection screen causing a…
METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF PLAYING MULTI-SOURCE MEDIA CONTENT
Granted: August 6, 2015
Application Number:
20150220620
Methods and systems described herein play multi-source media content. A multi-source media content includes digital assets from multiple media sources. The digital assets may include a video digital asset, an audio digital asset, or a textual digital asset. The digital assets may be provided by different media content providers. The digital assets from multiple media sources may be played such that various components (e.g., a video component, an audio component, or a textual component)…
MOTORIZED MONOPOD JIB FOR CAMERAS
Granted: August 6, 2015
Application Number:
20150219981
One embodiment provides a motorized monopole for a camera, including: a monopole; an offset arrangement attached to the monopole; a camera mount; the offset arrangement rotating with respect to the monopole; the offset arrangement terminating in a connection attaching the camera mount; and a first motor imparting tilt movement to the camera mount with respect to the connection. Other aspects are described and claimed.
SYSTEM AND MEDIA INTERFACE FOR MULTI-MEDIA PRODUCTION
Granted: July 16, 2015
Application Number:
20150201134
To generate a media presentation of a live event, a user interface is coupled to at least three cameras that share substantially the same vantage point. One of the cameras (e.g., a context camera) provides a context view of the event that is displayed on a screen of the user interface. The views of the other two cameras are superimposed onto the context view to define sub-portions that are visually demarcated within the context view. In one embodiment, only one of views is visually…
LIGHT-BASED CAUSTIC SURFACE CALIBRATION
Granted: July 16, 2015
Application Number:
20150201188
A method for performing light-based calibration of optics with caustic surfaces. The method includes mapping a light detecting device to a programmable light source. Then, the method includes operating a calibration light source to direct light onto one or more caustic surfaces of an optical assembly, e.g., an assembly of one or more lenses, facets, lenticules, and lenslets. The method may then involve, with the light detecting device, capturing an image of a projection surface of the…
OPTICAL VORTEX 3D DISPLAYS
Granted: July 16, 2015
Application Number:
20150201186
A method for generating three dimensional (3D) displays. The method includes displaying a hologram that combines three (or more) images encoded into three (or more) different OAM channels, and the method also includes reflecting light from the displayed hologram to create a multichannel light beam. Then, the method involves decoding the multichannel light beam to decode and display the three encoded images. The decoding step includes displaying the three encoded images in decoded form in…
VIDEO QUALITY THROUGH COMPRESSION-AWARE GRAPHICS LAYOUT
Granted: July 9, 2015
Application Number:
20150195547
An embodiment provides a method, including: identifying a first type of media and a second type of media; determining a compression technique to be used to compress a combined media created from the first type of media and the second type of media; and aligning using a processor, based on the compression technique determined, the first type of media and the second type of media to create the combined media. Other aspects are described and claimed.
SIMULATING COLOR DIFFUSION IN A GRAPHICAL DISPLAY
Granted: July 9, 2015
Application Number:
20150193950
As described herein, an electronic device with a display screen may simulate the color diffusion that occurs in a physical painting process. For instance, the user may perform one or more actions that simulate a brushstroke on the display screen such as swiping a touch-sensitive area or dragging a cursor across the screen. The electronic device then calculates a geodesic distance between a pixel inside a region defined by the brushstroke and a pixel located outside this region based on…
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USER CONTENT VIEW PROTECTION
Granted: July 9, 2015
Application Number:
20150193626
A user content protection system and method that may include a content-sharing application associated with a user device and/or an access monitor configured to monitor access limitations placed on content shared by the content sharing application. The content-sharing application may be configured to share content from the user device to one or more other user devices. The access monitor may provide conditional access to the content depending on whether or not certain access limitations…
MATERIAL POINT METHOD FOR SIMULATION OF GRANULAR MATERIALS
Granted: July 2, 2015
Application Number:
20150187116
The disclosure provides an approach for simulating and rendering granular materials. A simulation application generates video frames depicting a granular material phenomenon using a strain based elasto-plastic constitutive model integrated with a hybrid Eulerian/Lagrangian material point method (MPM). The elasto-plastic constitutive model includes physical equation(s) which dictate forces that affect the granular material during the simulation. In particular, the constitutive model may…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIDEO CLIP CREATION, CURATION, AND INTERACTION
Granted: July 2, 2015
Application Number:
20150185965
Disclosed are systems and methods for user interaction with and curation of digital media content, such that users are able to specify a particular clip of video content, and utilize the clip in a desired way. The disclosed systems and methods allow users to view video content, select video clips within the video content, save video clips into a collection of video clips, and curate the collection of video clips. The disclosed systems and methods also allow users to view bookmarks…
FLEXIBLE, SHAPEABLE FREE-FORM ELECTROSTATIC SPEAKERS
Granted: June 25, 2015
Application Number:
20150181350
An embodiment provides a free-form electrostatic speaker, including: a three dimensional object body; at least a portion of the three dimensional object body having a free-form electrode layer disposed thereon; the free-form electrode layer being shaped to substantially match the at least a portion of the three dimensional object body; a free-form diaphragm positioned proximate to, and being shaped to substantially match, the free-form electrode layer; and an input element coupled to the…
COLOR DISPLAY AND PROJECTION SYSTEM
Granted: June 18, 2015
Application Number:
20150172646
A process and apparatus provide high speed multicomponent imagery from high frame rate binary spatial light modulators. The process and apparatus decompose an image frame into a plurality of subframes such that each subframe in the plurality of subframes corresponds to an image component of the image frame. The process and apparatus sequentially illuminate, with a spatially addressable backlight, each of the subframes displayed on a spatial light modulator segment through a lenslet array…
INTELLIGENT ACCESS CONTROL FOR AMUSEMENT PARK RIDES TO SUPPORT MAINTENANCE AND TESTING
Granted: June 11, 2015
Application Number:
20150161833
A method for controlling an amusement park ride to provide safe access for maintenance and testing. The method includes first determining a location of an access control key and then second determining whether the determined location is within a control space. The method includes, when the access control key is in the control space, operating a machine of the park ride in a first operating mode. When outside the control space, the method includes operating the machine in a second…
Motion Tracking and Image Recognition of Hand Gestures to Animate a Digital Puppet, Synchronized with Recorded Audio
Granted: June 11, 2015
Application Number:
20150161809
There is provided a system and method for creating a digital puppet show by animating a digital puppet using gestures and sound. The method includes presenting the digital puppet to a user on a display. The method further includes receiving motion data corresponding to a gesture, using a camera, from the user, translating the motion data into digital data using a motion tracking algorithm, and animating the digital puppet, on the display, using the digital data. The method can further…
AUGMENTING PHYSICAL APPEARANCE USING ILLUMINATION
Granted: June 4, 2015
Application Number:
20150154783
A system for augmenting the appearance of an object including a plurality of projectors. Each projector includes a light source and a lens in optical communication with the light source, where the lens focuses light emitted by the light source on the object. The system also includes a computer in communication with the plurality of projectors, the computer including a memory component and a processing element in communication with the memory component and the plurality of projectors. The…
