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…
AUTOMATED STORYBOARDING BASED ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND 2D/3D PRE-VISUALIZATION
Granted: April 11, 2019
Application Number:
20190107927
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…
LIGHT FIELD BASED PROJECTOR CALIBRATION METHOD AND SYSTEM
Granted: March 28, 2019
Application Number:
20190098270
The present disclosure relates to a method for calibrating a projector. In one example, the method includes receiving by a processing element light field data corresponding to a calibration image projected by a projector and captured by a light field capturing device, and modeling by a processing element one or more intrinsic properties of the projector using the light field data and the calibration image. The calibration image may be projected by the projector directly into the light…
CREATION OF NON-LINEARLY CONNECTED TRANSMEDIA CONTENT DATA
Granted: March 28, 2019
Application Number:
20190098370
The invention relates to systems and methods for manipulating non-linearly connected transmedia content, in particular for creating, processing and/or managing non-linearly connected transmedia content and for tracking content creation and attributing transmedia content to one or more creators. Specifically, the invention involves creating a transmedia content data item by a first user and storing the transmedia content data item in a data store, along with a record indicating an…
SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZED EMBEDDING AND ANALYSIS OF BRANDED CONTENT
Granted: March 28, 2019
Application Number:
20190096094
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus, system and method for processing transmedia content data. More specifically, the disclosure provides for identifying and inserting one item of media content within another item of media content, e.g. inserting a video within a video, such that the first item of media content appears as part of the second item. The invention involves analysing a first visual media item to identify one or more spatial locations to insert the second visual…
MANIPULATION OF NON-LINEARLY CONNECTED TRANSMEDIA CONTENT DATA
Granted: March 28, 2019
Application Number:
20190095446
The invention relates to systems and methods for navigating, outputting and displaying non-linearly connected groups of transmedia content. Specifically, the invention involves retrieving, from a database, an ordered group of transmedia content data objects comprising a plurality of transmedia content data objects and linking data, whereby each element of the linking data defines a directional link from one of the transmedia content data objects to another of the transmedia content data…
MANIPULATION OF NON-LINEARLY CONNECTED TRANSMEDIA CONTENT DATA
Granted: March 28, 2019
Application Number:
20190095435
The present invention relates to systems and methods for manipulating non-linearly connected transmedia content, in particular for creating, processing and managing non-linearly connected transmedia content. The disclosure includes content creation modes and version control systems for non-linearly connected transmedia content data, in which individual transmedia content data items are connected to either other via directional linking data.
AUGMENTED REALITY TRAVEL ROUTE PLANNING
Granted: March 14, 2019
Application Number:
20190077504
An apparatus such as a head-mounted display (HMD) may have a camera for capturing a visual scene for presentation via the HMD. A user of the apparatus may specify a pre-planned travel route for a vehicle within the visual scene via an augmented reality (AR) experience generated by the HMD. The pre-planned travel route may be overlaid on the visual scene in the AR experience so that the user can account for real-time environmental conditions determined through the AR experience. The…
COLLABORATIVE MULTI-MODAL MIXED-REALITY SYSTEM AND METHODS LEVERAGING RECONFIGURABLE TANGIBLE USER INTERFACES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF IMMERSIVE, CINEMATIC, AND INTERACTIVE CONTENT
Granted: February 28, 2019
Application Number:
20190066387
The disclosure is directed to collaborative multi-modal mixed-reality systems and methods leveraging reconfigurable tangible user interfaces for the production of immersive, cinematic, and interactive content. As described herein, content may be created as either a mixture of live action media and computer generated media, combined together in context; or content made up entirely from computer-generated media alone. The technology described herein may leverage physical and software-based…
DRONES GENERATING VARIOUS AIR FLOW EFFECTS AROUND A VIRTUAL REALITY OR AUGMENTED REALITY USER
Granted: February 28, 2019
Application Number:
20190066359
Systems and methods described herein are directed to enhancing a virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) experience by using one or more unmanned vehicles to generate effects around a user of a headmounted display (HMD). The generated effects may be synchronized with VR/AR content presented to the user of the HMD. Particular systems and methods described herein are directed to enhancing a VR/AR experience by using one or more unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to generate air flow…
ADAPTIVE VR/AR VIEWING BASED ON A USERS EYE CONDITION PROFILE
Granted: February 21, 2019
Application Number:
20190056780
Techniques described herein are directed to adaptive virtual reality and augmented reality viewing based on a user's eye condition data. In a first implementation, a software application renders video content based on the user's eye condition data by mapping the user's eye condition data to video rendering parameters. The video content rendered based on the user's eye condition data may be made available to a virtual reality/augmented reality player and played using a head mounted…
INTRINSIC COLOR CAMERA
Granted: January 31, 2019
Application Number:
20190037124
Systems and methods described herein are directed to capturing intrinsic color images of subjects. A camera may be equipped with a light source that is coaxial to the camera's image sensor and configured to emit a pulse of light of short duration. During image capture of a subject, the camera light source may emit the pulse of light through the lens barrel of the camera and stop emission of light before the reflected light from the light source returns. Thereafter, the camera lens…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTIVE DELIVERY OF HIGH BIT-RATE CONTENT FOR PLAYBACK
Granted: January 31, 2019
Application Number:
20190036823
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…
MENU NAVIGATION MODE FOR MEDIA DISCS
Granted: January 17, 2019
Application Number:
20190019536
Systems and methods are provided for reordering and/or bypassing certain informational content or menus that are conventionally presented prior to playback of media content stored on physical media discs. Upon initial use of a physical media disc, certain information content or menus may be presented to a user or viewer, for example, piracy warnings, language selection menus, etc. However, upon subsequent use of the physical media disc, such informational content or menus may be…
