Disney Patent Grants

Techniques for personalizing the playback of a media title based on user interactions with an internet of things device

Granted: June 27, 2023
Patent Number: 11689766
In various embodiments, an interactive streaming application plays back a media title via a client device. In operation, while a client device plays back a first chunk of the media title, the interactive streaming application determines a first movement of an internet of things (“IoT”) device. The interactive streaming application then determines, from multiple target states, a target state that is associated with the first movement. Based on the target state, the interactive…

Surface covering for use as artificial moss, grass, roots, hair, and the like

Granted: June 27, 2023
Patent Number: 11686042
A surface covering for use as a moss covering or patch of grass via application to a surface or substrate. The surface covering provides a decorative and durable and easily maintained surface covering. The covering is fabricated using groups of fibers, such as metallic, plastic, or other material fibers, e.g., stainless steel fibers or strands available commercially as steel wool or the like. The fibers or strands provide a core of a body of each blade or piece of the surface covering,…

Location-based interactive storytelling

Granted: June 20, 2023
Patent Number: 11683662
A storytelling system includes location-based content (LBC) servers and LBC effects databases for use in a real-world story venue, and a computing platform communicatively coupled to those LBC servers and databases. A processor of the computing platform executes software code to receive story selection data from a user device, obtain a story template including story arcs each associated with one or more LBC effect(s) that corresponds to the story selection data, and determine, using a…

Systems and methods for detecting light signatures and performing actions in response thereto

Granted: June 20, 2023
Patent Number: 11683551
There is provided systems and methods for performing actions based on light signatures. An exemplary system includes a light source, a light detector, a non-transitory memory storing a plurality of light signatures and a hardware processor. The hardware processor executes an executable code to illuminate, using the light source, a target object with a first light, collect, using the light detector, a second light being a reflection of the first light by the target object, match the…

Blockchain configuration for secure content delivery

Granted: June 20, 2023
Patent Number: 11683153
There is provided a method including receiving a playback system identifier corresponding to a playback system, generating a blockchain corresponding to a content identifier identifying a content, wherein the blockchain is uniquely associated with the content identifier, establishing, in the blockchain, a block corresponding to the playback system identifier, sending an encrypted version of the content to the playback system, and in response to one or more updates to the blockchain by…

Calibration, customization, and improved user experience for bionic lenses

Granted: June 13, 2023
Patent Number: 11675429
The present disclosure relates to calibration, customization, and improved user experiences for smart or bionic lenses that are worn by a user. The calibration techniques include detecting and correcting distortion of a display of the bionic lenses, as well as distortion due to characteristics of the lens or eyes of the user. The customization techniques include utilizing the bionic lenses to detect eye characteristics that can be used to improve insertion of the bionic lenses, track…

Methods and systems for conducting multi-user interactions on a device using biometric authentication

Granted: June 13, 2023
Patent Number: 11676118
There is provided a method for use by a mobile device. The method includes launching a software application requiring an identity verification of each of a plurality of users for performing a requested action, the plurality of users including a first user and a second user, receiving a first biometric information of the first user and a second biometric information of the second user, sending the first biometric information of the first user and the second biometric information of the…

Digital rights protected content playing

Granted: June 6, 2023
Patent Number: 11669596
A system for performing digital rights protected content playing includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a software code. The hardware processor executes the software code to receive, from a first user, metadata identifying one or more content segment(s), determine whether the first user has a right to access the content segment(s), produce a playlist using the metadata when the first user has the right, and output the playlist to the first user…

Data object classification using an optimized neural network

Granted: June 6, 2023
Patent Number: 11669723
A system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a software code and a neural network (NN) having multiple layers including a last activation layer and a loss layer. The hardware processor executes the software code to identify different combinations of layers for testing the NN, each combination including candidate function(s) for the last activation layer and candidate function(s) for the loss layer. For each different combination, the software…

Techniques for inferring three-dimensional poses from two-dimensional images

Granted: June 6, 2023
Patent Number: 11669999
In various embodiments, a training application generates training items for three-dimensional (3D) pose estimation. The training application generates multiple posed 3D models based on multiple 3D poses and a 3D model of a person wearing a costume that is associated with multiple visual attributes. For each posed 3D model, the training application performs rendering operation(s) to generate synthetic image(s). For each synthetic image, the training application generates a training item…

Systems and methods for using augmented reality with the internet of things

Granted: May 30, 2023
Patent Number: 11663783
This disclosure relates to systems and methods for using augmented reality with the internet of things. An augmented reality experience may be provided based on an operation of an object. Operation status information of a detected object may be obtained and a visual effect may be determined based on the operation status information. An object may be controlled using augmented reality. Operation status information of a detected object may be obtained and a control option may be determined…

Holographic imagery for on set eyeline reference

Granted: May 23, 2023
Patent Number: 11656578
Techniques for using holographic imagery for eyeline reference for performers. A first computer generated object is identified for display to a first performer at a designated physical position on a set. A first holographic projection of the first computer generated object is generated using a first holographic display. The first holographic display is configured to make the first holographic projection appear, to the first performer, to be located at the designated physical position on…

Synergistic object tracking and pattern recognition for event representation

Granted: May 16, 2023
Patent Number: 11651501
A system for performing synergistic object tracking and pattern recognition for event representation includes a computing platform having processing hardware and a system memory storing a software code. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to receive event data corresponding to one or more propertie(s) of an object, to generate, using the event data, a location data estimating a location of each of multiple predetermined landmarks of the object, and to…

Techniques for sculpting digital faces based on anatomical modeling

Granted: May 9, 2023
Patent Number: 11645813
Techniques are disclosed for creating digital faces. In some examples, an anatomical face model is generated from a data set including captured facial geometries of different individuals and associated bone geometries. A model generator segments each of the captured facial geometries into patches, compresses the segmented geometry associated with each patch to determine local deformation subspaces of the anatomical face model, and determines corresponding compressed anatomical subspaces…

Automated machine learning tagging and optimization of review procedures

Granted: May 9, 2023
Patent Number: 11645579
Techniques for machine learning optimization are provided. A video comprising a plurality of segments is received, and a first segment of the plurality of segments is processed with a machine learning (ML) model to generate a plurality of tags, where each of the plurality of tags indicates presence of an element in the first segment. A respective accuracy value is determined for each respective tag of the plurality of tags, where the respective accuracy value is based at least in part on…

Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface

Granted: May 9, 2023
Patent Number: D985611

Techniques for sculpting digital faces based on anatomical modeling

Granted: May 9, 2023
Patent Number: 11645813
Techniques are disclosed for creating digital faces. In some examples, an anatomical face model is generated from a data set including captured facial geometries of different individuals and associated bone geometries. A model generator segments each of the captured facial geometries into patches, compresses the segmented geometry associated with each patch to determine local deformation subspaces of the anatomical face model, and determines corresponding compressed anatomical subspaces…

Automated machine learning tagging and optimization of review procedures

Granted: May 9, 2023
Patent Number: 11645579
Techniques for machine learning optimization are provided. A video comprising a plurality of segments is received, and a first segment of the plurality of segments is processed with a machine learning (ML) model to generate a plurality of tags, where each of the plurality of tags indicates presence of an element in the first segment. A respective accuracy value is determined for each respective tag of the plurality of tags, where the respective accuracy value is based at least in part on…

Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface

Granted: May 9, 2023
Patent Number: D985611

Method for temporal stabilization of landmark localization

Granted: May 2, 2023
Patent Number: 11640676
Various embodiments set forth systems and techniques for training a landmark model. The techniques include determining, using the landmark model, a first landmark in a set of first landmarks associated with a first image; performing, on the first image, a first perturbation to obtain a second image; determining, using the landmark model, a second landmark in a set of second landmarks associated with the second image; determining, based on a first distance between the first landmark and…