Procedural animation engine and editor for sample-based design of stylized walking gaits for bipedal robots
Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number:
12293445
A robot design and control system including a procedural animation engine and a graphical animation editor that enable animators to author stylized walking gaits achievable by physical robotic characters, including bipedal robots of varying design. The animation engine generates dynamically feasible reference trajectories for omnidirectional walking given a desired walking velocity that may be input from a joystick or an artificial intelligence (AI) planner. This allows a legged robot to…
Automation of differential media uploading
Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number:
12292924
A differential media uploading system includes a hardware processor and a memory storing software code. The hardware processor executes the software code to receive a timeline file including a playlist track for a video file, and determine whether any pre-existing video frames stored in a media mastering system include a respective image depicted by a video frame contained in the video file. When it is determined that any of the pre-existing video frames include the respective image, the…
Quality of service monitoring for streaming content
Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number:
12287828
Techniques relating to streaming video are disclosed. These techniques include identifying one or more streaming video sessions for one or more users based on a plurality of events relating to streaming video for the one or more users. The techniques further include storing data for the one or more streaming video sessions in an electronic database, based on the plurality of events, identifying a plurality of metadata relating to the events, and determining, based on a threshold value, a…
Frame interpolation for rendered content
Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number:
12288281
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for performing frame interpolation. The technique includes generating (i) a first set of feature maps based on a first set of rendering features associated with a first key frame, (ii) a second set of feature maps based on a second set of rendering features associated with a second key frame, and (iii) a third set of feature maps based on a third set of rendering features associated with a target frame. The technique also…
Software defined network orchestration to manage media flows for broadcast with public cloud networks
Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number:
12289369
Techniques to manage media flows for broadcast with public cloud networks. A request for a media flow is received. A location of the media flow is identified based on a registration database configured to maintain locations of media flows across a media production facility and a public cloud network facility. The media flow is accessed, and at least one of the receiving entity or the requesting entity is configured to generate media based on the media flow.
Performance optimization of pre-processor using video proxy codec
Granted: April 22, 2025
Patent Number:
12284360
In some embodiments, a method trains a first parameter of a differentiable proxy codec to encode source content based on a first loss between first compressed source content and second compressed source content that is output by a target codec. A pre-processor pre-processes a source image to output a pre-processed source image, the pre-processing being based on a second parameter. The differentiable proxy codec encodes the pre-processed source image into a compressed pre-processed source…
Haptic content presentation and implementation
Granted: April 22, 2025
Patent Number:
12282605
Systems and methods generating a haptic output response are disclosed. Video content is displayed on a display. A location of a user touch on the display is detected while the video content is being displayed. A region of interest in the video content is determined based on the location of the user touch. And a haptic output response is generated to a user. A characteristic of the haptic output response is determined using one or more characteristics of the region of interest.
Photosensitivity mitigation during display of content
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12279010
There are provided systems and methods for providing photosensitivity mitigation during display of content. In one implementation, such a system includes a hardware processor and a system memory storing a software application. The hardware processor is configured to execute the software application to, while content is being displayed on a primary display for viewing by a viewer, determine that a portion of the content that is about to be displayed on the primary display may trigger a…
Cloud and hybrid-cloud production management system
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12279003
A system includes a processor, and a memory storing software code and a machine learning (ML) model trained to allocate media production resources. The processor executes the software code to receive data describing a media flow requiring processing, identify, using the data and the ML model, media production resources for processing the described media flow, obtain the media production resources, and aggregate, from each of the media production resources, performance and billing metrics…
Codec rate distortion compensating downsampler
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12278969
A system includes a machine learning (ML) model-based video downsampler configured to receive an input video sequence having a first display resolution, and to map the input video sequence to a lower resolution video sequence having a second display resolution lower than the first display resolution. The system also includes a neural network-based (NN-based) proxy video codec configured to transform the lower resolution video sequence into a decoded proxy bitstream. In addition, the…
Method and system for latent-space facial feature editing in deep learning based face swapping
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277738
A computer-implemented method of changing a face within an output image or video frame that includes: receiving an input image that includes a face presenting a facial expression in a pose; processing the image with a neural network encoder to generate a latent space point that is an encoded representation of the image; decoding the latent space point to generate an initial output image in accordance with a desired facial identity but with the facial expression and pose of the face in…
Object alignment techniques for animation
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277662
Techniques for aligning object representations for animation include analyzing a source object representation and a target object representation to identify a category of the source object and a category of the target object. Based on the category or categories of the objects, a feature extraction machine learning models is selected. The source object representation and the target object representation are provided as input to the selected feature extraction machine learning model to…
Real-time non-photo-realistic rendering
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12260484
According to one exemplary implementation, a system includes processing hardware and a system memory storing a non-photo-realistic (NPR) renderer. The processing hardware is configured to execute the NPR renderer to receive a digital asset, display a preliminary image corresponding to the digital asset, and receive editing data identifying an NPR effect. The processing hardware is further configured to execute the software code to produce the NPR image, in a consolidated rendering and…
Enabling deep historical data use via NFT re-minting
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12260384
According to one exemplary implementation, a system includes a hardware processor and a system memory storing software code, the hardware processor is configured to execute the software code to provide a non-fungible token (NFT) for transfer of a right to the NFT, the NFT minted to include first metadata providing a historical rights record of the NFT, the historical rights record identifying a present owner of the right to the NFT. The hardware processor is further configured to execute…
Optical viewfinder for costume heads
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12259542
A head for a walk-around costume is provided that is adapted for enhanced visibility. The costume head includes an outer shell defining an interior space for receiving a head of a human performer. The outer shell includes an aperture allowing incoming light from an exterior space to enter the interior space, and an eye location for the human performer is spaced apart from the aperture when the head is received in the interior space. To provide an enlarged field of view, the costume head…
Systems and methods for transferring a passenger compartment between ride systems using robotic tool changers
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12257520
In some implementations, a controller may cause a robotic arm connector, of the robotic arm, to be connected to a first compartment connector of a passenger compartment of an amusement ride. The controller may cause a second compartment connector, of the passenger compartment, to be disconnected from a first structure connector of a first support structure. The controller may transport the passenger compartment from the first support structure to a second support structure after causing…
Transparent and multi-faceted face mask
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12256792
A transparent face mask for enhancing communications while controlling release of respiratory droplets. The mask includes a body formed from a thin flexible plastic material such as polypropylene. The mask body has a center diamond shaped segment that cantilevers the mask body from the bridge of a wearer's nose. The body includes right and left side segments, which each extend outward from one of the four sides of a diamond-shaped center segment to form a segment-to-segment joint between…
Face reconstruction using a mesh convolution network
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12243349
Embodiment of the present invention sets forth techniques for performing face reconstruction. The techniques include generating an identity mesh based on an identity encoding that represents an identity associated with a face in one or more images. The techniques also include generating an expression mesh based on an expression encoding that represents an expression associated with the face in the one or more images. The techniques also include generating, by a machine learning model, an…
Synthesizing sequences of images for movement-based performance
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12243140
A technique for rendering an input geometry includes generating a first segmentation mask for a first input geometry and a first set of texture maps associated with one or more portions of the first input geometry. The technique also includes generating, via one or more neural networks, a first set of neural textures for the one or more portions of the first input geometry. The technique further includes rendering a first image corresponding to the first input geometry based on the first…
Simulated human-like affect-driven behavior by a virtual agent
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12242944
A system for simulating human-like affect-driven behavior includes a hardware processor and a system memory storing software code providing a virtual agent. The hardware processor executes the software code to identify a character assumed by the virtual agent and having a personality, a target state of motivational fulfillment, a baseline mood, and emotions. The software code identifies current physical and motivational fulfillment states, and currently active emotions of the character,…
