Content redirection after interrupt
Granted: March 22, 2022
Patent Number:
11284164
According to one implementation, a system for redirecting to content after an interruption includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a content redirection software code. The hardware processor executes the content redirection software code to track a playout status of a primary content being provided by the system, and detect a pause to playout of the primary content due to receipt of an interrupt content by the system. In addition, the…
Environmental based dynamic content variation
Granted: March 22, 2022
Patent Number:
11282250
The present disclosure describes systems and methods directed to updating pre-generated content by applying secondary effects associated with detected and/or collected environmental data corresponding to a display environment. In operation, a sensor device detects environmental data corresponding to a display environment. A computing device may identify a secondary effect corresponding to the detected environmental data. The secondary effect may be applied to pre-generated content to…
Augmented reality (AR)-capable headset and visually detected controller devices
Granted: March 15, 2022
Patent Number:
11277496
Aspects described herein include a wearable headset comprising an optical arrangement configured to couple light from a display onto a first field of view, and one or more visual sensors defining a second field of view. The wearable headset further comprises one or more computer processors configured to receive a signal indicating that the headset is in an unworn state, and, while the headset is in the unworn state, operate the one or more visual sensors to detect one or more user inputs…
Semantic deep face models
Granted: March 15, 2022
Patent Number:
11276231
Techniques are disclosed for training and applying nonlinear face models. In embodiments, a nonlinear face model includes an identity encoder, an expression encoder, and a decoder. The identity encoder takes as input a representation of a facial identity, such as a neutral face mesh minus a reference mesh, and outputs a code associated with the facial identity. The expression encoder takes as input a representation of a target expression, such as a set of blendweight values, and outputs…
Systems and methods for real-time compositing of video content
Granted: March 8, 2022
Patent Number:
11272081
Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for compositing real-time, real-world video with virtual objects. An electronic device includes circuitry coupled to a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the circuitry to receive video of a given video capture region. The circuitry is caused to receive location information and camera information from the unmanned vehicle. The circuitry is caused to obtain a representation of a location of interest corresponding to the…
Automated storyboarding based on natural language processing and 2D/3D pre-visualization
Granted: March 8, 2022
Patent Number:
11269941
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…
Systems and methods for providing contextual messages for media contents
Granted: March 8, 2022
Patent Number:
11269890
There is provided a system including a memory and a processor configured to stream a media content for playback to a first media device for viewing by a first user, receive, while streaming the media content, an input from the first media device indicating an insertion point in the media content selected by the first user for inserting a contextual message provided by the first user, receive the contextual message from the first media device, stream the media content for playback to a…
Adaptive multi-window configuration based upon gaze tracking
Granted: March 8, 2022
Patent Number:
11269403
A window in a multi-window display configuration is provided. A gaze of one or more users is directed at the window. The multi-window display configuration has a plurality of windows that are each configured to display corresponding content. Further, a window attribute of the window is modified based upon the gaze. In addition, a request for the content corresponding to the window is sent to a server. The content corresponding to the window is received from the server. The content…
Drinkware
Granted: March 1, 2022
Patent Number:
D944596
Techniques for automatically exposing 3D production assets to an editorial workstation in a content creation pipeline
Granted: March 1, 2022
Patent Number:
11263257
Various embodiments of the invention disclosed herein provide techniques for automatically exposing 3D production assets to an editorial workstation in a content creation pipeline. A production asset management system transmits, to an editorial workstation, a first content library that includes first metadata associated with a 3D production asset that is included in an editorial cut. The first metadata allows a user to see what versions of the 3D production asset are available for…
System for adjusting an audio/visual device based on health and wellness data
Granted: February 22, 2022
Patent Number:
11257573
A process receives, with a receiver, health and wellness data of a user that is sensed by one or more sensors during consumption by the user of media content. Further, the process receives, with the receiver, health and wellness data of the user that is determined by a healthcare provider during an event that is distinct from the consumption of the media content. In addition, the process aggregates, with a processor, the health and wellness data of the user that is sensed and the health…
Appearance synthesis of digital faces
Granted: February 22, 2022
Patent Number:
11257276
Techniques are disclosed for generating digital faces. In some examples, a style-based generator receives as inputs initial tensor(s) and style vector(s) corresponding to user-selected semantic attribute styles, such as the desired expression, gender, age, identity, and/or ethnicity of a digital face. The style-based generator is trained to process such inputs and output low-resolution appearance map(s) for the digital face, such as a texture map, a normal map, and/or a specular…
Digital companion device with display
Granted: February 22, 2022
Patent Number:
11256460
Techniques for improved interactive devices are provided. Input is received from a user, where the input includes a first request. The input is evaluated using one or more natural language processing techniques to determine a context of the input, and a response to the input is generated based at least in part on the determined context. A first virtual character of a plurality of virtual characters is selected based at least in part on the determined context. The first virtual character…
Augmented reality camera frustum
Granted: February 15, 2022
Patent Number:
11249304
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 be operating a second, physical camera for capturing video or still images within the visual scene. The HMD may generate an augmented reality (AR) experience by presenting an AR view frustum representative of the actual view frustum of the physical camera. The field of view of the user viewing the captured visual scene via the AR…
Robust distribution of ip timing signals
Granted: February 1, 2022
Patent Number:
11239934
Embodiments disclosed herein provide techniques to selectively distribute Precision Time Protocol (PTP) data in a network. The network can include multiple different network devices (e.g., switches) connected to form a network architecture (e.g., a spine/leaf architecture). Rather than distributing the PTP data (e.g., PTP timestamps) through all the network devices in order to synchronize local clocks to a global, master clock, the embodiments herein describe an out-of-band distribution…
Near field communication antenna system for a playset
Granted: February 1, 2022
Patent Number:
11239899
A playset comprises a near field communication extending system. The near field communication extending comprises a main antenna and a plurality of extending antennas. The main antenna is positioned at a first location of the playset and configured to wirelessly communicate to a near field communication device of a mobile device. The plurality of extending antennas is positioned at a plurality of different locations in an interior of the playset. Each of the plurality of extending…
Placing large objects and objects separated by large distances in augmented reality
Granted: February 1, 2022
Patent Number:
11238610
Systems and methods are described for placing large objects and objects separated by large distances in an AR environment. An AR headset system may place and generate digital objects using relative geographical coordinates (e.g., latitude, longitude, and altitude) between the user's current position and the object being placed. In one implementation, a digital object's geographical coordinates may be calculated by determining a user's geographical coordinates, using a distance…
Efficient encoding and decoding sequences using variational autoencoders
Granted: February 1, 2022
Patent Number:
11238341
Embodiments include applying neural network technologies to encoding/decoding technologies by training and encoder model and a decoder model using a neural network. Neural network training is used to tune a neural network parameter for the encoder model and a neural network parameter for the decoder model that approximates an objective function. The common objective function may specify a minimized reconstruction error to be achieved by the encoder model and the decoder model when…
Techniques for automatically detecting programming deficiencies
Granted: February 1, 2022
Patent Number:
11237805
A quality control (QC) engine analyzes sample code provided by a user and then generates example code that more effectively performs the same or similar operations performed by the sample code. An objective model analyzes the sample code to generate one or more tags indicating the intended objective(s) of the sample code. The quality model analyzes the sample code to generate one or more ratings indicating the degree to which the sample code achieves each intended objective. The…
System and method to improve performance of a speech recognition system by measuring amount of confusion between words
Granted: January 25, 2022
Patent Number:
11232786
Systems and methods to improve the performance of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system using a confusion index indicative of the amount of confusion between words are described, where a confusion index (CI) or score is calculated by receiving a first word (Word1) and a second word (Word2), calculating an acoustic score (A12) indicative of the phonetic difference between Word1 and Word2, calculating a weighted language score (W(U1+U2), indicative of a weighted likelihood (or word…
