Disney Patent Grants

Synthesizing sequences of images for movement-based performance

Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number: 12205213
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…

Transformer-based shape models

Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number: 12198225
A technique for synthesizing a shape includes generating a first plurality of offset tokens based on a first shape code and a first plurality of position tokens, wherein the first shape code represents a variation of a canonical shape, and wherein the first plurality of position tokens represent a first plurality of positions on the canonical shape. The technique also includes generating a first plurality of offsets associated with the first plurality of positions on the canonical shape…

Techniques for curating content items

Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number: 12192587
Techniques are disclosed for curating content items. In some embodiments, a content item group generator applies rules defining inclusion and exclusion criteria to content items and associated metadata in order to assign the content items to content item groups. Given the assignments of content items to content item groups, a list generator applies a machine learning technique to generate, for each content item, a representation of the content item that includes weights associating the…

Curating narrative experiences through automated content compilation

Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number: 12192583
A content compilation system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a software code configured to provide an editorial interface. The hardware processor executes the software code to receive compilation authoring data via the editorial interface, identify one or more end-user(s) for receiving a content compilation, access a consumption profile of the end-user(s), obtain, using the consumption profile and a first authoring criterion in the…

System and method for synchronizing live video with external data sources

Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number: 12184914
Methods and systems for synchronizing video with external data sources by a user device where the video is grouped into segment video files having video frames, includes establishing a persistent connection between the user device and a synchronization server, receiving a sync message associated with the beginning of a video segment to be played by the user device, the sync message having an initial recording wall clock time stamp, calculating by the user device a recording wall clock…

Secure content access across user accounts

Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number: 12184629
The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods to enable users to access content authorized to other users. A method for accessing content may include receiving an access activation request from a primary device or a primary user account corresponding to a content item accessible by the primary user account, generating an access identifier corresponding to the content item, where the access identifier identifies the content item and includes access information, receiving…

Park ride with drop swing propulsion

Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number: 12179123
A park ride for use in theme parks, amusement parks, and other settings. The new ride includes a track defining a ride path for a passenger vehicle (or multiple vehicles that may be linked in a train). The vehicle is configured, such as with a bogie assembly with two to four or more wheels, to roll upon and engage the track. The ride includes a drop swing propulsion system that is adapted to drop a section of track upon which the passenger vehicle is supported from a first elevation to a…

Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface

Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number: D1055969

Data object classification using an optimized neural network

Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number: 12169778
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…

Temporal techniques of denoising Monte Carlo renderings using neural networks

Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number: 12169914
A modular architecture is provided for denoising Monte Carlo renderings using neural networks. The temporal approach extracts and combines feature representations from neighboring frames rather than building a temporal context using recurrent connections. A multiscale architecture includes separate single-frame or temporal denoising modules for individual scales, and one or more scale compositor neural networks configured to adaptively blend individual scales. An error-predicting module…

Recall and triggering system for control of on-air content at remote locations

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12167051
There is provided a recall and triggering system and method for the control of on-air graphics at remote locations. The system including a television network and an affiliated station, the television network configured to insert a command into a video and transmit the video including the command to the affiliated station, and the affiliated station configured to receive the video including the command from the television network, store the video in the memory, detect the command from the…

Device-assisted services for protecting network capacity

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12166596
Device Assisted Services (DAS) for protecting network capacity is provided. In some embodiments, DAS for protecting network capacity includes monitoring a network service usage activity of the communications device in network communication; classifying the network service usage activity for differential network access control for protecting network capacity; and associating the network service usage activity with a network service usage control policy based on a classification of the…

Data-driven ghosting using deep imitation learning

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12165395
One embodiment provides a method, comprising: training, using deep imitation learning, a neural network associated with a predetermined ghosting model to predict player movements for at least one player during at least one sequence in a game; receiving, at an information handling device, tracking data associated with a player movement path for at least one player during the at least one sequence; analyzing, using a processor, the tracking data to determine at least one feature associated…

Behavior-based computer vision model for content selection

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12165382
Various embodiments set forth systems and techniques for evaluating media content items. The techniques include receiving visual feedback associated with one or more audience members viewing a first media content item; analyzing the visual feedback to generate one or more emotion signals based on the visual feedback; and generating a set of features associated with the one or more audience members viewing the first media content item based on the one or more emotion signals.

Proactive conflict resolution in node-based collaboration systems

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12165107
A system includes processing hardware, a user interface (UI), and a system memory storing a software code. The processing hardware executes the software code to receive from a first user, via the UI, project data identifying a project including multiple tasks, determine, using the project data, a node-based graph of the project including the tasks, receive from a first user or a second user via the UI, task action data producing a modification to the node-based graph, and identify, based…

Station with infinite ingress and egress times for use in transportation systems

Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number: 12145631
A ride system adapted to eliminate delays caused by variances in loading or unloading through the inclusion of an infinite ingress/egress station within the ride path. The station provides a system to circumvent the vehicle in series design methodology, which allows the station to operate to pull a vehicle out of the line or series of vehicles if an issue arises during loading or unloading. This is achieved using a circular turntable that is rotated with a series of vehicles attached to…

Systems and methods to adjust a unit of experience based on digital assets of users

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12141791
Systems and methods to adjust a unit of experience based on digital assets of users are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage first user information of a first user; receive an authentication request from the first user; determine whether the authentication information input is valid by comparing the authentication information input and first authentication information included in the first user information; determine, responsive to determination that the authentication…

Supplementing entertainment content with ambient lighting

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12143661
According to one implementation, a system for supplementing entertainment content with ambient lighting includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a software code. The hardware processor is configured to execute the software code to receive an entertainment content, detect one or more attributes of the entertainment content that correspond to an artistic intent of a producer of the entertainment content, and interpret the artistic intent of the…

Performer density assessment

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12142042
A system for assessing performer density includes a computing platform having processing hardware and a memory storing software code. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to receive content and content data, the content data identifying one or more performer(s) depicted or referenced in the content, and determine, using the content and the content data, one or more segment(s) of the content in which the performer(s) is/are depicted or referenced. The…

Techniques for robust image denoising

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12141945
Techniques are disclosed for training and applying a denoising model. The denoising model includes multiple specialized denoisers and a generalizer, each of which is a machine learning model. The specialized denoisers are trained to denoise images associated with specific ranges of noise parameters. The generalizer is trained to generate per-pixel denoising kernels for denoising images associated with arbitrary noise parameters using outputs of the specialized denoisers. Subsequent to…