Themed aerial vehicle entertainment platform for providing dynamically-coordinated show
Granted: February 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12230153
A themed aerial vehicle entertainment system or platform useful for generating crowd-pleasing shows or displays through the use of dynamically-coordinated show systems. Instead of use of a fixed flight plan, the new entertainment platform is configured to include one or more UAVs that is enclosed within or supports thematic cladding such as the outer shell of a spacecraft or flying character, and the show is dynamically coordinated to present a cohesive performance. Onboard show effects…
Production asset library management
Granted: February 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12229723
A computing platform including a processing hardware and a memory storing a software code is coupled to at least first and second workstations and a production asset library. The processing hardware executes the software code to send, from the first workstation, a request identifying a production asset and metadata specification to the second workstation, and receive, from the second workstation, a payload including the production asset and production asset data including preview…
Optimizing insertion points for content based on audio and video characteristics
Granted: February 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12225272
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for inserting content into a media program. The technique includes determining a plurality of markers corresponding to a plurality of locations within a media program. The technique also includes for each marker included in the plurality of markers, automatically analyzing a first set of intervals within the media program that lead up to the marker and a second set of intervals within the media program that immediately follow…
Dynamic selection of candidate bitrates for video encoding
Granted: February 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12225252
In some embodiments, a method generates a first representation of a first relationship between bitrate and quality based on first features of a first portion of a video. Also, the method generates a second representation of a second relationship between bitrate and quality based on second features of a second portion of a video. The first representation is analyzed to determine a first list of bitrates for the first portion of video and the second representation is analyzed to determine…
Data-driven physics-based models with implicit actuations
Granted: February 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12223577
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for generating actuation values based on a target shape such that the actuation values cause a simulator to output a simulated soft body that matches the target shape. The technique includes inputting a latent code that represents a target shape and a point on a geometric mesh into a first machine learning model. The technique further includes generating, via execution of the first machine learning model, one or more…
Constrained multi-label dataset partitioning for automated machine learning
Granted: February 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12222965
A system includes a computing platform having processing hardware and a memory storing a software code. The processing hardware executes the software code to receive a dataset including at least some data samples having multiple metadata labels, and identify a partitioning constraint and a partitioning of the dataset into data subsets. The software code also executed obtains, for each metadata label, a desired distribution ratio based on the number of the data subsets and a total number…
Dynamic orientation of a physical projection platform
Granted: February 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12222739
A system for providing a physical projection routine includes a hardware processor, a system memory storing a software code, and a projection platform. The hardware processor is configured to execute the software code to measure an environmental parameter of a venue, determine, based on the environmental parameter, a desired orientation of the projection platform for executing the physical projection routine, and orient the projection platform according to the desired orientation…
Systems and methods to compilate an experience summary based on real-world experiences
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12211031
Systems and methods to compilate an experience summary based on real-world experiences are described herein. Exemplary implementations: receive authentication information for a user at a location of one or more real-world experiences; determine whether the authentication information is valid; determine, responsive to determination that the authentication information is valid, a set of digital assets that are associated with an address included in a digital wallet of the user based on…
Systems and methods for pre-calculating information regarding interactions between objects during a simulation
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12208782
A simulation platform may receive equipment information regarding ride equipment. The equipment information identifies a first location of a first end of the ride equipment on a travel path and identifies a second location of a second end of the ride equipment. The simulation platform may determine, based on the equipment information, that the first location is at a first distance from a starting location on the travel path and indicates that the second location is at a second distance…
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…
Emotion-based sign language enhancement of content
Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number:
12205211
A content enhancement system includes a computing platform having processing hardware and a system memory storing software code. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to receive audio-video (A/V) content, to execute at least one of a visual analysis or an audio analysis of the A/V content, and to determine, based on executing the at least one of the visual analysis or the audio analysis, an emotional aspect of the A/V content. The processing hardware is…
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…
