Managing wearable device friendships without exchanging personal information
Granted: July 20, 2021
Patent Number:
11070958
Systems, methods and articles of manufacture for performing an operation comprising receiving, by a first wearable device, input specifying to establish a relationship with a second wearable device within a predefined distance of the first wearable device, receiving, by the first wearable device from the second wearable device via wireless data transmissions, an identifier of the second wearable device, a tile identifier of a tile communicably coupled to a tile interface of the second…
Techniques for generating promotional plans to increase viewership
Granted: July 20, 2021
Patent Number:
11070861
In one embodiment, a promotional subsystem generates promotional plans that include promotionals, where each promotional targets one or more pieces of scheduled content. First, the promotional subsystem generates a statistical model based on historical respondent viewership data. The statistical model model maps a respondent viewing of a promotional that targets a piece of scheduled content to a probability of the respondent viewing the piece of scheduled content. Subsequently, the…
Illumination-based system for distributing immersive experience content in a multi-user environment
Granted: July 20, 2021
Patent Number:
11070786
An immersive experience system is provided. The immersive experience system has a processor that determines a position of a first head-mounted display. Further, the processor determines a position of a second head-mounted display. The processor also generates a first image for a first immersive experience corresponding to the position of the first head-mounted display. Moreover, the process encodes the first image into a first infrared spectrum illumination having a first wavelength. In…
Dynamic word embeddings
Granted: July 20, 2021
Patent Number:
11068658
Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture to perform an operation comprising deriving, based on a corpus of electronic text, a machine learning data model that associates words with corresponding usage contexts over a window of time, according to a diffusion process, wherein the machine learning data model comprises a plurality of skip-gram models, wherein each skip-gram model comprises a word embedding vector and a context embedding vector for a respective time step associated with…
Techniques for creative review of 3D content in a production environment
Granted: July 20, 2021
Patent Number:
11068145
Various embodiments of the invention disclosed herein provide techniques for automatically displaying and providing electronic feedback about a 3D production asset. A client device executing a software application receives an asset data bundle associated with the 3D production asset. The client device generates a customized user interface based on at least one aspect of the asset data bundle. The client device displays the 3D production asset via the customized user interface. The client…
Dynamic media content for in-store screen experiences
Granted: July 13, 2021
Patent Number:
11062359
Systems, methods, and computer program products for performing an operation comprising detecting a first mobile device within a predefined proximity of a display device, receiving profile data from the first mobile device, identifying at least one rule for selecting media content based on the profile data, selecting, based on the at least one rule applied to the profile data, a first item of media content of a plurality of items of media content, and outputting the first item of media…
Media content metadata mapping
Granted: July 13, 2021
Patent Number:
11064268
According to one implementation, a media content annotation system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a software code. The hardware processor executes the software code to receive a first version of media content and a second version of the media content altered with respect to the first version, and to map each of multiple segments of the first version of the media content to a corresponding one segment of the second version of the…
Objects trail-based analysis and control of video
Granted: July 13, 2021
Patent Number:
11064107
Systems and methods for analyzing scenes from cameras imaging an event, such as a sporting event broadcast, are provided. Systems and methods include detecting and tracking patterns and trails. This may be performed with intra-frame processing and without knowledge of camera parameters. A system for analyzing a scene may include an object characterizer, a foreground detector, an object tracker, a trail updater, and a video annotator. Systems and methods may provide information regarding…
Generation of audio including emotionally expressive synthesized content
Granted: July 13, 2021
Patent Number:
11062692
An audio processing system for generating audio including emotionally expressive synthesized content includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a software code including a trained neural network. The hardware processor is configured to execute the software code to receive an audio sequence template including one or more audio segment(s) and an audio gap, and to receive data describing one or more words for insertion into the audio gap. The hardware…
Systems and methods for partitioning an animatable model
Granted: July 13, 2021
Patent Number:
11062495
Systems and methods are disclosed for partitioning an animatable model. The system may include a non-transitory computer-readable medium operatively coupled to processors. The non-transitory computer-readable medium may store instructions that, when executed, cause the processors to perform a number of operations. One operation may include obtaining an animatable model. The animatable model may include a geometry matrix. Another operation may include obtaining user input to partition an…
Guided simulation with generalized collision objects
Granted: July 13, 2021
Patent Number:
11062060
The disclosure provides an approach for simulating three-dimensional (3D) virtual environments using generalized collision objects. In one aspect, the generalized collision object includes a shape specifying the boundary of the generalized collision object, a shape velocity specifying how the generalized collision object moves and evolves through space, and a material velocity specifying how the material being simulated moves at the boundary of the generalized collision object. Taking…
Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
Granted: July 13, 2021
Patent Number:
D924923
Physical navigation guided via story-based augmented and/or mixed reality experiences
Granted: July 6, 2021
Patent Number:
11054272
Systems and methods for providing physical navigation guidance via augmented reality (AR) environments are provided. An AR experience is generated based on navigation information including a starting location and a destination location. The AR experience comprises physical navigation guidance from the starting location to the destination location using virtual elements that are associated with either or both the starting location and/or the destination location. For example, virtual…
Content adaptive optimization for neural data compression
Granted: July 6, 2021
Patent Number:
11057634
A data processing system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a data compression software code. The hardware processor executes the data compression software code to receive a series of compression input data and encode a first compression input data of the series to a latent space representation of the first compression input data. The data compression software code further decodes the latent space representation to produce an input space…
Systems and methods for interactive responses by toys and other connected devices
Granted: July 6, 2021
Patent Number:
11057236
The present disclosure may be embodied in systems, methods, and computer readable media, and may allow for interactive responses by network-enabled objects, programs, and machines. Embodiments described are well-suited for communicating and responding using small-sized data messages, thus allowing for their implementation in standard messaging systems and by simple devices such as toys and other low-level electronic devices that may have limited processing capacity and/or memory. The…
Systems and methods for detecting light signatures and performing actions in response thereto
Granted: July 6, 2021
Patent Number:
11055552
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…
Object re-identification with temporal context
Granted: July 6, 2021
Patent Number:
11055538
Techniques for object re-identification based on temporal context. Embodiments extract, from a first image corresponding to a first camera device and a second image corresponding to a second camera device, a first plurality of patch descriptors and a second plurality of patch descriptors, respectively. A measure of visual similarity between the first image and the second image is computed, based on the first plurality of patch descriptors and the second plurality of patch descriptors. A…
Systems and methods for determining actions depicted in media contents based on attention weights of media content frames
Granted: July 6, 2021
Patent Number:
11055537
There is provided a system comprising a label database including a plurality of label, a non-transitory memory storing an executable code, and a hardware processor executing the executable code to receive a media content including a plurality of segments, each segment including a plurality of frames, extract a first plurality of features from a segment, extract a second plurality of features from each frame of the segment, determine an attention weight for each frame of the segment based…
Contextual image presentation
Granted: July 6, 2021
Patent Number:
11055337
There are provided contextual image presentation systems and methods. Such a system includes a hardware processor and a system memory having stored therein a contextual image generator including a data mapping module and a data visualization module. The contextual image generator receives social media data describing social media posts, determines a geographical location corresponding to at least some of the social media posts, and identifies a subject category corresponding respectively…
Auto-stereo imaging for viewing in a vehicle
Granted: July 6, 2021
Patent Number:
11054656
Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for autostereoscopic imaging in a vehicle provide for an enhanced viewer experience. In one example, a reflector is positioned to receive an image from a projector and reflect the image onto a viewing surface through which an external scene is visible, and a camera is positioned relative to the viewing surface to observe the external scene. The system determines first and second viewing distances and viewing angles from the viewing surface to…
