Techniques for concealed vehicle reset
Granted: July 28, 2020
Patent Number:
10722805
Embodiments disclosed herein include an amusement park ride. The amusement park ride include a ride vehicle that can transition from a first configuration to a second configuration during the duration of the ride. The amusement park ride can include a loading area for loading passengers into the ride vehicle and a separate unloading area for disembarking passengers from the ride vehicle. After disembarking passengers from the ride vehicle the ride vehicle travels to a transition area…
Controller
Granted: July 28, 2020
Patent Number:
D891429
Distorted view augmented reality
Granted: July 21, 2020
Patent Number:
10719995
Embodiments provide for distorted views in augmented reality by mapping undistorted distances from a camera to real objects in an environment; producing a distorted video feed of the environment that shows the real objects at apparent distances to the camera; anchoring a virtual object to a position in the environment based on the undistorted distances; determining a scaling factor between the camera and the position based on the undistorted distances and the apparent distances; scaling…
Precomputed environment semantics for contact-rich character animation
Granted: July 14, 2020
Patent Number:
10713832
A method of identifying locations in a virtual environment where a motion sequence can be performed by an animated character may include accessing the motion sequence for the animated character, identifying a plurality of contact locations in the motion sequence where the animated character contacts surfaces in virtual environments, accessing the virtual environment comprising a plurality of surfaces, and identifying the locations in the virtual environment where the motion sequence can…
Event enhancement using augmented reality effects
Granted: July 14, 2020
Patent Number:
10713831
There are provided systems and methods for providing event enhancement using augmented reality (AR) effects. In one implementation, such a system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing an AR effect generation software code. The hardware processor is configured to execute the AR effect generation software code to receive a venue description data corresponding to an event venue, to identify the event venue based on the venue description data, and to…
Dynamic modification of navigation maps
Granted: July 7, 2020
Patent Number:
10702778
Objects in a virtual space may be non-traversable such that traversal by characters of the virtual space through such objects is not permitted by the physics of the virtual space. Objects may be relocated during interactive gameplay. A navigation map of the virtual space is updated interactively, e.g. after an object has been relocated, by determining which regions are traversable or non-traversable, the boundaries of these regions, and which boundaries separate adjacent traversable…
Resonant cavity mode enabled wireless power transfer
Granted: July 7, 2020
Patent Number:
10707685
An embodiment provides a method of wireless power transmission, including: powering a transmitter that produces electromagnetic waves in a three dimensional structure; selecting a transmission frequency that is a resonance frequency for the three dimensional structure; and transmitting, using the transmitter, electromagnetic waves within the three dimensional structure on the transmission frequency selected. Other systems, methods, apparatuses and products are described and claimed.
System for generating augmented reality content from a perspective view of an unmanned aerial vehicle
Granted: July 7, 2020
Patent Number:
10706634
A system has an augmented reality device and an unmanned aerial vehicle. The augmented reality device captures, from a perspective view of the augmented reality device, real-world imagery of a user within an augmented reality environment. Further, the augmented reality device generates virtual imagery to overlay the real-world imagery captured by the augmented reality image capture device from the perspective view of the augmented reality device. Finally, the augmented reality device…
Adaptive sampling in Monte Carlo renderings using error-predicting neural networks
Granted: July 7, 2020
Patent Number:
10706508
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…
Image processing using a convolutional neural network
Granted: July 7, 2020
Patent Number:
10706503
According to one implementation, an image processing system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a software code including a convolutional neural network (CNN) trained using one or more semantic map(s). The hardware processor executes the software code to receive an original image including multiple object images each identified with one of multiple object classes, and to generate replications of the original image, each replication…
Manipulation of non-linearly connected transmedia content data
Granted: July 7, 2020
Patent Number:
10706097
The invention relates to systems and methods for navigating, outputting and displaying non-linearly connected groups of transmedia content. Specifically, the invention involves retrieving, from a database, an ordered group of transmedia content data objects comprising a plurality of transmedia content data objects and linking data, whereby each element of the linking data defines a directional link from one of the transmedia content data objects to another of the transmedia content data…
System and method of configuring disparate physical objects to provide control signals for controlling a game
Granted: July 7, 2020
Patent Number:
10702770
Systems and methods of configuring disparate physical objects to provide control signals for controlling one or more of a game, a virtual space, a video game taking place in the virtual space, and/or other interactive games are described herein. Individual physical objects may include one or more sensors and/or other components. Output signals generated by the one or more sensors may be used to determine control signals. For example, control specification information may be utilized.…
Automated dynamic adaptive controls
Granted: June 30, 2020
Patent Number:
10695682
Systems and methods for automated dynamic adaptive control are disclosed herein. The system can include a simulation vehicle that can transit at least one participant through an entertainment experience from a starting positon to a terminating position. The simulation vehicle can include a plurality of user controls. The system can include a processor that can: provide content to the at least one participant; receive user inputs via the plurality of controls of the simulation vehicle.…
Denoising Monte Carlo renderings using neural networks with asymmetric loss
Granted: June 30, 2020
Patent Number:
10699382
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…
Saliency-weighted video quality assessment
Granted: June 30, 2020
Patent Number:
10699396
Systems and methods are disclosed for weighting the image quality prediction of any visual-attention-agnostic quality metric with a saliency map. By accounting for the salient regions of an image or video frame, the disclosed systems and methods may dramatically improve the precision of the visual-attention-agnostic quality metric during image or video quality assessment. In one implementation, a method of saliency-weighted video quality assessment includes: determining a per-pixel image…
Animated liquid droplet environments
Granted: June 30, 2020
Patent Number:
10699609
Embodiments herein describe a dripping system that displays an animation using different colored light sources. In one embodiment, the dripping system includes red, green, and blue light sources which can be activated individually or in combination to emit light that reflects off liquid droplets emitted by the dripping system. Controlling the timing of the light sources permits the dripping system to illuminate the water droplets at different locations along their path which generate the…
Proximity based entitlement sharing
Granted: June 30, 2020
Patent Number:
10701120
Systems and methods for sharing protected media content are provided. Protected media content can be shared when at least a first and second user are proximately located. The first and second user can be bound or paired based on one or more identification indicia associated with first and second user devices utilized, owned, or operated by the first and second users, respectively. Upon pairing, media content from the first and second users' media content libraries can be shared.…
Systems and methods for scene categorization
Granted: June 30, 2020
Patent Number:
10701365
Systems and methods are provided for manually or automatically identifying delineating scenes in media content. Scene categorization parameters setting forth thematic and/or cinematic criteria are used to analyze frames or groups of pictures (GOPs) making up the media content. Those frames or GOPs having one or more characteristics that meet the thematic and/or cinematic criteria may be deemed to belong or be a part of a particular scene in the media content. Downstream applications or…
Real-time sub-second download and transcode of a video stream
Granted: June 30, 2020
Patent Number:
10701413
There is provided a system having a content server having a hardware processor and a system memory, a content management software code stored in the system memory. The hardware processor being configured to execute the content management software code to receive a search request for a video content, and identify a plurality of video content streams based on the search request. For each of the plurality of video content streams to determine a plurality of video content threads for…
Content promotion through automated curation of content clips
Granted: June 30, 2020
Patent Number:
10701416
A content curation system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a content promotion software code providing a user interface. The hardware processor executes the content promotion software code to receive an initiation signal corresponding to a user action, and, in response to receiving the initiation signal, to identify multiple content items as desirable content items to the user. In addition, the content promotion software code…
