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.…
Interactive video game method and system
Granted: June 30, 2020
Patent Number:
10695679
One particular implementation of the present invention may take the form of a method and apparatus for providing various movements as input to a video game. The method and apparatus may detect the body movements of a video game player and interpret those movements as inputs to the video game. The video game may then compare the movements of the user to expected movements to determine if the correct movement was performed by the user. The video game may also display a video game…
Descriptive metadata extraction and linkage with editorial content
Granted: June 23, 2020
Patent Number:
10694263
Embodiments provide techniques for distributing supplemental content based on content entities within video content. Embodiments include analyzing video data to identify a known content entity within two or more frames of the video data. For each of the two or more frames, a region of pixels within the respective frame is determined that corresponds to the known content entity. Embodiments further include determining supplemental content corresponding to the known content entity. A…
Device, system, and method for game enhancement using cross-augmentation
Granted: June 23, 2020
Patent Number:
10694245
A device, system, and method generates augmentations for an enhanced display. The method performed at an enhancement server includes receiving device data from a plurality of client devices associated with respective users attending an event at a venue, the client devices configured to capture data associated with the event in the venue. The method includes determining a first client device of the client devices in which an augmentation is to be shown based on the device data. The method…
Channel based projector calibration
Granted: June 23, 2020
Patent Number:
10694160
The present disclosure is related to methods and systems for calibrating a projector. The method includes displaying a plurality of calibration patterns, where the calibration patterns are displayed separately by different wavelength channel bands, e.g., red channel, blue channel, green channel. The method then includes receiving by a processing element one or more calibration images. The method then includes determining one or more displacements corresponding to a plurality of pixels in…
Natural polite language generation system
Granted: June 23, 2020
Patent Number:
10691894
A process receives a user input in a human-to-machine interaction. The process generates, with a natural language generation engine, one or more response candidates. Further, the process measures, with the natural language generation engine, the semantic similarity of the one or more response candidates. In addition, the process selects, with the natural language generation engine, a response candidate from the one or more response candidates. The process measures, with the natural…
Robot navigation in context of obstacle traffic including movement of groups
Granted: June 23, 2020
Patent Number:
10688662
A system for improving navigation of robots in a space with a plurality of pedestrians or other movable objects or obstacles. The system includes a traffic analysis assembly that has a traffic sensor(s) sensing movement of the obstacles in the space. The traffic analysis assembly further includes a processor running a flow module that processes (such as the Gunnar-Farneback optical flow algorithm) output from the traffic sensor to generate traffic analysis results, which include density…
Eddy current vehicle drive
Granted: June 16, 2020
Patent Number:
10683019
A ride that includes an eddy current vehicle drive, and the ride may take the form of a roller coaster with a lift hill. The eddy current vehicle drive includes an eddy current generator with a vehicle-mounted element and a support-mounted element. The “support” in this ride may be a chain similar to a chain lift system's chain with its drive components. The eddy current vehicle drive may use equipment that is similar to a traditional roller coaster chain lift. The chain has a…
System for introducing physical experiences into virtual reality (VR) worlds
Granted: June 9, 2020
Patent Number:
10675766
A system for providing a user of a virtual reality (VR) system with physical interactions with an object in the real world or in the surrounding physical space while they are concurrently interacting in the virtual world with a corresponding virtual object. The real world object is dynamic with the system including a physical interaction system that includes a robot with a manipulator for moving, positioning, and/or orienting the real world object to move it into contact with the user.…
Enhanced virtual desktop infrastructures
Granted: June 9, 2020
Patent Number:
10678569
Performing an operation comprising providing, by a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) client, access to an application executing on a host system to a first client system via a network, receiving, from the first client system, at least one internet protocol (IP) packet specifying attributes of an input provided by an input/output (I/O) device of the client system, receiving a timestamp from a time source, and storing the attributes of the input and the timestamp as metadata of a first…
Method and system for detecting commercial breaks
Granted: June 2, 2020
Patent Number:
10674195
A system and method for identifying a break in a broadcast including receiving a broadcast of an event, the broadcast comprising one of audio and video, receiving event data about the event, determining, during the event, a break threshold based on the event data and a type of the event and identifying a break based on the broadcast of the event and the break threshold.
Systems and methods for profile based media segment rendering
Granted: June 2, 2020
Patent Number:
10674111
Systems and methods are provided for transcoding media content in accordance with thematic and/or cinematic characteristics of scenes. In particular, compression techniques may be selected to optimize compression of scenes based on their thematic and/cinematic characteristics. Scene boundary identifiers, such as scene in and out points may be identified, and the corresponding thematic and/or cinematic characteristic meta-data can be sent to a transcoder for transcoding. In this way, the…
Methods and arrangements for content filtering
Granted: June 2, 2020
Patent Number:
10673795
Systems and arrangements are provided for filtering language. As presently preferred, these are configured to filter inappropriate language, symbols, words, etc on web sites or used in chat rooms. Embodiments create one or more arrays of inappropriate character strings representing, for example, obscene words and character combinations. Embodiments identify the inappropriate character strings, for example in chat text, and edit them to an appropriate form, for example with cartoon…
Methods of restricted virtual asset rendering in a multi-user system
Granted: June 2, 2020
Patent Number:
10672193
Embodiments relate to receiving an indication of a desired item by a user in a multi-use virtual world. The indication requests a rendering of a restricted virtual object in a space of the user. A server can determine and retrieve a partially rendered model of the restricted virtual object, determine a rendering location based on position data, and link the partially rendered model to the user and to the rendering location. The partially rendered model and the rendering location can be…
Multi-scale architecture of denoising monte carlo renderings using neural networks
Granted: June 2, 2020
Patent Number:
10672109
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…
Graph based content browsing and discovery
Granted: June 2, 2020
Patent Number:
10671670
Systems and methods for using graph databases to make digital content recommendations are described. A graph database may be associated with tagged digital content. The graph database may include a node for each content tag and edges identifying a relationship between nodes. When a user accesses or searches a digital content item, the graph database may be traversed to identify and present related content recommendations to the user based on the traversed nodes. Node graph traversal may…
Mediating interactions among system agents and system clients
Granted: June 2, 2020
Patent Number:
10671461
A system for mediating interactions among system agents and system clients includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing an interaction cueing software code including decision trees corresponding to storylines. The hardware processor executes the interaction cueing software code to receive interaction data corresponding to an interaction of a system client with a first system agent, identify a storyline for use in guiding subsequent interactions…
System and method for providing dynamic virtual reality ground effects
Granted: June 2, 2020
Patent Number:
10671154
One or more embodiments of the present disclosure include a system for providing dynamic virtual reality ground effects. The system includes a user interface surface and multiple motors coupled to the user interface surface. At least one of the motors is coupled to a virtual reality component of an electronic device. A first motor of the multiple motors is driven by movement of the user interface surface and is used to generate a feedback electrical signal in response to the movement of…
System using rule based techniques for handling gameplay restrictions
Granted: June 2, 2020
Patent Number:
10668384
Systems and methods employing rule based techniques for handling virtual entity manifestation into gameplay modes in accordance with gameplay restrictions of the individual gameplay modes. The system may comprise a host server including one or more processors configured to execute computer program modules. The computer program modules may comprise a game module configured to execute an instance of the online game and to facilitate participation in one or more gameplay modes, a rule…
Video object tagging using synthetic images and segmentation hierarchies
Granted: May 26, 2020
Patent Number:
10664973
There is provided a system including a memory and a processor configured to obtain a first frame of a video content including an object and a first region based on a segmentation hierarchy of the first frame, insert a synthetic object into the first frame, merge an object segmentation hierarchy of the synthetic object with the segmentation hierarchy of the first frame to create a merged segmentation hierarchy, select a second region based on the merged segmentation hierarchy, provide the…
