Combination gesture game mechanics using multiple devices
Granted: June 11, 2019
Patent Number:
10317988
Embodiments provide techniques for altering a virtual world based on combinational input gestures. Embodiments retrieve a definition for a combinational gesture within a computer game, the definition specifying physical actions to perform according to a specified timing schedule in order to successfully perform the combinational gesture. User activity is monitored to detect when a first user input from a first input devices sufficiently matches a first predefined pattern of user input…
Systems and methods for featuring a person in a video using performance data associated with the person
Granted: June 4, 2019
Patent Number:
10311917
There is provided a system comprising a non-transitory memory and a hardware processor configured to determine elements of a performance in a video, identify one or more people to feature in the video based on the elements of the performance in the video, receive a user input selecting a person from the one or more people to feature in the video, retrieve performance data for featuring the selected person in the video based on actions performed by the actor in the video, create a…
Classifying segments of speech based on acoustic features and context
Granted: June 4, 2019
Patent Number:
10311863
There is provided a system including a microphone configured to receive an input speech, an analog to digital (A/D) converter configured to convert the input speech to a digital form and generate a digitized speech including a plurality of segments having acoustic features, a memory storing an executable code, and a processor executing the executable code to extract a plurality of acoustic feature vectors from a first segment of the digitized speech, determine, based on the plurality of…
Single shot capture to animated vr avatar
Granted: June 4, 2019
Patent Number:
10311624
Presented herein are systems and methods configured to generate virtual entities representing real-world users. In some implementations, the systems and/or methods are configured to capture user appearance information with imaging devices and sensors, determines correspondence values conveying correspondences between the appearance of the user's body or user's head and individual ones of default body models and/or default head models, modifies a set of values defining a base body model…
Stacked wave guide system providing depth and animation
Granted: June 4, 2019
Patent Number:
10310274
A display system adapted to display images with animation and depth without requiring a viewer to wear special 3D eyewear. The system includes a controller and a programmable light source operating in response to control signals from the controller to output light. The system further includes an edge-lit layer with an edge optically coupled to the programmable light source, and the output light is trapped in the layer with total internal reflection (TIR), The layer is divided into first…
Special effects system for generating a midair laser blast illusion
Granted: June 4, 2019
Patent Number:
10309619
A special effects apparatus for generating an illusion of a moving beam of light in midair. The apparatus includes a light source, such as a laser light source outputting colored light, generating a beam of light that is aimed along a linear light travel path. The apparatus further includes a dynamic light receiving assembly, and this assembly includes: an elongated support rod; a light receiving element attached to a first end of the support rod; and a driver coupled to a second end of…
Comprehensive safety schema for ensuring appropriateness of language in online chat
Granted: May 28, 2019
Patent Number:
10303762
A method is disclosed for evaluating a chat message sent between users of an online environment. The method may include associating each word in the chat message with metadata. The metadata identifies a word type and usage for each word in the chat message. This method may also include identifying one or more safety rules associated with the metadata. Each safety rule identifies an ordered sequence of one or more sets of words. This method may also include applying the safety rule to the…
Self calibration for smartphone goggles
Granted: May 28, 2019
Patent Number:
10304446
Systems, methods and articles of manufacture for calibrating an augmented reality headset. Embodiments output for display an interface depicting a plurality of virtual reference lines. The augmented reality headset includes a plurality of physical reference lines. Each of the plurality of virtual reference lines corresponds to a respective one of the plurality of physical reference lines. A user indication specifying an adjustment for a first one of the plurality of virtual reference…
Systems and methods for awarding user accounts associated with users of a video game based on information that is unique to individual user accounts
Granted: May 28, 2019
Patent Number:
10304287
Users may access a virtual space and/or video game taking place in the virtual space by logging into user accounts via computing platforms. The user accounts may include values for one or more attributes of the user accounts. The user accounts may be periodically rewarded based on values included in the user accounts matching a winning value. The values in the user accounts may include account-specific values that may be unique to a corresponding user account. A winning value may be…
Virtual environment rendering
Granted: May 28, 2019
Patent Number:
10304234
A system for rendering a virtual environment includes a hardware processor, a memory, and a simulation generator software code stored in the memory. The hardware processor is configured to execute the simulation generator software code to receive a three-dimensional-representation (3D-representation) of a physical object, and to receive a two-dimensional-image (2D-image) of the physical object. The hardware processor is also configured to execute the simulation generator software code to…
Augmented reality (AR) gaming system with sight lines to other players
Granted: May 28, 2019
Patent Number:
10300389
An augmented reality (AR) gaming system of the present description includes 3D eyewear for each player that allows the player wearing the 3D eyewear to view the surrounding physical space. The 3D eyewear in conjunction with operation of a 3D display assembly of the AR gaming system allows the player to see other players while they also perceive 3D augmentation content that is rendered based on that particular player's tracked location. For example, the 3D augmentation content may include…
Virtual blaster
Granted: May 28, 2019
Patent Number:
10300372
Embodiments provide techniques for automating control of electronic device. A first interactive game playing within the physical environment using one or more electronic devices is detected. Embodiments collect electromyogram data from one or more electromyography sensors within the physical environment and analyze the electromyogram data collected to determine muscle activations made by the user. Upon determining that the determined muscle activations made by the user match a predefined…
Physical pieces for interactive application using touch screen devices
Granted: May 21, 2019
Patent Number:
10293247
There are provided systems and methods for facilitating an interaction with a first peripheral device using a touch-sensitive system having a processor and a touch surface. An example method includes detecting, using the processor, the first peripheral device touching the touch surface of the touch-sensitive system, identifying, using the processor, the first peripheral device touching the touch surface of the touch-sensitive system, and determining, using the processor, that the first…
Media content annotation
Granted: May 21, 2019
Patent Number:
10299013
According to one implementation, a media content annotation system includes a computing platform including a hardware processor and a system memory storing a model-driven annotation software code. The hardware processor executes the model-driven annotation software code to receive media content for annotation, identify a data model corresponding to the media content, and determine a workflow for annotating the media content based on the data model, the workflow including multiple tasks.…
Descriptive metadata extraction and linkage with editorial content
Granted: May 21, 2019
Patent Number:
10299012
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…
System and method for providing media content
Granted: May 21, 2019
Patent Number:
10298662
There is presented a system for providing a content stored on a medium, the system comprising a media presentation module including a processor. The processor is configured to retrieve a content payload including a digital content from a data structure residing on the medium, and to retrieve a content-describing metadata stored separately from the digital content, from the data structure. The content-describing metadata provide content information including media encoding information for…
Haptic effect generation system
Granted: May 21, 2019
Patent Number:
10297120
A haptic effect generation system includes a computing platform including a hardware processor, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), and a memory storing a haptic software code, as well as a haptic transformer coupled to the computing platform. The haptic transformer receives an input signal, and transforms the input signal to a first audio signal corresponding to the input signal. The ADC converts the first audio signal to a first audio data. The…
Methods and systems of enriching blendshape rigs with physical simulation
Granted: May 21, 2019
Patent Number:
10297065
Methods, systems, and computer-readable memory are provided for determining time-varying anatomical and physiological tissue characteristics of an animation rig. For example, shape and material properties are defined for a plurality of sample configurations of the animation rig. The shape and material properties are associated with the plurality of sample configurations. An animation of the animation rig is obtained, and one or more configurations of the animation rig are determined for…
System and method for event context-based commerce options
Granted: May 21, 2019
Patent Number:
10296921
There is provided a system and method for providing context-based limited availability commerce options. There is provided a method comprising receiving a sensor data sample corresponding to a segment for an event, matching the sensor data sample to a media record in a media database, the media record including an identity of the event, generating an advertising campaign of limited availability commerce options using a context including the identity of the event and a location of a…
Systems and methods to simulate user presence in a real-world three-dimensional space
Granted: May 21, 2019
Patent Number:
10296080
This disclosure presents systems and methods to simulate user presence in a real-world three-dimensional space.
