Descriptive metadata extraction and linkage with editorial content
Granted: April 16, 2019
Patent Number:
10264329
Embodiments provide techniques for distributing supplemental content based on content entities within video content. Embodiments include receiving video data containing an embedded watermark at a first position within the video data. The embedded watermark is detected at the first position within the video data. Embodiments also include transmitting, to a remote content server, a message specifying a time stamp corresponding to the first position within the video data. In response to…
Electronic program guide provisioning in real-time
Granted: April 16, 2019
Patent Number:
10264292
There is provided an electronic program guide (EPG) provisioning system that receives traffic data for programming content included in a programming content stream, extracts programming content metadata describing the programming content from the traffic data, and obtains supplemental metadata further describing the programming content. The EPG system further enriches the programming content metadata using the supplemental metadata to produce an enhanced programming content metadata,…
Computed information for metadata extraction applied to transcoding
Granted: April 16, 2019
Patent Number:
10264273
Systems, methods and articles of manufacture for transcoding video content. Embodiments include receiving an instance of video content for processing. A plurality of shots within the instance of video content is determined. Embodiments analyze the instance of video content to generate metadata describing the media content. The generated metadata includes, for each of the plurality of shots, data describing a plurality of frames within the respective shot. An optimized transcoding…
Augmented reality music composition
Granted: April 16, 2019
Patent Number:
10262642
Systems and methods for re-arranging a musical composition using augmented reality are disclosed. A user can be provided with one or more physical image markers representative of at least one of a musical entity and a musical style in which a musical track has been pre-recorded. Upon capturing a visual scene in which one or more of these physical image markers are included, an augmented reality version of the visual scene is displayed along with audio corresponding to the musical…
Systems and methods for virtual entity animation
Granted: April 16, 2019
Patent Number:
10262447
Systems and methods of virtual entity animation are presented herein. A virtual entity may have virtual skin defined by a model having a set of vertices. A skeletal-based skin deformation method of animation may be used wherein individual vertices in the model may have individually and independently determined centers of rotation.
System for simulating pyrotechnics
Granted: April 16, 2019
Patent Number:
10261333
One embodiment of the present disclosure may take the form of a projection module for projecting onto a projection surface. The projection module includes a light source emitting a beam of light, a diffractive optical element in optical communication with the light source, the diffractive optical element acts to split the beam of light into a plurality of diffracted light beams, a lens assembly in optical communication with the diffractive optical element and configured to converge the…
Apparatus and methods for bringing an object to life
Granted: April 9, 2019
Patent Number:
10257482
This disclosure relates to apparatus and methods for bringing an object to life using a projection apparatus. An object may be augmented with a projected image by detecting a landmark associated with the object, determining a modified version of an image to compensate for an orientation of the projection apparatus to the landmark, and implementing a light generated by the projection apparatus to project the modified version of the image on a surface of the object.
Time-line based digital media post viewing experience
Granted: April 9, 2019
Patent Number:
10257561
Disclosed are a digital media asset selection interface and method. The interface may comprise a plurality of digital media assets that are displayed to a user such that the user can navigate the digital media assets in a first direction and a second direction, such as a horizontal direction and a vertical direction. In a more particular embodiment, the digital media assets are listed horizontally such that assets listed to the left of a selection pane represent a “past” aspect and…
Enhancing TV with wireless broadcast messages
Granted: April 9, 2019
Patent Number:
10257549
There is provided a system and method for enhancing television with wireless broadcast messages. The system including a television, a mobile device, and a server, wherein the television is configured to transmit a broadcast message to the mobile device, the broadcast message used by the television to request enhancement data from the server, the mobile device is configured to receive the broadcast message from the television and transmit a request to the server in response to receiving…
Perceptual color transformations for wide color gamut video coding
Granted: April 9, 2019
Patent Number:
10257526
A video coding pipeline is provided that can accommodate high dynamic range (HDR) and wide color gamut (WCG) content at a fixed bitrate. The video coding pipeline relies on separate chromaticity and luminance-specific transforms in order to process image content. Image content may be converted into a nearly perceptually uniform color space for coding in constant luminance. Moreover, chromaticity transforms are utilized which reduce coding errors in the chroma components (at the fixed…
Association of user interactions at a first venue with the user for use in a second venue
Granted: April 9, 2019
Patent Number:
10257245
There is provided a server and method for association of user interactions of a first venue and a second venue. The server including a memory storing a user profile of a user and a hardware processor, wherein the hardware processor may be configured to receive first user interactions of the user with a first system in a first venue, the first user interactions including a request for playing a first media content using the first system in the first venue, store the first user…
Augmented reality interactive experience
Granted: April 9, 2019
Patent Number:
10255725
An augmented reality (AR) system for providing an AR experience to a user of an AR venue includes a hardware processor, a memory, a light detector, a display, and an AR application stored in the memory. The hardware processor can execute the AR application to provide a virtual environment corresponding to the AR venue on the display, and to detect a light event resulting from interaction of an infrared (IR) light produced by an AR accessory utilized by the user with a surface within the…
System and method of gaze predictive rendering of a focal area of an animation
Granted: April 9, 2019
Patent Number:
10255714
Individual images for individual frames of an animation may be rendered to include individual focal areas. A focal area may include one or more of a foveal region corresponding to a gaze direction of a user, an area surrounding the foveal region, and/or other components. The foveal region may comprise a region along the user's line of sight that permits high visual acuity with respect to a periphery of the line of sight. A focal area within an image may be rendered based on parameter…
Collecting consumer information
Granted: April 9, 2019
Patent Number:
10255607
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for collecting consumer information. A first message is received from a portable communication device having a device identifier. The first message includes an item code that identifies a promotional item. It is verified whether the device identifier is registered for a promotional service corresponding to the item code. If the device identifier is not registered for the promotional service, a second message is sent to…
System and method for proximity-based personalized content recommendations
Granted: April 9, 2019
Patent Number:
10255284
Systems and methods for generating and outputting personalized content recommendations are provided. When it is determined that two or more users are in close proximity to each other, the two or more users' respective media content libraries may be compared. Commonalities or related aspects of the two or more users' respective media content libraries can be determined and leveraged to generated personalized content recommendations.
System and method for providing a user interface for media navigation by attribute compass
Granted: April 9, 2019
Patent Number:
10254909
There is provided a system and method for providing a user interface for media navigation by attribute compass. The system comprises a processor configured to show, on a display, a grid view of a plurality of media items. The processor is further configured to present, on the display, a plurality of attribute compasses associated with the media item selected from the plurality of media items, designate the selected media item as a pivot item upon receiving a selection of an attribute…
System and method for real-time age profiling
Granted: April 9, 2019
Patent Number:
10254841
There are provided systems and methods for real-time age profiling. One system includes at least one sensor, a memory storing an algorithm, and a processor configured to execute the algorithm to receive data corresponding to a user interaction with the at least one sensor and calculate an age of a user using the data corresponding to the user interaction. The data corresponding to the user interaction may include pressure data from a pressure sensor, orientation data from an orientation…
Bottle lid
Granted: April 2, 2019
Patent Number:
D844376
Data mining to determine online user responses to broadcast messages
Granted: April 2, 2019
Patent Number:
10248960
In a networked system, a method and apparatus for measuring advertising effectiveness involves broadcasting an advertisement at a broadcast time, monitoring at least one social network or other online forum following the broadcast time, filtering social network traffic to identify messages, search engine queries to identify queries, or other traffic entries, that appear to be responsive to the broadcast advertisement, determining a time of initiation for at least a plurality of entries…
Systems and methods for contextual video shot aggregation
Granted: April 2, 2019
Patent Number:
10248864
There is provided a method that includes receiving a video having video shots, and creating video shot groups based on similarities between the video shots, where each video shot group of the video shot groups includes one or more of the video shots and has different ones of the video shots than other video shot groups. The method further includes creating at least one video supergroup including at least one video shot group of the video shot groups based on interactions among the one or…
