Disney Enterprises, Inc.

Bell Communications Research, Inc.

Other

At&t Bell Laboratories

Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

California Institute of Technology

Bell Telephone Laboratories

Pixar

Disney Enterprise, Inc.

Lanny Starkes Smoot

Quinn Smithwick

Daniel James Reetz

Scott Frazier Watson

David Loyal Christensen

Jonathan Michael Ackley

Terence J Nelson

David Alan Braun

Nitzan Katz

Gunter D Niemeyer

Gary W Schnuckle

Alfredo Medina Ayala

Michael John Ilardi

Robert J Bristow

Armen Mkrtchyan

Hung-Hsiang J Chao

Günter D Niemeyer

David F Barnett

Leonard J Mazzocco

Eli Joseph Romaire

Todd P Camill

Peter Anastasios Chevako

Jarvis Schultz

Daniel Mark Joseph

Markus Gross

Jon Hayes Snoddy

Katherine May Bassett

Simon Heinzle

Christopher James Purvis

Michael Richard Honeck

Stephen B Weinstein

Haim Kobrinski

Michael Holton

Gennady Shtirmer

Nicola V Ranieri

Alexander W Hsing

Alexander Gelman

William McArdle

David J McCall

Terry O Sandin

Adam B Forster

Marcus Hammond

William A Nilson, Iii

Vinay Chawda

Matthew Keith Xi-Jie Pan

Michael Paul Goslin

Wojciech Matusik

Alexander Sorkine Hornung

Mark A Reichow

Joseph L Olson

Philip John Jackson

Holger Irmler

Loren C Carpenter

Steven Tadashi Kosakura

Alexis Paul Wieland

Anselm Grundhofer

Thomas Helm Judd

Thomas J Robe

Steven Makofsky

Joseph George Hager, Iv

Thomas Tracey Tait

Jonathan Rosenberg

Yael Pritch

James R Kennedy

Harout Jarchafjian

Frank Mezzatesta, Jr

Gil C Cruz

Moritz Niklaus Bächer

Amy K Van Gilder

Lars Espen Knoop

Robert P Michel

Kyna P McIntosh

Chester M Day, Jr

Alfredo M Ayala, Jr

Shelley O Short

Loyal J Pyczynski

Amber Samdahl

James Stephen Frankenberger

Deborah Susan Kurth

Matthew K Pan

Aaron D Ames

Sungjoon Choi

Frank D Mezzatesta, Iii

Mark W Beckner

Ronit Slyper

Alex Stahl

Arthur Jun Tanaka

Don Kravitz

Danny J Donnell

Kenneth L Knowles

Cynthia Rueyi Sung

Daniel De Jesus Campos Zamora

Donald L Martulli

Steven L Rohall

Neil M Haller

Bryan L Bingham

Jack Wetherell

Michael Ryan Enriquez Arevalo

Timothy Caldwell

Dirk Ruiken

National Inventors Hall of Fame Profile on Lanny Smoot

An interactive user experience system is disclosed. The system includes a processor, a display in electrical communication with the processor and configured to display a visual content of interactive content, a modular tile floor in electrical communication with the processor and including a plurality of tiles configured to move independently to induce or respond to a desired motion for a user in contact with the modular tile floor, a sensor in electrical communication with the processor. The sensor detects at least one of an orientation or a position of the user on the modular tile floor, and based on the detected orientation or position of the user, the processor modifies at least one of the visual content or a movement of the plurality of tiles.

Modular omnidirectional actuated floors providing an interactive user experience

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 second light with one of the plurality of light signatures, and perform an action in response to matching the second light with the one of the plurality of light signatures.

Systems and methods for detecting light signatures and performing actions in response thereto

Handheld picture reader

LED snow globe

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 content for display on the display device.

Dynamic media content for in-store screen experiences

According to one implementation, an interactive retail venue includes a computing platform interactively linked to a display screen, a lighting system, an audio system, a dynamic product display unit, and multiple product sensors. The computing platform includes a hardware processor and a memory storing a venue orchestration software code. The hardware processor executes the venue orchestration software code to receive sensor data from the product sensors, determine respective locations of retail products within the interactive retail venue based on the sensor data, and present a multi-media entertainment featuring the retail products using the display screen, the lighting system, and the audio system. The hardware processor further executes the venue orchestration software code to concurrently activate the dynamic product display unit if at least one of the retail products is situated within a predetermined distance of the dynamic product display unit.

Systems and methods of presenting a multi-media entertainment in a venue

A system for sensing and controlling eye contact for a robot. The system includes a robotic figure with a movable eye. The system includes a light source positioned in the robotic figure to output light through a light outlet of the eye. A light sensor is included that senses light striking surfaces in a physical space in which the robotic figure is positioned including the output light from the light source. The system includes an image processor processing output of the light sensor to identify a location of a target formed by the output light striking surfaces in the physical space and to identify a location of a face of a human. Further, the system includes a robot controller generating eye movement control signals based on the location of the target and the location of the face to position the eye to provide eye contact with the human observer.

Eye contact sensing and control for robotic characters

Interactive retail venue

There is provided a system including a non-transitory memory storing an executable code and a hardware processor executing the code to receive a video content including a plurality of frames showing a scene from a perspective of a real camera, create a three-dimensional (3D) model of the scene using the plurality of frames, store the 3D model of the scene in the non-transitory memory, construct a synthetic view of the scene showing additional perspectives from one or more virtual cameras at one or more locations in the scene, transmit the synthetic view of the scene for being displayed on a display, display a scene of the video content on the display, track a position of a viewer moving in a room, and adjust the display of the scene being displayed on the display based on the position of the viewer in the room relative to the display.

Systems and methods for dynamically adjusting a synthetic view of a scene for showing the scene from a virtual camera perspective

According to one implementation, a system for automating customer assistance includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a venue inventory and activity guide software code. The hardware processor is configured to execute the venue inventory and activity guide software code to receive a query from a customer of the retail venue, and determine if the query corresponds to either a retail product or an experience available at the retail venue. If the retail product or the experience is not available at the retail venue, the hardware processor executes the venue inventory and activity guide software code to generate a negative response. If the retail product or the experience is available at the retail venue, the hardware processor executes the venue inventory and activity guide software code to identify a location of the retail product or the experience, and guide the customer to the location.

Retail venue providing automated customer assistance

A display system is provided that combines the use of a display element with a beamsplitter and at least one retroreflector to provide an image (2D or 3D depending upon the output image from the display element) that appears to be floating in space some distance from the beamsplitter. For example, light that is bounced off/reflected and/or that is transmitted through the beamsplitter may be reflected from the reflective surface of the retroreflector toward the beamsplitter. The beamsplitter directs this light, through reflection or transmission, into a viewing space such that the 2D or 3D image can be viewed by a viewer as it appears to float a distance from the nearest surface of the beamsplitter and, typically, some distance above the ground/floor upon which viewers are walking. The floating image may be relatively bright so that it is viewable in low and brighter light conditions.

Retroreflector display system for generating floating image effects

A system configured for stabilizing or balancing objects in an upright state. The system includes a motion system with an upper support surface for receiving an object that is positionable in a vertical state. The system includes a sensor assembly with at least one sensor generating sensor data by tracking at least one of three dimensional (3D) position and angular movement for the object. The system includes a controller with a stabilizing module to process the sensor data to determine when the object is tipping from the vertical state, and, in response to the tipping away of the object from the vertical state, the stabilizing module generates control signals to modify operations of the motion system to move at least a portion of the upper support surface in contact with a lower contact surface of the object through stabilizing movements, whereby the object remains balanced in the vertical state.

System for stabilizing an object to control tipping during omnidirectional movement

A haptic floor system is provided that produces large vibration-based effects through the use of one-to-many panel or plate assemblies that can each be selectively operated by a controller in a programmed manner or in response to sensor outputs. Each of these panel or plate assemblies may be labeled a 'quake plate assembly' as the special effect delivered by the haptic floor system can provide a person supported by one of the quake plate assemblies with ground trembling and vibrations similar to that felt in an earthquake or when a super strong fictional character strikes the floor nearby or a large animal or robot walks or runs by the person. Each quake plate assembly may include a thin plate or panel with an upper contact surface for supporting people or objects and an opposite lower surface, and one-to-many actuators may be provided on the lower surface of the thin plate.

Haptic floor system with quake plate assemblies producing large vibration effects

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Thousand Oaks, CA, United States of America

Lanny Starkes Smoot