Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Time Warner Entertainment Company, L.p.

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Inc.

Warner Home Video Inc.

Other

Telectronics Pacing Systems, Inc.

Time Warner Inc.

Warner Bros. Home Enterteinment Inc.

Lewis S Ostrover

Christopher J Cookson

Warren N Lieberfarb

Gregory I Gewickey

Michael S Smith

Bradley Collar

Gary Lake-Schaal

Darcy Antonellis

Michael Zink

Christopher DeFaria

Piotr Mintus

Michael Smith

Arvel A Chappell, Iii

Massimiliano Gasparri

Gregory B Thagard

Prashant Abhyankar

Pamela J Allison

Adam Husein

Joseph E Wall, Iii

Ha Nguyen

Alan E Bell

Wayne M Smith

Greg Gewickey

Matthew Huard

Wayne B Smith

Steven M Blumenfeld

Justin Herz

William Zajac

Thomas Gewecke

Genevieve Morris

Lea Carla L Buenaventura

Harold C Mack

Arvel A Chappell

Lurinda Chin

Victoria L Colf

Keith Camoosa

Brian Kursar

Donald Roache

Greg Gewicke

Bradley Thomas Collar

Vicky Colf

A sensor coupled to an AR/VR headset detects an eye convergence distance. A processor adjusts a focus distance for a virtual camera that determines rendering of a three-dimensional (3D) object for a display device of the headset, based on at least one of the eye convergence distance or a directed focus of attention for the at least one of the VR content or the AR content.

Social and procedural effects for computer-generated environments

A method and apparatus for controlling a social robot includes operating an electronic output device based on social interactions between the social robot and a user. The social robot utilizes an algorithm or other logical solution process to infer a user mental state, for example a mood or desire, based on observation of the social interaction. Based on the inferred mental state, the social robot causes an action of the electronic output device to be selected. Actions may include, for example, playing a selected video clip, brewing a cup of coffee, or adjusting window blinds.

Social robot with environmental control feature

A computer-implemented method in conjunction with mixed reality gear (e.g., a headset) includes imaging a real scene encompassing a user wearing a mixed reality output apparatus. The method includes determining data describing a real context of the real scene, based on the imaging; for example, identifying or classifying objects, lighting, sound or persons in the scene. The method includes selecting a set of content including content enabling rendering of at least one virtual object from a content library, based on the data describing a real context, using various selection algorithms. The method includes rendering the virtual object in the mixed reality session by the mixed reality output apparatus, optionally based on the data describing a real context ('context parameters'). An apparatus is configured to perform the method using hardware, firmware, and/or software.

Mixed reality system for context-aware virtual object rendering

A computer-implemented method for providing electronics games for play by a group of users in two or more moving vehicles. The method includes maintaining data structures of media program data, user profile data and vehicle profile data, receiving user and vehicle state information, identifying a group of users based on contemporaneous presence in two or more vehicles or common participation in a game or other group experience for related trips at different times, and selecting, configuring or creating media program for play at media players. An apparatus or system is configured to perform the method, and related operations.

Inter-vehicle electronic games

A smart media player configures interactive media customized for passengers temporarily sharing a common conveyance (e.g., an automobile or other vehicle), using programmed methods. The methods include identifying profile data for each of the passengers and trip data for the common conveyance. Then, the smart media player may select an interactive media title for the passengers as a group based on at least one of the profile data or the trip data, including one or more of a variety of games for playing with other passengers in the vehicle. The interactive media title may be configured for output by the smart media player while the passengers are sharing the common conveyance. The media player plays the interactive media title in the common conveyance enabled for interaction with the passengers during the period.

Intra-vehicle games

Applications for a Content Engagement Power (CEP) value include generating a script, text, or other communication content or for controlling playout of communication content based on neuro-physiological data, gathering neuro-physiological data correlated to consumption of communication content, or rating effectiveness of personal communications. The CEP is computed based on neuro-physiological sensor data processed to express engagement with content along multiple dimensions such as valence, arousal, and dominance. An apparatus is configured to perform the method using hardware, firmware, and/or software.

Content generation and control using sensor data for detection of neurological state

A game modification engine modifies configuration settings affecting game play and the user experience in computer games after initial publication of the game, based on device level and game play data associated with a user or cohort of users and on machine-learned relationships between input data and a use metric for the game. The modification is selected to improve performance of the game as measured by the use metric. The modification may be tailored for a user cohort. The game modification engine may define the cohort automatically based on correlations discovered in the input data relative to a defined use metric.

Flexible computer gaming based on machine learning

An entertainment system provides data to a common screen (e.g., cinema screen) and personal immersive reality devices. For example, a cinematic data distribution server communicates with multiple immersive output devices each configured for providing immersive output (e.g., a virtual reality output) based on a data signal. Each of the multiple immersive output devices is present within eyesight of a common display screen. The server configures the data signal based on digital cinematic master data that includes immersive reality data. The server transmits the data signal to the multiple immersive output devices contemporaneously with each other, and optionally contemporaneously with providing a coordinated audio-video signal for output via the common display screen and shared audio system.

Cinematic mastering for virtual reality and augmented reality

A processor provides a simulated three-dimensional (3D) environment for a game or virtual reality (VR) experience, including controlling a characteristic parameter of a 3D object or character based on at least one of: an asynchronous event in a second game, feedback from multiple synchronous users of the VR experience, or on a function driven by one or variables reflecting a current state of at least one of the 3D environment, the game or the VR experience.

Methods and apparatus for improving automatic selection and timing of messages by a machine or system of machines include an inductive computational process driven by log-level network data from mobile devices and other network-connected devices, optionally in addition to traditional application-level data from cookies or the like. The methods and apparatus may be used, for example, to improve or optimize effectiveness of automatically-generated electronic communications with consumers and potential consumers for achieving a specified target.

Consumer intelligence for automatic real time message decisions and selection

A method and apparatus for controlling a social robot includes providing a set of quantitative personality trait values, also called a 'personality profile' to a decision engine of the social robot. The personality profile is derived from a character portrayal in a fictional work, dramatic performance, or by a real-life person (any one of these sometime referred to herein as a 'source character'). The decision engine controls social responses of the social robot to environmental stimuli, based in part on the set of personality trait values. The social robot thereby behaves in a manner consistent with the personality profile for the profiled source character.

Control of social robot based on prior character portrayal

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Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Lewis S Ostrover