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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2018
Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);
Lanny S. Smoot, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
David Loyal Christensen, Glendale, CA (US);
Gunter D. Niemeyer, Pasadena, CA (US);
Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);
Abstract
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.