公开(公告)号：US11590660B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-28

申请号：US16447909

申请日：2019-06-20

Applicant: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.

Inventor： Kyle G. Freeman ,  Michael Fusco ,  Jeremy Andrew Mika ,  Michael Richard Honeck ,  Jon Hayes Snoddy ,  Shelley Short ,  Cory Rouse ,  Raymond J. Scanlon ,  Clifford Wong ,  Lance Duane Updyke ,  Jeremie Papon ,  Daniel Pike

IPC: B25J11/00 ,  A63G31/02 ,  B25J9/16 ,  G05B19/406 ,  G05B19/4155 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G05D1/02 ,  G01S17/89

Abstract: An interactive autonomous robot is configured for deployment within a social environment. The disclosed robot includes a show subsystem configured to select between different in-character behaviors depending on robot status, thereby allowing the robot to appear in-character despite technical failures. The disclosed robot further includes a safety subsystem configured to intervene with in-character behavior when necessary to enforce safety protocols. The disclosed robot is also configured with a social subsystem that interprets social behaviors of humans and then initiates specific behavior sequences in response.

公开(公告)号：US10723455B1

公开(公告)日：2020-07-28

申请号：US16558517

申请日：2019-09-03

Applicant: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.

Inventor： Pehr L. Hovey ,  Madeline R. Zupan ,  Anthony Paul Dohi ,  David Loyal Christensen ,  Jon Hayes Snoddy ,  Morgan T. Pope

IPC: B64D1/02 ,  B64C39/02 ,  A63J5/02 ,  B64D1/18

Abstract: An aerial show system that includes unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), show systems onboard the UAVs, non-UAV or “ground” show systems, and a global ground control system. The control system is configured to actively track a UAV's operations during a show performance and to react to make the UAV truly a part of the larger show performance. The system achieves dynamic show participation of the UAV with the distributed show systems, which may include other UAVs and non-UAV show systems on the ground but launch or provide effects in the airspace through which the UAV flies. For example, the control system may track a UAV with a show effect element to determine whether the UAV properly hits its cue or mark with respect to position and orientation in the show space and with respect to timing and, in response to location tracking, trigger show effects early, late, or on time.

公开(公告)号：US20230259693A1

公开(公告)日：2023-08-17

申请号：US17674355

申请日：2022-02-17

Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.

Inventor： Douglas A. Fidaleo ,  Jon Hayes Snoddy

IPC: G06F40/166 ,  G06F40/30

CPC classification number: G06F40/166 ,  G06F40/30

Abstract: A system includes a computing platform having processing hardware and a memory storing a software code. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to receive input data from a user, determine, using the input data, an intent of the user and a commentator persona for providing a commentary to the user, and obtain, based on the input data, content data for use in the commentary. The processing hardware is further configured to execute the software code to generate, based on the intent of the user and using the content data, a script for the commentary, transform the script, using the commentator persona, to a commentator-specific script for the commentary, and output the commentary to the user, using the commentator-specific script.

公开(公告)号：US20230244900A1

公开(公告)日：2023-08-03

申请号：US17587350

申请日：2022-01-28

Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.

Inventor： Douglas A. Fidaleo ,  James R. Kennedy ,  Jon Hayes Snoddy ,  Jeremie A. Papon

IPC: G06N3/00 ,  G06N20/00 ,  B25J11/00 ,  G10L13/027

CPC classification number: G06N3/006 ,  G06N20/00 ,  B25J11/0015 ,  B25J11/001 ,  G10L13/027

Abstract: A system for performing automated multi-persona response generation includes processing hardware, a display, and a memory storing a software code. The processing hardware executes the software code to receive input data describing an action and identifying a multiple interaction profiles corresponding respectively to multiple participants in the action, obtain the interaction profiles, and simulate execution of the action with respect to each of the participants. The processing hardware is further configured to execute the software code to generate, using the interaction profiles, a respective response to the action for each of the participants to provide multiple responses. In various implementations, one or more of those multiple responses may be used to train additional artificial intelligence (AI) systems, or may be rendered to an output device in the form of one or more of a display, an audio output device, or a robot, for example.

公开(公告)号：US09212805B2

公开(公告)日：2015-12-15

申请号：US14055735

申请日：2013-10-16

Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.

Inventor： Daniel J. Reetz ,  Quinn Y. Smithwick ,  Lanny S. Smoot ,  Jon Hayes Snoddy

IPC: F21V1/00 ,  F21V7/05 ,  F21V13/08 ,  F21V9/10 ,  H05B37/02 ,  H04N5/74 ,  A63J5/00 ,  F21S10/00 ,  F21V14/02 ,  F21Y101/02 ,  F21W131/406 ,  F21Y103/00 ,  F21Y111/00

CPC classification number: F21V7/05 ,  A63J5/00 ,  F21S10/00 ,  F21V9/40 ,  F21V13/08 ,  F21V14/02 ,  F21W2131/406 ,  F21Y2103/00 ,  F21Y2107/30 ,  F21Y2115/10 ,  H04N5/74 ,  H05B33/0803 ,  H05B33/0857 ,  H05B37/0227 ,  H05B37/029

Abstract: A special effects (FX) system for generating a penumbra or glow effect about an object. Briefly, the FX system includes at least one sheet of retroreflective material and a penumbra activator. The penumbra activator is designed to selectively direct light toward a reflective surface of the retroreflective material. For example, the penumbra activator may include an elongated core element extending from a hilt. The body of the core element may include strings or sets of direction light sources, which may be spaced apart along the length of external surfaces of the core element body. A controller is used to operate the light sources such as by sequentially illuminating the lights sources from an end near the base/hilt to an end near a tip/distal end of the core element body, with earlier lit sources remaining on in some cases to cause a light sword blade to grow out of the hilt.

Abstract translation: 用于产生关于物体的半影或辉光效果的特殊效果（FX）系统。 简而言之，FX系统包括至少一个回射材料片和半暗影动片。 半影激活器被设计成选择性地将光引导到逆反射材料的反射表面。 例如，半影激活器可以包括从刀柄延伸的细长的芯部元件。 芯元件的主体可以包括一组或多组方向光源，其可以沿着芯体元件主体的外表面的长度间隔开。 控制器用于操作光源，例如通过从靠近基座/刀柄的端部顺序地将光源照射到靠近核心元件主体的尖端/远端的端部，在某些情况下保持较早的点亮源 导致一把轻剑刀从刀柄长出来。