公开(公告)号：US09646587B1

公开(公告)日：2017-05-09

申请号：US15064788

申请日：2016-03-09

Applicant: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.

Inventor： Jonathan Michael Becker ,  James R. Robertson ,  Dolce Lin Wang

IPC: G10H1/36 ,  G10H1/00 ,  G10H1/40 ,  G10H1/46

CPC classification number: G10H1/0025 ,  G10H1/0066 ,  G10H1/361 ,  G10H1/46 ,  G10H2210/026 ,  G10H2220/145 ,  G10H2220/411 ,  G10H2220/525 ,  G10H2240/175 ,  G10H2240/305 ,  G10H2240/325

Abstract: A musical game system and associated methods configured to allow for unguided, free-form group-based musical expressivity during generation of a collaborative digital music track (or “song”). The musical game system is designed to provide a hardware and software pipeline that functions to record, quantize, and loop multiple (e.g., 1 to 15 or more) users' inputs (e.g., via a piezoelectric MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) controllers or triggered instruments or other user input devices) in a dynamic playback space. The musical game system further functions to provide volume attenuation and localization of playback to enable participants to express themselves with their user inputs with complete agency while simultaneously adding to an overarching, collaborative musical composition generated using their user inputs and other participants' user inputs. The collaborative musical composition is created by the system so as to maintain coherence and tonality regardless of the user inputs the system receives and processes.

公开(公告)号：US10338686B2

公开(公告)日：2019-07-02

申请号：US15086561

申请日：2016-03-31

Applicant: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.

Inventor： James R. Robertson ,  Raymond J. Scanlon ,  Michael R. Honeck ,  Angela Jay ,  Cory J. Rouse ,  Holger Irmler

IPC: G06F3/01 ,  G06F3/0484 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  G06K9/00

Abstract: A method for facilitating and enhancing computer-based authoring of gesture definitions that are useful in controlling a walk-around character and other systems using gesture controls. The method includes, during performance of a gesture by a performer, collecting sets of raw sensor data each corresponding to differing parameters of the performance of the gesture. The method includes displaying a graphical user interface with a graphical plot of each of the sets of raw sensor data. The method includes receiving user input identifying which of the parameters to include in a gesture definition. The method includes, for the graphical plots associated with the chosen parameters receiving user input defining a starting position, an ending position, a maximum value, and a minimum value. The gesture may involve movement of a performer's arms, legs, hands, head, eyes, and so on in a particular manner.

公开(公告)号：US09457466B2

公开(公告)日：2016-10-04

申请号：US14460725

申请日：2014-08-15

Applicant: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.

Inventor： James R. Robertson ,  Philip J. Jackson

IPC: B25J9/14 ,  B25J11/00 ,  B25J17/00 ,  B25J17/02 ,  B25J19/00 ,  B25J19/06

CPC classification number: B25J9/142 ,  B25J17/00 ,  B25J17/0233 ,  B25J19/0091 ,  B25J19/063 ,  B25J19/068

Abstract: A robot that includes two or more skeletal or rigid links interconnected by a joint. The joint is pneumatically actuated and includes a pneumatic joint actuator that allows the robot's skeletal links to be moved in an expressive manner. The pneumatic actuator includes a pair of opposing air bladders encased within a housing or body of the joint. Each air bladder is positioned on an opposite side of an actuating lever arm, which is rigidly attached to one of the skeletal links and is pivotally mounted on the joint body or housing. Movement of the actuating lever arm causes the attached skeletal link to pivot. To obtain this selective movement, one of the two air bladders is filled with a gas, such as air, while the other is left un-inflated or less inflated, and this forces the lever arm and attached skeletal link to pivot about their mounting point.

Abstract translation: 一种机器人，包括两个或多个通过关节互连的骨架或刚性连杆。 接头是气动致动的，并且包括气动接头致动器，其允许机器人的骨架链节以表现方式移动。 气动致动器包括一对相对的气囊，其包围在接头的壳体或主体内。 每个气囊位于致动杆臂的相对侧上，其致动杆臂刚性地附接到骨架连杆中的一个，并且枢转地安装在接头本体或壳体上。 致动杠杆臂的运动导致附着的骨架连杆枢轴转动。 为了获得这种选择性运动，两个气囊中的一个充满气体，例如空气，而另一个空气不被充气或较少膨胀，这迫使杠杆臂和附接的骨架链节围绕其安装点枢转 。