Disney patents AR glasses that pause movies to add effects
Disney has patented a system where augmented reality glasses watch a movie playing on a separate screen. When the glasses detect a specific scene, they overlay digital effects and send a signal to pause or loop the video on the main screen. The movie only resumes when the user interacts with the AR device.
In the filing’s own words
A system includes an augmented reality (AR) device having a first display, processing hardware, and a memory storing software code. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to monitor media content including a sequence of moving images displayed on a second display separate from the AR device and controlled by a media player device, detect, based on monitoring the media content, an image in the sequence of moving images for enhancement by one or more AR effects. The processing hardware further executes the software code to render the one or more AR effects on the first display, and transmit, contemporaneously with rendering the one or more AR effects on the first display, a signal configured to pause or loop the playing of the media content on the second display.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An augmented reality (AR) device comprising: a first display; a processing hardware; and a memory storing a software code; the processing hardware configured to execute the software code to: monitor playing of a first video on a second display separate from the AR device and controlled by a media player device; render one or more AR effects on the first display, based on monitoring the playing of the first video on the second display; transmit, contemporaneously with rendering the one or more AR effects on the first display, a first signal configured to pause or loop the playing of the first video on the second display; sense an interaction by a user with the AR device; and transmit, in response to sensing the interaction by the user, a second signal configured to cause playing of a second video on the second display.
Facts
- Company
- Disney (Disney Enterprises, Inc.)
- Official title
- User responsive augmented reality enhancement of moving images
- Patent number
- US12725319B2
- Application number
- 18830322
- Filed
- Sep 10, 2024
- Granted
- Sep 1, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06T 11/00 Physics & computingG06F 3/1423 Physics & computingG06F 3/1454 Physics & computingG06T 5/50 Physics & computingG06T 5/94 Physics & computingG06T 2207/10016 Physics & computingMore from Disney in AR, VR & displays
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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