Disney patents tracking body parts without identifying individuals
This filing describes a system that uses sensors to track specific body parts, like hands or heads, by matching them against a database of images. Instead of tracking a specific person, it groups these parts into anonymous body segments to detect movement, posture, or gestures. The system then uses this data to trigger visual effects on a connected display.
In the filing’s own words
A system includes a computing platform communicatively coupled to a sensor and a display, the computing platform having a hardware processor, and a memory storing software code and a database comprising images corresponding to human physical features. The hardware processor executes the software code to detect, using sensor data, the presence of a user, identify, using the database and the sensor data, respective locations of physical features of the user, merge the locations of the physical features to determine a position data for at least one anonymized body segment of the user, track, using the sensor data, changes in the position data, and determine, based on tracking, at least one of the location of the user in relation to the sensor, or a posture or gesture by the user. The hardware processor further executes the software code to generate, using the display, an interactive effect responsive to the user.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An interactive system comprising: a computing platform communicatively coupled to a sensor and a display; the computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a software code and a database comprising images corresponding respectively to human physical features; the hardware processor configured to execute the software code to: detect, using sensor data received from the sensor, a presence of a user; identify, using the database and the sensor data, respective locations of a plurality of physical features of the user; average the respective locations of the plurality of physical features to determine a position data for at least one anonymized body segment of the user; track, using the sensor data, changes in the position data for the at least one anonymized body segment of the user; determine, based on tracking, at least one of a location of the user in relation to the sensor, a posture of the user, or a gesture by the user; and generate, using the display, an interactive effect responsive to the at least one of the location of the user, the posture of the user, or the gesture by the user.
Facts
- Company
- Disney (Disney Enterprises, Inc.)
- Official title
- Anonymized Human Body Tracking
- Publication number
- US20260310288A1
- Application number
- 19173636
- Filed
- Apr 8, 2025
- Published
- Oct 8, 2026
- Inventors
- 6
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 3/012 Physics & computingG06F 3/017 Physics & computingMore from Disney in AI & software
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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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