Robert Sumner

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Zurich, CH

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Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Information Patent Grant
Location-based interactive storytelling
- Patent number 11,683,662
- Issue date Jun 20, 2023
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Manuel Braunschweiler
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Virtual puppeteering using a portable device
- Patent number 11,628,374
- Issue date Apr 18, 2023
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Raphael Anderegg
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Automated image augmentation using a virtual character
- Patent number 11,600,047
- Issue date Mar 7, 2023
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Martin Guay
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Location-based interactive storytelling
- Patent number 11,445,332
- Issue date Sep 13, 2022
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Manuel Braunschweiler
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Parameterized animation modifications
- Patent number 11,335,051
- Issue date May 17, 2022
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Robert W. Sumner
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods to provide an interactive environment in respon...
- Patent number 11,132,051
- Issue date Sep 28, 2021
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Robert Sumner
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Sketch-based abstraction for character posing and synthesis
- Patent number 11,087,517
- Issue date Aug 10, 2021
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Robert Walker Sumner
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Joint estimation from images
- Patent number 10,916,046
- Issue date Feb 9, 2021
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Martin Guay
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Automated costume augmentation using shape estimation
- Patent number 10,885,708
- Issue date Jan 5, 2021
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Martin Guay
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for generating event-centric animations using a...
- Patent number 10,783,689
- Issue date Sep 22, 2020
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Alexander Shoulson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Deformable-surface tracking based augmented reality image generation
- Patent number 10,726,628
- Issue date Jul 28, 2020
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Robert Sumner
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Precomputed environment semantics for contact-rich character animation
- Patent number 10,713,832
- Issue date Jul 14, 2020
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Robert Sumner
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Automatically generating quadruped locomotion controllers
- Patent number 10,553,009
- Issue date Feb 4, 2020
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Martin Guay
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Modeling interactions between simulated characters and real-world o...
- Patent number 10,445,940
- Issue date Oct 15, 2019
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Martin Guay
- G02 - OPTICS
Information Patent Grant
Deformable-surface tracking based augmented reality image generation
- Patent number 10,373,379
- Issue date Aug 6, 2019
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Robert Sumner
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Haptic interface for population of a three-dimensional virtual envi...
- Patent number 10,359,906
- Issue date Jul 23, 2019
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Robert Sumner
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Augmented reality simulation continuum
- Patent number 10,282,882
- Issue date May 7, 2019
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Robert Sumner
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Augmented reality music composition
- Patent number 10,262,642
- Issue date Apr 16, 2019
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Fabio Zund
- A63 - SPORTS GAMES AMUSEMENTS
Information Patent Grant
Augmented reality device with predefined object data
- Patent number 10,217,289
- Issue date Feb 26, 2019
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Kenneth John Mitchell
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Color balancing based on reference points
- Patent number 10,171,785
- Issue date Jan 1, 2019
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Alexander Sorkine Hornung
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Guided authoring of interactive content
- Patent number 10,067,775
- Issue date Sep 4, 2018
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Mubbasir Kapadia
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Interactive story development system and method for creating a narr...
- Patent number 10,042,506
- Issue date Aug 7, 2018
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Mubbasir Kapadia
- A63 - SPORTS GAMES AMUSEMENTS
Information Patent Grant
Motion control of active deformable objects
- Patent number 9,947,124
- Issue date Apr 17, 2018
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Robert Sumner
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Visual salience of online video as a predictor of success
- Patent number 9,911,202
- Issue date Mar 6, 2018
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Seth Frey
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Fast rig-based physics simulation
- Patent number 9,892,539
- Issue date Feb 13, 2018
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Bernhard Thomaszewski
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Augmented reality device with predefined object data
- Patent number 9,846,965
- Issue date Dec 19, 2017
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Kenneth John Mitchell
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Augmented reality simulation continuum
- Patent number 9,741,145
- Issue date Aug 22, 2017
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Kenny Mitchell
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Techniques for processing reconstructed three-dimensional image data
- Patent number 9,734,628
- Issue date Aug 15, 2017
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Jose Rafael Tena
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Haptic interface for population of a three-dimensional virtual envi...
- Patent number 9,733,790
- Issue date Aug 15, 2017
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Robert Sumner
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Augmented reality music composition
- Patent number 9,679,547
- Issue date Jun 13, 2017
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Fabio Zünd
- G10 - MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ACOUSTICS

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
AUTOMATED IMAGE AUGMENTATION USING A VIRTUAL CHARACTER
- Publication number 20230177784
- Publication date Jun 8, 2023
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Martin Guay
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Location-Based Interactive Storytelling
- Publication number 20220322045
- Publication date Oct 6, 2022
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Manuel Braunschweiler
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Location-Based Interactive Storytelling
- Publication number 20210274314
- Publication date Sep 2, 2021
- Disney Enterprises. Inc.
- Manuel Braunschweiler
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
PARAMETERIZED ANIMATION MODIFICATIONS
- Publication number 20210125393
- Publication date Apr 29, 2021
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Robert W. SUMNER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
TECHNIQUES FOR FEATURE-BASED NEURAL RENDERING
- Publication number 20210019928
- Publication date Jan 21, 2021
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Dominik Tobias BORER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Virtual Puppeteering Using a Portable Device
- Publication number 20210008461
- Publication date Jan 14, 2021
- Disney Enterprises. Inc.
- Raphael Anderegg
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PROVIDE AN INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENT IN RESPON...
- Publication number 20210011542
- Publication date Jan 14, 2021
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Robert Sumner
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
JOINT ESTIMATION FROM IMAGES
- Publication number 20200279428
- Publication date Sep 3, 2020
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Martin GUAY
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
AUTOMATED COSTUME AUGMENTATION USING SHAPE ESTIMATION
- Publication number 20200118333
- Publication date Apr 16, 2020
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Martin Guay
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
AUTOMATED IMAGE AUGMENTATION USING A VIRTUAL CHARACTER
- Publication number 20200027271
- Publication date Jan 23, 2020
- Disney Enterprises. Inc.
- Martin Guay
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING QUADRUPED LOCOMOTION CONTROLLERS
- Publication number 20190287288
- Publication date Sep 19, 2019
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Martin GUAY
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
MODELING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SIMULATED CHARACTERS AND REAL-WORLD O...
- Publication number 20190287305
- Publication date Sep 19, 2019
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Martin GUAY
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Deformable-Surface Tracking Based Augmented Reality Image Generation
- Publication number 20190019342
- Publication date Jan 17, 2019
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Robert Sumner
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
AUGMENTED REALITY DEVICE WITH PREDEFINED OBJECT DATA
- Publication number 20180101993
- Publication date Apr 12, 2018
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Kenneth John MITCHELL
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
PRECOMPUTED ENVIRONMENT SEMANTICS FOR CONTACT-RICH CHARACTER ANIMATION
- Publication number 20170337723
- Publication date Nov 23, 2017
- LUCASFILM ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY LTD.
- Robert Sumner
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
AUGMENTED REALITY SIMULATION CONTINUUM
- Publication number 20170330362
- Publication date Nov 16, 2017
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Robert SUMNER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
HAPTIC INTERFACE FOR POPULATION OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIRTUAL ENVI...
- Publication number 20170322700
- Publication date Nov 9, 2017
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Robert SUMNER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
AUGMENTED REALITY MUSIC COMPOSITION
- Publication number 20170287456
- Publication date Oct 5, 2017
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- FABIO ZUND
- G10 - MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ACOUSTICS
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING EVENT-CENTRIC ANIMATIONS USING A...
- Publication number 20170148200
- Publication date May 25, 2017
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Alexander Shoulson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
COLOR BALANCING BASED ON REFERENCE POINTS
- Publication number 20170078635
- Publication date Mar 16, 2017
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Alexander Sorkine Hornung
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
VISUAL SALIENCE OF ONLINE VIDEO AS A PREDICTOR OF SUCCESS
- Publication number 20170061235
- Publication date Mar 2, 2017
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Seth FREY
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Deformable-Surface Tracking Based Augmented Reality Image Generation
- Publication number 20170053442
- Publication date Feb 23, 2017
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Robert Sumner
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Sketch-Based Abstraction for Character Posing and Synthesis
- Publication number 20160358365
- Publication date Dec 8, 2016
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Robert Walker Sumner
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Interactive Story Development System and Method for Creating a Narr...
- Publication number 20160274705
- Publication date Sep 22, 2016
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Mubbasir Kapadia
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Guided Authoring of Interactive Content
- Publication number 20160246613
- Publication date Aug 25, 2016
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Mubbasir Kapadia
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
TECHNIQUES FOR PROCESSING RECONSTRUCTED THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DATA
- Publication number 20160148427
- Publication date May 26, 2016
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Jose Rafael TENA
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
HAPTIC INTERFACE FOR POPULATION OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIRTUAL ENVI...
- Publication number 20160124608
- Publication date May 5, 2016
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Robert SUMNER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SUBSPACE CLOTHING SIMULATION USING ADAPTIVE BASES
- Publication number 20160093084
- Publication date Mar 31, 2016
- Pixar
- ROBERT SUMNER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Augmented Reality Image Transformation
- Publication number 20150254903
- Publication date Sep 10, 2015
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Robert Sumner
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
MOTION CONTROL OF ACTIVE DEFORMABLE OBJECTS
- Publication number 20150029198
- Publication date Jan 29, 2015
- Pixar
- Robert SUMNER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

Robert Sumner

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Location-based interactive storytelling

Virtual puppeteering using a portable device

Automated image augmentation using a virtual character

Location-based interactive storytelling

Parameterized animation modifications

Systems and methods to provide an interactive environment in respon...

Sketch-based abstraction for character posing and synthesis

Joint estimation from images

Automated costume augmentation using shape estimation

Systems and methods for generating event-centric animations using a...

Deformable-surface tracking based augmented reality image generation

Precomputed environment semantics for contact-rich character animation

Automatically generating quadruped locomotion controllers

Modeling interactions between simulated characters and real-world o...

Deformable-surface tracking based augmented reality image generation

Haptic interface for population of a three-dimensional virtual envi...

Augmented reality simulation continuum

Augmented reality music composition

Augmented reality device with predefined object data

Color balancing based on reference points

Guided authoring of interactive content

Interactive story development system and method for creating a narr...

Motion control of active deformable objects

Visual salience of online video as a predictor of success

Fast rig-based physics simulation

Augmented reality device with predefined object data

Augmented reality simulation continuum

Techniques for processing reconstructed three-dimensional image data

Haptic interface for population of a three-dimensional virtual envi...

Augmented reality music composition

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

AUTOMATED IMAGE AUGMENTATION USING A VIRTUAL CHARACTER

Location-Based Interactive Storytelling

Location-Based Interactive Storytelling

PARAMETERIZED ANIMATION MODIFICATIONS

TECHNIQUES FOR FEATURE-BASED NEURAL RENDERING

Virtual Puppeteering Using a Portable Device

SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PROVIDE AN INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENT IN RESPON...

JOINT ESTIMATION FROM IMAGES

AUTOMATED COSTUME AUGMENTATION USING SHAPE ESTIMATION

AUTOMATED IMAGE AUGMENTATION USING A VIRTUAL CHARACTER

AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING QUADRUPED LOCOMOTION CONTROLLERS

MODELING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SIMULATED CHARACTERS AND REAL-WORLD O...

Deformable-Surface Tracking Based Augmented Reality Image Generation

AUGMENTED REALITY DEVICE WITH PREDEFINED OBJECT DATA

PRECOMPUTED ENVIRONMENT SEMANTICS FOR CONTACT-RICH CHARACTER ANIMATION

AUGMENTED REALITY SIMULATION CONTINUUM

HAPTIC INTERFACE FOR POPULATION OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIRTUAL ENVI...

AUGMENTED REALITY MUSIC COMPOSITION

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING EVENT-CENTRIC ANIMATIONS USING A...

COLOR BALANCING BASED ON REFERENCE POINTS

VISUAL SALIENCE OF ONLINE VIDEO AS A PREDICTOR OF SUCCESS

Deformable-Surface Tracking Based Augmented Reality Image Generation

Sketch-Based Abstraction for Character Posing and Synthesis

Interactive Story Development System and Method for Creating a Narr...

Guided Authoring of Interactive Content

TECHNIQUES FOR PROCESSING RECONSTRUCTED THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DATA

HAPTIC INTERFACE FOR POPULATION OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIRTUAL ENVI...

SUBSPACE CLOTHING SIMULATION USING ADAPTIVE BASES

Augmented Reality Image Transformation

MOTION CONTROL OF ACTIVE DEFORMABLE OBJECTS