US Patent Issued to UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for optical performance captured animated figure with real-time reactive projected media" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,044, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS LLC (Universal City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for optical performance captured animated figure with real-time reactive projected media" was invented by Anthony Alexander Mecca (Winter Garden, Fla.) and Timothy J. Eck (Windermere, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reactive media system of includes a motion control system. The motion control system includes an animated figure having a figure portion. The motion control system also includes a set of trackers coupled to a first surface of the figure portion. Each tracker of the set of trackers is configured to emit a...