US 11,816,758 B2
Techniques for preloading and displaying high quality image data
John David Smith, Orlando, FL (US); Akiva Meir Krauthamer, Orlando, FL (US); and Justin Allen Hare, Windermere, FL (US)
Assigned to Universal City Studios LLC, Universal City, CA (US)
Filed by Universal City Studios LLC, Universal City, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 12, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/200,255.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/002,056, filed on Mar. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0304448 A1, Sep. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. G06T 11/00 (2006.01); G06T 1/60 (2006.01); H04L 67/131 (2022.01)
CPC G06T 11/00 (2013.01) [G06T 1/60 (2013.01); H04L 67/131 (2022.05); G06T 2210/36 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising:
one or more processors; and
a memory, accessible by the one or more processors, storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
receiving data associated with a user from at least one or more input devices or one or more sensors;
determining that the received data corresponds to a direction of movement by the user through a virtual reality (VR) environment, augmented reality (AR) environment, or mixed reality (MR) environment;
transmitting a tile of high quality image data to a display device based on the direction of movement by the user;
transmitting a command to the display device to display one or more aspects of a region of the VR environment, the AR environment, or the MR environment based on the tile of high quality image data; and
preloading one or more additional tiles of high quality image data into a preloader based on a frequency that the user visits the region.