Disney Enterprises has filed two patents describing artificial intelligence characters designed to make interactions feel more personal by drawing on memories shared by guests.
The first patent, filed June 29, 2026, outlines an AI interactive character that prompts a guest to recall an experience, then uses a trained machine-learning model to identify elements such as people, places, activities and emotional context. The system compares those details with a character-specific memory structure to generate a response that could include dialogue, facial expressions or movement.
If the system finds no sufficiently similar character memory, the patent describes adding a new one. The filing calls this a “hallucinated memory,” meaning an improvised piece of character backstory used to support the interaction.
A second patent, published the same day and filed by an overlapping team, describes a related process for creating a performance instead of a conversational reply. After identifying a guest memory and matching it to the character’s stored memories, the system could determine a mood and generate a song, poem or dance for the character to perform.
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The patents describe possible technology for robotic, animated and other interactive characters in parks or other settings, but Disney has not announced plans to use either system. A patent filing does not confirm that a concept will be developed or introduced to guests.
