TASK MEMBERSHIP AND TASK MASKS

Patent №

US 7,917,535

Granted

2011-03-29

Filed 2008

Owner

PIXAR

Lab

AI components

4

vision · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12042249

Components are presented to users based on the components' assigned task memberships. The tasks represents the different activities performed by users within a digital production pipeline. Each stage of the digital production pipeline may be associated with a task. Additional user-defined tasks may be defined as needed to further distinguish components. Attributes of components are associated with one or more tasks when the component is authored. Task memberships may be inherited from parent components or overridden. A user interface includes a task selection menu to receive a selection of one or more tasks from the user. The task selection is used to filter components, so that the user interface presents only relevant information to users. Component attribute values and task associations can be expressed using layer data structures. Task restrictions of layers allow layers to only specify values of components that match the task associations of the layer.

AI classification

Planning1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
AI hardware0.98
Vision0.71
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00
Natural language0.00
Machine learning0.00

Ownership

PIXAR

assignment · 206370031

Assignors

GREGORY, ERIC, FERRIS, MICHAEL, JENSEN, ROBERT, JACOB, OREN, MILLIRON, TIM

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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