Patents by Inventor Frank Z. Brill

Frank Z. Brill has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10877816
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining a plurality of tasks, where certain tasks have a dependency relationship to other tasks. The method also includes arranging the tasks into multiple levels based on the dependency relationships between the tasks, each level having at least one task. The method further includes, for a particular level, determining a list of possible assignment scenarios of the at least one task of the level to multiple processing devices, determining a cost for each of the assignment scenarios, and selecting the assignment scenario having a lowest cost. Each assignment scenario includes an assignment of each of the at least one task of the level to one of the processing devices. The method includes also building a schedule by assigning the tasks to the processing devices based on the selected assignment scenarios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Frank Z. Brill
  • Publication number: 20170308411
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining a plurality of tasks, where certain tasks have a dependency relationship to other tasks. The method also includes arranging the tasks into multiple levels based on the dependency relationships between the tasks, each level having at least one task. The method further includes, for a particular level, determining a list of possible assignment scenarios of the at least one task of the level to multiple processing devices, determining a cost for each of the assignment scenarios, and selecting the assignment scenario having a lowest cost. Each assignment scenario includes an assignment of each of the at least one task of the level to one of the processing devices. The method includes also building a schedule by assigning the tasks to the processing devices based on the selected assignment scenarios.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventor: Frank Z. Brill
  • Patent number: 6937651
    Abstract: A system (10) includes an image detector (12) which is a video camera, and which detects and outputs a succession of video images of a selected subject. A technique for processing these images involves preparing compressed image information. The compressed image information includes a first detected image (FIG. 2A) that serves as a reference image, includes information (FIG. 2G) identifying regions of subsequent detected images that differ from the first image, and excludes at least a portion of each of the subsequent images. The information identifying regions of subsequent detected images is free of contrast information for a substantial portion of each of those regions. The compressed image information for a given image is decompressed by displaying the reference image and by modifying the displayed reference image based on the information identifying differences from the reference image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Frank Z. Brill, Bruce E. Flinchbaugh
  • Patent number: 6816184
    Abstract: A monitoring system (10) includes a video camera (12) which generates images of a monitored area. A computer (16) receives the images from the video camera, and contains a digitized map (85) of the monitored area. One of the detected images (84) is saved as a reference image. An operator defines a first region (86) corresponding to a selected portion of the monitored area, as viewed in the reference image, and defines a second region (87) which corresponds to the selected portion of the area as viewed on the map. Subsequent images from the camera are compared to the reference image, in order to identify an object of interest, and a first point associated with the object is identified. If the first point is within the first region, a warp transformation of the first point from the first region to the second region is carried out, in order to identify within the second region a second point which corresponds to the first point, and which identifies the location on the map of the object of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Frank Z. Brill, Bruce E. Flinchbaugh
  • Patent number: 6628835
    Abstract: Given a system which detects simple events, one can define a complex event by constructing a list of sub-events. In order to recognize a complex event, the system keeps a record of the sub-events that have occurred thus far and the objects involved in these sub-events. Whenever the first sub-event in a complex event's sequence is recognized, an activation for that complex event is created. The activation contains an indication of the identity of the object involved in the event. The activation also includes an index initialized to one. If a newly detected event matches the next sub-event in any of the currently open complex events, the index for that complex event is incremented. If the index reaches the total number of sub-events in that complex event, the complete complex event is recognized. Thus any desired alarm is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Frank Z. Brill, Thomas J. Olson
  • Patent number: 6542621
    Abstract: This invention employs probabilistic templates, or p-templates, which probabilistically encode the rough position and extent of the tracked object's image. The p-templates track objects in the scene, one p-template per object. They can be used to incorporate three-dimensional knowledge about the scene, and to reason about occlusion between the objects tracked by the p-templates. This invention requires video capture and digitization hardware, image processing hardware such as a digital signal processor, and a method for estimating the image size of a person standing at a given location in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Frank Z. Brill, Thomas J. Olson
  • Patent number: 6437808
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for transmitting graphical representations is disclosed. The present invention has an image generator (112) that generates an image (114) of a head (106) with facial features, including an eye portion (202) that correlates to an eye (240) in the head (106). The apparatus also has a non-updating tracker (116) that searches for an eye target image of the eye (240) in the head (106). The eye portion (202) correlating to the eye (240) is positioned at the target image located by the non-updating tracker (116). The apparatus also has an updating tracker (118) that searches for an updated eye target image when the non-updating tracker (116) is unable to locate the eye target image. The updating tracker (118) also positions the eye portion (202) at the updated eye target image and updates the updated eye target image with the eye portion (202). The updating tracker further determines the location of the eye portion (202).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Frank Z. Brill, III, Scott A. King