US Patent Issued to ADOBE on Dec. 9 for "Open vocabulary instance segmentation" (California, Washington, Maryland, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,049, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Open vocabulary instance segmentation" was invented by Jason Wen Yong Kuen (Santa Clara, Calif.), Dat Ba Huynh (Boston), Zhe Lin (Clyde Hill, Wash.) and Jiuxiang Gu (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for image processing are described. Embodiments of the present disclosure receive a training image and a caption for the training image, wherein the caption includes text describing an object in the training image; generate a pseudo mask for the object using a teacher network based on the text describing the object; generate a mask for the ob...