ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,013, issued on July 15, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Guided content discovery in visual search" was invented by Hailin Jin (San Jose, Calif.) and John Collomosse (Pyrford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for guided visual search. A visual search query can be represented as a sketch sequence that includes ordering information of the constituent strokes in the sketch. The visual search query can be encoded into a structural search encoding in a common search space by a structural neural network. Indexed visual searc...