ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,886, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Contextual text lookup for images" was invented by Ryan S. Dixon (Mountain View, Calif.), Pulah J. Shah (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology provides for contextual text lookup for images. When a request is received by an electronic device to perform a lookup or search for text in an image that is displayed at the electronic device, the electronic device may obtain one or more search results, based on the text itself and based on contextual information derived, by the electronic device, from t...