US Patent Issued to AVID TECHNOLOGY on April 29 for "Finding the semantic region of interest in images" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,371, issued on April 29, was assigned to AVID TECHNOLOGY INC. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Finding the semantic region of interest in images" was invented by Robert Gonsalves (Wellesley, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Objects within an image are assigned a semantic interest that is indicative of their importance to the image as a whole. The objects are detected automatically, and sub-images that span each of the objects are excerpted from the image. An image embedding is determined for each of the sub-images as well as for the whole image by using an image encoder implemented as a trained multi-modal neural network. The degree of simil...