ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,317, issued on May 27, was assigned to BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Video generation" was invented by Haifeng Wang (Beijing), Hao Tian (Beijing), Xinyan Xiao (Beijing), Xing Li (Beijing) and Tian Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video generation method is provided. The video generation method includes: obtaining global semantic information and local semantic information of a text, where the local semantic information corresponds to a text fragment in the text; searching, based on the global semantic information, a database to obtain at least one first data corresponding to the global semant...