US Patent Issued to BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 7 for "Picture annotation method, apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,566, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Picture annotation method, apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium" was invented by Yang Ding (Beijing) and Ya Gao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A picture annotation method includes starting an annotation tool to recognize a hierarchical relationship between candidate layers in the annotation tool; acquiring an annotation event of a picture to be annotated; distributing the annotation event to at least one target master candidate layer based on the hierarchical relationship; distributing, for an arbitrary target maste...