ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,002, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for image annotation, and storage medium" was invented by Xue Yang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method for image annotation, an apparatus for image annotation, and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining annotation contents of an image to be annotated; determining an association relationship among the annotation contents, in which the association relationship includes at least one of a series relationship and a parallel relationship; and performing distribution and annotat...