ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,506, issued on April 15, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Visual aspect localization presentation" was invented by Licheng Yu (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Mohammadhadi Kiapour (San Francisco), Ajinkya Gorakhnath Kale (San Jose, Calif.) and Robinson Piramuthu (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments use a neural network to analyze images for aspects that characterize the images, to present locations of those aspects on the images, and, additionally, to permit a user to interact with those locations on the images. For example, a user may interact with a visual cue over one of those locations to modify, r...