ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,225, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Query refinement using optical character recognition" was invented by Keun Soo Yim (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosed technology include formulating and processing image-based queries by generating a text fragment from an input image, determining a predicted system task based at least in part on the text fragment, obtaining search results for a query executed based at least in part on the text fragment, and in response to determining that the predicted system task is not fulfilled by the search results, generating a que...