US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on July 8 for "Systems, methods, and apparatus for providing image shortcuts for an assistant application" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,347, issued on July 8, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and apparatus for providing image shortcuts for an assistant application" was invented by Marcin Nowak-Przygodzki (Bach, Switzerland) and Gokhan Bakir (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generating and/or utilizing image shortcuts that cause one or more corresponding computer actions to be performed in response to determining that one or more features are present in image(s) from a camera of a computing device of a user (e.g., present in a real-time image feed from the camera). An image shortcut can be generated in response to user interfa...