ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,985, issued on May 13, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Mapping images to search queries" was invented by Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland), Abhanshu Sharma (Zurich, Switzerland) and David Petrou (Brooklyn, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving a query image, receiving one or more entities that are associated with the query image, identifying, for one or more of the entities, one or more candidate search queries that are pre-associated with the one or more entities, generating a respective relevance score for each of the candidate search queries, selecting, as a r...