ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,313, issued on May 27, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Image query analysis" was invented by Gokhan H. Bakir (Zurich, Switzerland), Marcin Bortnik (Zurich, Switzerland), Malte Nuhn (Zurich, Switzerland) and Kavin Karthik Ilangovan (Zurich, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for analyzing images for generating query responses. One of the methods includes determining, using a textual query, an image category for images responsive to the textual query, and an output type that identifies a type of requested content...