ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,951, issued on April 29, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Automatic generation of stylized icons" was invented by Jianlong Fu (Beijing), Jinpeng Wang (Redmond, Wash.) and Chin-Yew Lin (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for generating a stylized icon automatically. After a query text inputted by a user is obtained, a trained generator is used to generate a structured icon that can characterize a structure of an object, and then the structured icon is stylized, such as performing color padding or adding other styles, so ...