US Patent Issued to NEC on July 29 for "Multimodal semantic analysis and image retrieval" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,484, issued on July 29, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Multimodal semantic analysis and image retrieval" was invented by Vijay Kumar Baikampady Gopalkrishna (Santa Clara, Calif.), Samuel Schulter (Long Island City, N.Y.), Manmohan Chandraker (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Xiang Yu (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for identifying and retrieving semantically similar images from a database. Semantic analysis is performed on an input query utilizing a vision language model to identify semantic concepts associated with the input query. A preliminary set of images is retrieved from the ...