US Patent Issued to Open Text on Feb. 4 for "Using a probabilistic model for detecting an object in visual data" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,479, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Open Text Corp. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Using a probabilistic model for detecting an object in visual data" was invented by George Saklatvala (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A probabilistic model is provided based on an output of a matching procedure that matches a particular object to representations of objects, where the probabilistic model relates a probability of an object being present to a number of matching features. The probabilistic model is used for detecting whether a particular object is present in received visual data."

The patent was filed on May 10, 2022, und...