ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,253, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Using grounded rationales to improve visual reasoning" was invented by Apratim Bhattacharyya (San Diego), Roland Memisevic (Toronto), Sunny Praful Kumar Panchal (Toronto), Reza Pourreza (San Diego), Mingu Lee (San Diego) and Pulkit Madan (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor-implemented method for generating grounded rationales for visual reasoning tasks includes receiving, by a first artificial neural network (ANN), an interleaved sequence of images and textual information. The first ANN extracts grid features of the images of the interleaved sequence ...