US Patent Issued to Salesforce on July 29 for "Systems and methods for visual question answering" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,099, issued on July 29, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for visual question answering" was invented by Anthony Meng Huat Tiong (Singapore), Junnan Li (Singapore) and Chu Hong Hoi (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide a zero-shot visual question answering (VQA) framework, which conjoins foundation network models with zero additional training. A first image and a question relating to the first image are received. The first image is divided into a plurality of image patches. A plurality of relevant image patches that are relevant to the question are determine...