ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,700, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SHENZHEN TCL NEW TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Image recognition" was invented by Yinbo Bai (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an image recognition method, a unit duration is set according to the actual number of object boxes. External voice information is obtained or a focus event is monitored within the unit duration. One or more target object boxes are selected according to at least one of the external voice information or the focus event. Deduplication processing is performed on target object images respectively contained in the target object boxes."

The patent ...