ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,284, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Sichuan Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Yibin, Sichuan, China (Yibin, China).

"Visual dialogue method and system" was invented by Lei Zhao (Yibin, China), Junlin Li (Yibin, China), Jie Shao (Yibin, China), Lianli Gao (Yibin, China) and Jingkuan Song (Yibin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A visual dialogue method and system is provided. The method includes obtaining original input data, where the original input data includes current image data and a new question, and the new question is related to the current image data; preprocessing text data and image data in the original input da...