ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,794, issued on June 17, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Emotion recognition in multimedia videos using multi-modal fusion-based deep neural network" was invented by Pankaj Wasnik (Bangalore, India), Naoyuki Onoe (Bangalore, India) and Vishal Chudasama (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of landmark detection using emotion recognition in multimedia videos using multi-modal fusion based deep neural network is provided. The system includes circuitry and a memory configured to store a multimodal fusion network which includes one or more feature extractors, a network of transformer encoders, a f...