US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on Oct. 21 for "Image retrieval method and apparatus, storage medium, and device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,868, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Image retrieval method and apparatus, storage medium, and device" was invented by Shuai Mou (Guangdong, China), Wan Peng Xiao (Guangdong, China) and Qi Ju (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image retrieval method is provided. The image retrieval method includes: performing feature extraction on an image according to a deep learning-based feature extraction manner to obtain a first feature; determining, based on the first feature, at least one candidate image; performing feature extraction on the image and each of the at least one ...