US Patent Issued to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 9 for "Automated moodboard augmentation via cross-modal generative association making" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,401, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Automated moodboard augmentation via cross-modal generative association making" was invented by Matthew Kyung-Soo Hong (Mountain View, Calif.), Shabnam Hakimi (San Francisco) and Yin-Ying Chen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automated moodboard augmentation via cross-modal generative association making is described. The method includes specifying, by a user, a region to augment in their digital workspace, including at least one selected image. The method also includes infe...