ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,381, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Tsinghua University Architectural Design and Research Institute Co. Ltd (Beijing).

"Multi-modality based building image retrieval method, device and apparatus" was invented by Rongbo Zhang (Beijing), Zhaoqun Cui (Beijing) and Peng Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a multi-modality based building image retrieval method, device and apparatus. The method includes the steps of: acquiring a building example image set, a positive prompt word set, and a negative prompt word set inputted by a user; extracting features from the building example image set, th...