US Patent Issued to VERITONE on June 3 for "Text based image search" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,198, issued on June 3, was assigned to VERITONE INC. (Denver).

"Text based image search" was invented by Shaogang Gong (Pinner, Great Britain), Qi Dong (London) and Xiatian Zhu (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and system for building a machine learning model for finding visual targets from text queries, the method comprising the steps of receiving a set of training data comprising text attribute labelled images, wherein each image has more than one text attribute label. Receiving a first vector space comprising a mapping of words, the mapping defining relationships between words. Generating a visual feat...