US Patent Issued to Adobe on July 14 for "Weakly-supervised referring expression segmentation" (Indian, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,623, issued on July 14, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Weakly-supervised referring expression segmentation" was invented by Sayan Nag (Toronto), Koustava Goswami (Bangalore, India) and Srikrishna Karanam (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that modifies parameters of a fused feature extractor. In particular, the disclosed systems generate inferred masks from digital images and digital text prompts using a fused feature extractor. Furthermore, the disclosed systems identify a subset of the inferred masks that sa...