US Patent Issued to ADOBE on Sept. 1 for "Text-based image retrieval" (American, South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,820, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Text-based image retrieval" was invented by Hyunjae Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Seunghyun Yoon (San Jose, Calif.), Trung Huu Bui (San Jose, Calif.), Handong Zhao (Cupertino, Calif.), Quan Tran (San Jose, Calif.) and Franck Dernoncourt (Spokane, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and system for media processing include obtaining a text prompt describing content, generating, using a multi-modal encoder, a text embedding based on the text prompt, and obtaining an image depicting the content based on the t...