ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,619, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to BEIJING WODONG TIANJUN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).
"Object affordance detection method and apparatus" was invented by Dacheng Tao (Beijing) and Wei Zhai (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the field of computers, and provides an object affordance detection method and apparatus. The method includes acquiring a reference image and an image to be detected, the reference image comprising a person and a first object on which the person performs an action; extracting features of the reference image and features of the image to be detected; accordin...