US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Feb. 24 for "Visual search determination for text-to-image replacement" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,363, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Visual search determination for text-to-image replacement" was invented by Harshit Kharbanda (Pleasanton, Calif.), Christopher James Kelley (Orinda, Calif.) and Pendar Yousefi (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for textual replacement can include the determination of a visual intent, which can trigger an interface for selecting an image to replace visual descriptors. The visually descriptive terms can be identified, and an indicator can be provided to indicate the text replacement option may be initiated. An image can then ...