ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,152, issued on March 17, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Contextual search on multimedia content" was invented by Gokhan Hasan Bakir (Zurich), Karoly Csalogany (Zurich) and Behshad Behzadi (Zurich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for contextual search on multimedia content are provided. An example method includes extracting entities associated with multimedia content, wherein the entities include values characterizing one or more objects represented in the multimedia content, generating one or more query rewrite candidates based on the extracted entities and one or more terms in a query related to the m...