US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on May 26 for "Privacy controls for sharing embeddings for searching and indexing media content" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,365, issued on May 26, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Privacy controls for sharing embeddings for searching and indexing media content" was invented by Sandro Feuz (Zurich, Switzerland) and Thomas Deselaers (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes techniques and systems that enable privacy controls for sharing embeddings for searching and indexing media content. A set of images of a user's face are obtained and a machine-learned model is applied to the set of images to generate a user-specific dataset of face embeddings for the user. Media content stored in a media storage is in...