ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,375, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Temporal action localization with mutual task guidance" was invented by Bo Wu (Cambridge, Mass.), Chuang Gan (Cambridge, Mass.), Pin-Yu Chen (White Plains, N.Y.), Yang Zhang (Cambridge, Mass.) and Xin Zhang (Chappaqua, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer vision temporal action localization (TAL) computing tool and operations are provided. The TAL computing tool receives a coarse temporal bounding box, having a first start point and a first end point, for an action in the input video data, and a first set of logits, where each log...