US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Oct. 14 for "Visual question generation with answer-awareness and region-reference" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,062, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Visual question generation with answer-awareness and region-reference" was invented by Lingfei Wu (Elmsford, N.Y.), Lei Yu (Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.), Chen Wang (Chappaqua, N.Y.) and Dakuo Wang (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for visual question generation includes training an alignment module to analyze an image, an answer hint, and a visual hint with respect to the image. A k-nearest neighbors (KNN) graph is constructed by performing an aligned embedding for each region of the image. A node embedd...