US Patent Issued to Microsift Technology Licensing on April 7 for "Natural language processing based dominant item detection in videos" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,884, issued on April 7, was assigned to Microsift Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Natural language processing based dominant item detection in videos" was invented by Tom Hirshberg (Haifa, Israel), Yonit Hoffman (Herzeliva, Israel), Zvi Figov (Modiin, Israel) and Maayan Yedidia (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and method are provided for extracting and processing terms referenced in multimedia content with the use of different term extraction models to determine the relevance of categories to the referenced terms and to rank the categories by relative dominance for the multimedia content. The most...