US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 21 for "Prior-driven supervision for weakly-supervised temporal action localization" (Washington, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,936, issued on April 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Prior-driven supervision for weakly-supervised temporal action localization" was invented by Gaurav Mittal (Redmond, Wash.), Ye Yu (Redmond, Wash.), Matthew Brigham Hall (Kenmore, Wash.), Sandra Sajeev (Seattle), Mei Chen (Bellevue, Wash.) and Mamshad Nayeem Rizve (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A classifier model is trained for temporal action localization of video clips. A training video clip that includes actions of interest for identification is ingested into the classifier model. Action characteristics within frames of t...