US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 16 for "Image paragraph generator" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,940, issued on June 16, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Image paragraph generator" was invented by Yujia Xie (Redmond, Wash.), Lu Yuan (Redmond, Wash.) and Nguyen Hung Bach (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example solutions for image paragraph captioning use a first vision language model to generate visual information (comprising text) for an image. The visual information may include tags, an initial image caption, and information on objects within the image (e.g., further tags and captions, and object attributes and locations within the image). In some examples, the visual informat...