US Patent Issued to NEC on June 30 for "Conditional similarity-based image identification and matching with reduced labels" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,695, issued on June 30, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Conditional similarity-based image identification and matching with reduced labels" was invented by Vijay Kumar Baikampady Gopalkrishna (Santa Clara, Calif.), Samuel Schulter (Long Island City, N.Y.), Xiang Yu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Manmohan Chandraker (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for matching one or more images using conditional similarity pseudo-labels, including analyzing an unlabeled dataset of images, accessing a foundational vision-language model trained on a plurality of image-text pairs, and defining a set ...