US Patent Issued to NEC on Oct. 6 for "Open-vocabulary object detection with vision and language supervision" (California, New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,558, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Open-vocabulary object detection with vision and language supervision" was invented by Samuel Schulter (Long Island City, N.Y.), Vijay Kumar Baikampady Gopalkrishna (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yumin Suh (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Shiyu Zhao (Piscataway, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for training a neural network to predict object categories without manual annotation is provided. The method includes feeding training datasets including at least images and data annotations to an object detection neural network, converting, by a text prompter, the dat...