US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 11 for "Sound search using caption embeddings" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,280, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sound search using caption embeddings" was invented by Rehana Mahfuz (San Diego), Yinyi Guo (San Diego) and Erik Visser (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes one or more processors configured to generate one or more query caption embeddings based on a query. The processor(s) are further configured to select one or more caption embeddings from among a set of embeddings associated with a set of media files of a file repository. Each caption embedding represents a corresponding sound caption, and each sound caption includes a natural-language text ...