US Patent Issued to Salesforce on June 23 for "Systems and methods for visual question answering using image relevant textual prompts" (Singaporean, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,402, issued on June 23, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for visual question answering using image relevant textual prompts" was invented by Jiaxian Guo (Sydney), Junnan Li (Singapore) and Chu Hong Hoi (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for providing zero-shot visual question answering. A first image and a first question relating to a visual content of the first image are received. One or more image captions relevant to the first question are determined using a visual-language neural model by determining portions of the first image re...