US Patent Issued to Snap on Sept. 1 for "Named entity recognition visual context and caption data" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,970, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Named entity recognition visual context and caption data" was invented by Di Lu (Troy, N.Y.), Leonardo Ribas Machado Das Neves (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Vitor Rocha De Carvalho (San Diego) and Ning Zhang (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A caption of a multimodal message (e.g., social media post) can be identified as a named entity using an entity recognition system. The entity recognition system can use a visual attention based mechanism to generate a visual context representation from an image and caption. The system can use the visual context repr...