ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,843, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Content recognition method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium" was invented by Qidong Xu (Shenzhen, China) and Xiaoshuai Chen (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for content recognition includes acquiring, from a content for recognition, a text piece and a media piece associated with the text piece, performing a first feature extraction on the text piece to obtain text features, performing a second feature extraction on the media piece associated with the text piece to obtain media features, and determ...