ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,916, issued on June 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Model generation method and model generation system" was invented by Quan Kong (Toshima-ku, Japan), Hsuan-Kung Yang (Minato-ku, Japan), Norimasa Kobori (Nakano-ku, Japan) and Lijin Yang (Koto-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A model generation method for generating a video extraction model for extracting a matching interval in a video that matches contents of an input sentence is provided. In the model generation method, a base matching interval and a sub matching interval in a training video are extracted by inputting a base sentence and a sub s...