ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,367, issued on May 26, was assigned to X Development LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Fast one-shot open vocabulary image-conditioned detection and search method for utility assets" was invented by Xin-Jing Wang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Anthony Ha (Milpitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes a system, method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for image search-based object detection of utility assets in image databases. The method includes receiving an input image of a utility asset and a query bounding box representing an image-based object query. Bounding boxes of objects represented in the inp...