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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2023
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Wei-Cheng Kuo, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Fred Bertsch, Belmont, CA (US);
Wei Li, Fremont, CA (US);
Anthony J. Piergiovanni, Denver, CO (US);
Mohammad Taghi Saffar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Anelia Angelova, Palo Alto, CA (US);
GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Generally, the disclosure is directed to generalized objected location, where the located object is in accordance to a natural language (NL) query. More specifically, the embodiments include a unified generalized visual localization architecture. The architecture achieves enhanced performance on the following three tasks: referring expression comprehension, object localization, and object detection. The embodiments employ machine-learned NL models and/or image models. The architecture is enabled to understand and answer natural localization questions towards an image, to output multiple boxes, provide no output if the object is not present (e.g., a null result), as well as, solve general detection tasks.