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Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2026

Filed:

Jan. 10, 2025
Applicant:

Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Fabio Luca Sulser, Zurich, CH;

Susan Qi Xu, San Francisco, CA (US);

Vikas Bahirwani, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Bhanu Prakash Reddy Guda, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Lin Li, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Khalid Salama, Zurich, CH;

Manuel Tragut, Zug, CH;

Ágoston Weisz, Pfäffikon Schwyz, CH;

Andrea Colaco, Los Altos, CA (US);

Assignee:

GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/9538 (2019.01); G06F 16/532 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/9538 (2019.01); G06F 16/532 (2019.01);
Abstract

Provided are computer-implemented systems and methods for responding to visual queries using both a visual search engine and a vision language model (VLM). In particular, aspects of the present disclosure can improve the performance of a VLM at generating a response to a visual queries by supplementing the visual query with one or more annotations generated by or using the visual search engine.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Sulser, Fabio. (2026). Enhancing vision language model understanding via visual search service-derived annotations (U.S. Patent No. 12769802). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12769802

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