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Microsoft patents AI tool that picks picture frames from your photo's subject

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Patent drawing from the official filing.

Microsoft has patented a system that uses artificial intelligence to automatically select digital picture frames for your photos. The software reads a text description of the frame you want, finds matching pre-generated frames in a database, and places them around your image.

Why it mattersThis could make editing photos easier by suggesting frames that match the content of your picture, saving users from manually searching for the right border style.

In the filing’s own words

A data processing system implements receiving an image and a natural language prompt input by a user requesting that an application generate an digital picture frame for the image; analyzing the prompt using a key-phrase extraction unit to extract one or more key phrases from the prompt that describe a topic of the frame to be generated for the image; providing the one or more key phrases as an input to a retrieval engine; analyzing the one or more key phrases with the retrieval engine to identify a set of candidate frame images from among a plurality of frame images in a labeled frame images datastore; analyzing the set of candidate frame images using an image placement unit to obtain a set of framed images based on the image and the candidate frame images; and presenting the set of framed images on a user interface of the application.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A data processing system comprising: a processor; and a memory storing executable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor alone or in combination with other processors to perform operations of: constructing a labeled frame images datastore by: obtaining a set of textual prompts from a pre-generated prompt datastore; providing each prompt of the set of textual prompts to a text-to-image generative language model to cause the text-to-image generative language model to generate a frame image of a plurality of frame images; generating a label for each frame image of the plurality of frame images using an image labeling unit, the label associating the frame image with one or more topics; and storing each frame image and the label associated with the frame image in the labeled frame images datastore; receiving an electronic copy of an image from an application; receiving a natural language prompt that was input by a user of the application requesting that the application generate a digital picture frame for the image, the natural language prompt including a description of the digital picture frame to be created for the image; analyzing the natural language prompt using a key-phrase extraction unit to extract one or more key phrases from the natural language prompt that describe a topic of the digital picture frame to be generated for the image; providing the one or more key phrases as an input to a retrieval engine; analyzing the one or more key phrases with the retrieval engine to identify a set of candidate frame images from among a plurality of frame images in the labeled frame images datastore; analyzing the set of candidate frame images using an image placement unit to obtain a set of framed images based on the image and the set of candidate frame images; and presenting the set of framed images on a user interface of the application.

Facts

Company
Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)
Official title
Content-aware artificial intelligence generated frames for digital images
Patent number
US12748805B2
Application number
18395909
Filed
Dec 26, 2023
Granted
Sep 29, 2026
Inventors
2
Claims
19

Classified under

G06F 40/289 Physics & computingG06V 10/25 Physics & computingG06V 10/761 Physics & computingG06V 20/70 Physics & computingG06V 2201/07 Physics & computing

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