Microsoft patents AI tool that picks picture frames from your photo's subject
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.
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 & computingMore from Microsoft in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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