Using OpenAI’s CLIP to Search for Design Patents

By Medium - 2021-03-01

Description

This article shows how to use natural language to search and find over sixty thousand industrial designs that have entered the public domain since 2002.

Summary

  • Using natural language to search and find over sixty thousand industrial designs that have entered the public domain since 2002 Everybody knows about using patents as a way to protect new inventions.
  • Design Patents As I mentioned above, design patents protect the appearance, not the functional aspects of inventions.
  • But the image embeddings will capture some key aspects of the design, like the “curved water faucet” example above.
  • Check out the appendix below to see some sample search results.

 

Topics

  1. NLP (0.28)
  2. UX (0.24)
  3. Coding (0.03)

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