Microsoft Pockets You-Look-Marvelous Patent

from the pay-up dept

theodp writes "Using a series of crudely-drawn, sparsely-worded flowcharts consisting of three boxes each (e.g., Input Image. Generate Score. Output Score), Microsoft has managed to overcome five USPTO rejections, winning a patent Tuesday for the Computerized Aesthetic Judgment of Images."
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  1. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 9 Nov 2004 @ 2:03pm

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    Well, it does validate P.T. Barnum's primary thesis. Couldn't ask for a better illustration.

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  2. identicon
    Dragonman, 10 Nov 2004 @ 7:14am

    No Subject Given

    It would be interesting to see if the 'examiner' (and I use the term loosely) that granted the patent has suddenly acquired a large sum of money or a Swiss bank account.

    link to this | view in thread ]


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