# US 10,372,978 B1 · Artificial intelligence image and text processing > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,372,978 B1 - Document ID: US10372978B1 - Status: Granted - Kind: B1 - Application number: 15/816,769 - Filed: 2017-11-17 - Granted: 2019-08-06 - Earliest claimed: 2016-11-17 - Assignees: Uipco, LLC - Applicants: Uipco, LLC - Inventors: Arthur Quentin Smith; John C. Hopkins, III - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10372978B1 ## CPC - G06N 20/00: Machine learning - G06F 18/21: Design or setup of recognition systems or techniques; Extraction of features in feature space; Blind source separation - G06N 3/0464: Convolutional networks [CNN, ConvNet] - G06N 3/09: Supervised learning - G06V 20/30: in albums, collections or shared content, e.g. social network photos or video - G06V 20/41: {Higher-level, semantic clustering, classification or understanding of video scenes, e.g. detection, labelling or Markovian modelling of sport events or news items (segmenting video sequences G06V20/49)} - G06V 40/103: {Static body considered as a whole, e.g. static pedestrian or occupant recognition} - G06V 40/172: {Classification, e.g. identification} - G06V 2201/07: Target detection - G06V 2201/09: Recognition of logos - G06N: COMPUTING ARRANGEMENTS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G06V: IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING ## Abstract The present invention provides a method using a trained and activated artificial intelligence entity for detecting in photo images, moving or still, the identity of target people who are present or former members of the U.S. armed services, or are related thereto, from sources available through the Internet or other wide area computer network. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method for identifying people in the military from language, text, and audio in photo images comprising: implementing an artificial intelligent (AI) entity on a server having a processor, a memory and computer readable instructions in the memory; training the AI entity to locate language, text and audio in photo images on the Internet; training the AI entity to identify military indicia in the photo images; training the AI entity to locate people in the images bearing military indicia; training the AI entity to determine whether the people located are members of the military; training the AI entity to determine the name of the people identified as being members of the military; training the AI entity to find relatives of the people identified as being members of the military; testing the AI entity by presenting the AI entity with data representing a plurality of photo images containing a predetermined number of people in the military; activating the AI entity for commercial use after successful testing; connecting the AI entity to the Internet; initiating a scan of the Internet and/or other information sources by the AI entity to locate a plurality of photo images; analyzing the plurality of language, text and audio in photo images using the AI entity to locate people in the military; locating the names of the people determined to be in the military; locating the names of people who are related to the people determined to be in the military; and saving the names of the people determined to be in the military and their relatives in a first database. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1 wherein the step of determining whether people are in the military includes the step of identifying a military uniform with the activated AI entity. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The method of claim 2 further comprising the step of determining the rank of the people wearing the military uniform with the activated AI entity. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The method of claim 3 wherein the step of determining the rank of the person wearing the military uniform comprises using the activated AI entity to identify indicia of rank from the photo image of the person wearing the military uniform and comparing the identified indicia to the known indicia of rank used by the U.S. Army, U.S. Marines, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, U.S. National Guard and U.S. Coast Guard. ### Claim 5 (depends on 2) The method of claim 2 wherein the step of determining the branch of the military service comprises using the activated AI entity to compare images of people wearing uniforms with images of known uniforms of the U.S. Army, U.S. Marines, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, U.S. National Guard and U.S. Coast Guard. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1 wherein the step of initiating a scan of the Internet comprises logging on to facebook.com, scanning through photo images posted with the activated AI entity and locating a person wearing a military uniform and determining people who are designated as friends of the person wearing the military uniform. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1 wherein the step of initiating a scan of the Internet comprises logging on to linkedin.com, scanning through photo images posted with the activated AI entity and locating a person wearing a military uniform and determining people who are linked to the person wearing the military uniform. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1 further comprising a second database of customers of a company and comparing the names of the people wearing military uniforms in the first database with the names of customers in the second database and removing the matching names from the first database. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1 further comprising using the activated AI entity to compare the names in the first database with names in a social security death benefits website and upon finding matches removing the matching names from the first database.