..., patents are crucial in engineering, especially for engineering design and acquiring an exclusive business advantage. Therefore, efficient patent exploration is essential in patent application and design inspiration. Patent image complements text-based descriptions with visual information. The visual...

... shown crowdsourced design idea data from online platforms, such as Amazon Mechanical Turk, can be mined and represented with machine learning techniques to be used as design inspiration stimuli [ 8 , 52 ]. Fig. 8 The patent images on the first pages of the patents reported in Table 3 (retrieved...