ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,271, issued on March 3, was assigned to BEIJING SOGOU TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Picture recognition method and apparatus, electronic device, and medium" was invented by Congtao Wang (Beijing), Jiajun Yang (Beijing), Yuanming Wei (Beijing), Wei Chen (Beijing), Tao Wei (Beijing), Jun Wu (Beijing), Li Gong (Beijing) and Weiji Zhu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a picture recognition method performed by a computing device. The method includes: obtaining a recognized current string and a hash value of the current string during text recognition for an acquired image through an opti...