ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,184, issued on April 7, was assigned to Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Image processing method and apparatus, device and readable storage medium" was invented by Xu Wang (Beijing) and Kai Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method and apparatus, a device and a readable storage medium are provided in embodiments of the present disclosure. After acquiring a source image, an electronic device generates a grayscale image based on the source image, and performs Gaussian blur on the grayscale image to obtain a Gaussian blur image. Then, the electronic device generates a first sketch image...