ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,295, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to BEIJING ZITIAO NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Image processing method for a virtual subject, electronic device, and storage medium" was invented by Liyou Xu (Beijing) and Siyuan Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an image processing method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes dividing a target virtual subject in a to-be-processed video frame into multiple skeleton chains, where each of the multiple skeleton chains includes at least one skeleton point; determining collision information between at least one skeleton point i...