ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,729, issued on June 23, was assigned to Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Image processing method and apparatus, and electronic device and storage medium" was invented by Wentao Liu (Beijing) and Hang Zhao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method, apparatus, electronic device and storage medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring a depth image corresponding to a target image; determining a first undirected graph according to the target image and the depth image, the first undirected graph including a first node corresponding to a background edge and a second node corresponding t...