ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,565, issued on June 30, was assigned to Honor Device Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Image processing method and electronic device" was invented by Tao Shao (Shenzhen, China), Yu Wang (Shenzhen, China), Bin Xiao (Shenzhen, China), Congchao Zhu (Shenzhen, China) and Hantao Cui (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to the field of image processing, and provides an image processing method and an electronic device. The electronic device captures a first image-that is an image captured by a camera lens. The first image includes a first shot object and a second shot object. The electronic device determines a...