ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,243, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Image processing method and apparatus" was invented by Songjiang Li (Beijing), Takashi Isobe (Shenzhen, China), Xu Jia (Shenzhen, China) and Qi Tian (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method and apparatus in the field of artificial intelligence are disclosed. The method comprises: decomposing a first image to obtain a first structure sub-image and a first detail sub-image, where the first image is any frame of image in video data other than a first frame; fusing first hidden state information and the first struc...