ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,132, issued on April 7, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China) and The Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University (Hebei Cancer Hospital) (Shijiazhuang, China).

"Image processing method and apparatus" was invented by Jun Liao (Shenzhen, China), Jianhua Yao (Shenzhen, China), Yueping Liu (Shenzhen, China) and Lingling Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: acquiring a sample image, the sample image comprising an image obtained by image-capturing a sample within a preset optical waveband; processing a first imag...