ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,794, issued on March 17, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Image processing method and apparatus, electronic device, computer-readable storage medium, and computer program product" was invented by Luyan Liu (Shenzhen, China), Kai Ma (Shenzhen, China) and Yefeng Zheng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method can reduce costs related to manual labeling, improve training efficiency, and increase a quantity of training samples, thereby improving the accuracy of an image classification model. First images and second images are processed using an image classificati...