ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,823, issued on May 26, was assigned to TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LTD (Shenzhen, China).

"Image processing method and apparatus, device, and storage medium" was invented by Yunlong Feng (Shenzhen, China), Xu Chen (Shenzhen, China), Ying Tai (Shenzhen, China), Chengjie Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Jilin Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method and apparatus are provided. During image matting on an original image, a plurality of segmented images including different regions are first obtained through semantic segmentation. Further, according to the segmented images, lines of different widths ...