ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,875, issued on April 21, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Picture generation method and apparatus, device, and medium" was invented by Wensheng Cao (Shenzhen, China), Wei Cao (Shenzhen, China), Tangxi Chen (Shenzhen, China), Xiaojie Wang (Shenzhen, China), Lijun Yuan (Shenzhen, China), Chong Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Meng Zhai (Shenzhen, China) and Xingyuan Zhu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a picture generation method performed by a computer device. The method includes: rendering a three-dimensional virtual scene to obtain a scene background rendering map; rendering a fir...