ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,906, issued on July 7, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for recognizing rod-shaped object in image, computer device, and storage medium" was invented by Haichuan Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for recognizing a rod-shaped object in an image including determining, based on initial rod-shaped object recognition results obtained by performing rod-shaped object detection on a plurality of frames of consecutive images, at least two frames of consecutive images in which rod-shaped objects exist in the plurality of frames of consecutive images, d...