ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,222, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Image processing method and apparatus, computer device, program, and storage medium" was invented by Xinyi Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Junwei Zhu (Shenzhen, China), Wenqing Chu (Shenzhen, China), Ying Tai (Shenzhen, China), Chengjie Wang (Shenzhen, China), Jilin Li (Shenzhen, China) and Feiyue Huang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device acquires an original image sequence. The device performs image preprocessing on the original image sequence to obtain a feature map sequence and a confidence map sequence that are correspo...