ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,403, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Image processing method and related apparatus" was invented by Xinghua Jiang (Shenzhen, China), Hao Liu (Shenzhen, China), Xin Li (Shenzhen, China) and Deqiang Jiang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in this application is an image processing method and a related apparatus. The method includes performing vectorization on a to-be-processed image, to obtain an image representation vector; performing feature mapping on the image representation vector to obtain an image feature, including: performing, at a same network layer of...