ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,539, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).
"Image processing method and apparatus" was invented by Xinglun Liang (Beijing), Can Wang (Beijing) and Ze Wang (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an image processing method and apparatus. The method comprises: obtaining an RGB image and a stencil buffer, wherein the RGB image comprises image information taken by a physical camera and image information rendered by a virtual object rendering module, and the stencil buffer is used for storing stencil values corresponding to pixels on the RGB image; obtai...