ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,588, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Image processing method and device, and storage medium" was invented by Mengfei Liu (Beijing), Yang Sun (Beijing) and Miao Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method, the method includes: obtaining a compressed image of a current image, where resolution of the current image is greater than that of the compressed image; cropping out at least one composition preview image based on the compressed image; and in response to selecting a target composition image from said at least one composition preview image displayed,...