ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,635, issued on March 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Image distortion correction method and apparatus" was invented by Chen Su (Shenzhen, China), Huanwen Peng (Shenzhen, China), Shuiran Peng (Shanghai), Yihua Zeng (Shenzhen, China) and Shisheng Zheng (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image distortion correction method and an apparatus, where the method includes: performing optical distortion correction on a collected source image to obtain a first corrected image, where the first corrected image includes a background region and a portrait in which stretching deformation occurs, ...