ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,544, issued on March 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Image-text fusion method and apparatus, and electronic device" was invented by Wenjie Zhang (Nanjing, China), Weicai Zhong (Xi'an, China) and Liang Hu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to the field of digital image processing technologies, and discloses an image-text fusion method and apparatus, and an electronic device, to minimize blockage of a saliency feature in an image by a text when the text is laid out in the image, and obtain a higher visual balance degree after the text is laid out in the first ...