ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,679, issued on June 17, was assigned to SPREADTRUM COMMUNICATIONS (SHANGHAI) Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Image fusion method and apparatus, storage medium, and terminal" was invented by Ruirong You (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for fusing images and apparatus, a storage medium, and a terminal are provided. The method for fusing images includes: obtaining a long-focal image to be fused and a wide-angle image to be fused; detecting feature points of the long-focal image and wide-angle image with a same scale, and matching the feature points to obtain matching feature point pairs; determining a fusion area based on positio...