ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,293, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Compay Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Image detection method and apparatus" was invented by Jinxi Xiang (Guangdong, China), Sen Yang (Guangdong, China), Jun Zhang (Guangdong, China), Dongxian Jiang (Guangdong, China), Yingyong Hou (Guangdong, China) and Xiao Han (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image detection method and apparatus are disclosed. The method includes: performing feature extraction processing on the image to obtain a feature representation subset of the image; generating attention weights corresponding to the at least two sub-image featur...