ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,567, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (China).

"Image authenticity detection method and apparatus" was invented by Zhou Han (Guangdong, China), Zhuang Zhang (Guangdong, China) and Zhiqiang Dong (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to an image authenticity detection method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining an image; removing low-frequency information from the image to obtain first image information of the image; denoising the first image information to obtain second image information; determining, based on a difference between the first image in...