ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,076, issued on March 11, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Three-dimensional edge detection based on mutual object and edge detection and three-dimensional edge refinement detection" was invented by Luyan Liu (Shenzhen, China), Kai Ma (Shenzhen, China) and Yefeng Zheng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for three-dimensional edge detection includes obtaining, for each of plural two-dimensional slices of a three-dimensional image, a two-dimensional object detection result and a two-dimensional edge detection result, stacking the two-dimensional object detection results in...