ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,690, issued on April 15, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Image processing method and apparatus, computing device, and storage medium" was invented by Benchao Li (Shenzhen, China), Feng Li (Shenzhen, China), Chenghao Liu (Shenzhen, China), Yi Liu (Shenzhen, China) and Juanhui Tu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method includes: determining a brightness value of an image; and enhancing a brightness of the image when the brightness value of the image is less than an image brightness threshold. Enhancing the brightness of the image includes: determining each pixel of the i...