ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,658, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Foreground data generation method and method for applying same, related apparatus, and system" was invented by Jingmin Luo (Shenzhen, China) and Xiaolong Zhu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a foreground data generation method performed at a computer device. The method includes: obtaining a target image, the target image containing a target object and a background; removing the background from the target image to obtain initial foreground data of the target object in the target image; expanding the initial...