ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,879, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Image rendering method and related apparatus, terminal and storage medium" was invented by Huabing Xu (Shenzhen, China), Shun Cao (Shenzhen, China), Nan Wei (Shenzhen, China), Xiaochun Cui (Shenzhen, China), Congbing Li (Shenzhen, China), Rongxin Zhou (Shenzhen, China) and Wenyan Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image rendering method and a related apparatus, terminal and storage medium that: obtains a low-resolution first shadow map and a high-resolution second shadow map of a target virtual object, determines a first texel r...