ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,556, issued on July 22, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Artificial intelligence-based image processing method and apparatus, device, and medium" was invented by Jun Liao (Shenzhen, China) and Jianhua Yao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer device obtains a confocal microscopy image. The device determines a pinhole diameter of a first detector pinhole of a confocal microscope that is used to acquire the image. The pinhole diameter has an influence on a parameter of the image. The device obtains a target image processing model corresponding to the pinhole diameter of the first dete...