ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,627, issued on June 17, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Artificial intelligence-based image generation method, device and apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Xiaohang Ren (Shenzhen, China), Yang Ding (Shenzhen, China), Xiao Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Youcheng Ben (Shenzhen, China), Yuxuan Yan (Shenzhen, China), Pei Cheng (Shenzhen, China) and Gang Yu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of this application discloses an artificial intelligence-based image generation method performed by a computer device. The method includes: acquiring a source image including a target ob...