ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,623, issued on March 25, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Training method and apparatus for image region segmentation model, and image region segmentation method and apparatus" was invented by Jun Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Kuan Tian (Shenzhen, China), Kezhou Yan (Shenzhen, China), Jianhua Yao (Shenzhen, China) and Xiao Han (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application disclose a method and apparatus for training an image region segmentation model, and an image region segmentation method and apparatus. The method includes acquiring a sample image set, and each image of t...