ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,751, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Picture update method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium" was invented by Jiaping Wu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to a picture update method and apparatus, a computer device, and a storage medium. The method includes: receiving sensor data sent by a terminal, the sensor data being collected by a physical sensor of the terminal; writing the sensor data into a virtual sensor, the virtual sensor corresponding to a structure of the physical sensor and is configured to support a sensor service...