ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,210, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Scene contour recognition in video based on depth information" was invented by Shenghao Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Yonggen Ling (Shenzhen, China), Wanchao Chi (Shenzhen, China), Yu Zheng (Shenzhen, China) and Xinyang Jiang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scene contour recognition method is provided. In the method, a plurality of scene images of an environment is obtained. Three-dimensional information of a target plane in the plurality of scene images is determined based on depth information for each of the plurality of scene image...