ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,579, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Face image processing method and apparatus, computer-readable medium, and device" was invented by Zheming Hong (Shenzhen, China), Jun Wang (Shenzhen, China), Shaoming Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Runzeng Guo (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A face image processing method includes: obtaining a plurality of lattice depth images acquired by performing a depth image acquisition on a target face from different acquisition angles; performing a fusion processing on the plurality of lattice depth images to obtain a dense lattice depth image; an...