ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,507, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Image analysis method, image analysis apparatus, and image analysis system" was invented by Xiaoning Wang (Shenzhen, China), Jianhua Yao (Shenzhen, China), Hong Shang (Shenzhen, China) and Han Zheng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image analysis method includes: obtaining an image; performing image classification on the image by using an image classification network, to obtain an image classification result of an image category of the image, the image category including a first category and a second category different from the fir...