ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,820, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Image segmentation method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium" was invented by Shuang Yu (Shenzhen, China), Wei Ji (Shenzhen, China), Kai Ma (Shenzhen, China) and Yefeng Zheng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image segmentation method includes: encoding an original image containing a target object based on a prior knowledge vector, to obtain a target feature map, the prior knowledge vector comprising a plurality of prior knowledge weights each representing accuracy of a corresponding rater labeling a region of an...