ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,490, issued on June 24, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).
"Image processing method and apparatus" was invented by Zhen Huang (Dongguan, China) and Qiao Li (Dongguan, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method and apparatus belong to the technical field of communication. The method comprises: acquiring a target image including a shadow; and removing the shadow from the target image based on a target model, to acquire an image after shadow removal, wherein the target model is a model trained based on a target image sample including a shadow and a shadow image sample corresponding...