ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,523, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Photographing method and electronic device" was invented by Hantao Cui (Shenzhen, China), Wei Ji (Shenzhen, China), Guangyuan Li (Shenzhen, China) and Gang Chen (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with an embodiment, a method of operating an electronic device comprising a screen, a first camera, and a second camera, includes: detecting that a zoom ratio gradually changes within a first ratio range, wherein the zoom ratio in the first ratio range is less than an optical zoom ratio of the second camera, and a ratio differe...