ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,309, issued on July 29, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Information processing apparatus with brightness reduction processing and control method for brightness reduction processing" was invented by Masashi Nishio (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuji Wada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes: a memory which temporarily stores image data of an image captured by an imaging unit; a processor which processes the image data stored in the memory; an internal display; and a connection unit which connects to an external display. The processor performs: face detection pro...