ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,773, issued on March 25, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Information processing apparatus and control method" was invented by Kazuhiro Kosugi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masashi Nishio (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a memory which temporarily stores a program of an OS; a first processor which executes the program to implement functions of the OS; a second processor which detects a face area with a face captured therein from an image captured by an imaging unit. When the face area is no longer detected, the first processor performs first processing to ...