ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,412, issued on May 27, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Information processing apparatus and control method" was invented by Masashi Nishio (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuji Wada (Kanagawa, Japan), Mamoru Okada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Eri Shimizu (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus performs face detection processing to detect a face area with a face captured therein from an image captured by an imaging unit, brightness reduction processing in which, when the face area is no longer detected from a state where the face area is detected by the face detection processing while ...