ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,685, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Maxell Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Recording and reproducing apparatus and method thereof" was invented by Mari Yoshida (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a recording and reproducing apparatus and a recording and reproducing method for the recording and reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing image information on a scene obtained through photographing, relative to a predetermined first recording medium and being capable of setting one or more chapters to each scene, a face recognizing process is executed for a photographed image based on the image information, an importanc...