ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,106, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Digital photographing apparatus including a plurality of optical systems for acquiring images under different conditions and method of operating the same" was invented by Hee-Chul Han (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital photographing apparatus is provided. The digital photographing apparatus includes a first optical system configured to acquire a wide-angle image including a subject, a second optical system configured to acquire a telephoto image with the subject zoomed, and a processor configured to determine whet...