ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,684, issued on June 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image acquisition device and method of controlling the same" was invented by Jaeho Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yeultak Sung (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an artificial intelligence (AI) system that mimics functions, such as recognition and determination by human brains, by utilizing a machine learning algorithm, such as deep learning, and applications of the AI system. An image acquisition device is disclosed including a camera configured to acquire a first image, wherein a portion of a main object i...