ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,531, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for controlling a robot photographer with semantic intelligence" was invented by Dmitriy Rivkin (Montreal) and Gregory Lewis Dudek (Westmount, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device for controlling a photographic system may obtain a video stream and a user query for a target event, obtain a set of photos from the video stream, obtain at least one photoshoot suggestion based on the user query via a language model, obtain a snapped photo for the target event based on the at least one photoshoot suggest...