ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,736, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method of controlling camera with auto-zooming" was invented by Solae Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sungyoul Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungin Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Changbeom Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyeongseok Son (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Byung In Yoo (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and a method of controlling a camera is provided. The apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive an image from an image sensor and a processor configured to detect a target object fr...