ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,387, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD (Guangdong, China).

"Shooting method and apparatus" was invented by Shifan Yin (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application belongs to the field of communication technologies, and discloses a shooting method and apparatus. The method includes: displaying a shooting interface; determining an extension amplitude value of a screen based on a proportion of a shot object in the shooting interface; extending a display region of the screen based on the extension amplitude value; and determining a target brightness value of the screen based on at le...