ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,867, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Photographing method and apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium" was invented by Qihao Yang (Chang'an Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a photographing method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium, and pertains to the field of imaging technologies. The method includes: receiving a first input from a user on a target control in a camera preview screen, where the target control includes a first region and the first region corresponds to N depth-of-field values; displaying...