ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,637, issued on March 25, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for controlling camera, and under-display camera structure" was invented by Li Cao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method and an apparatus for controlling an under-display camera, and the under-display camera structure. The method includes: when a camera is in a turned-on state, lamp beads close to a camera end are turned off and lamp beads far away from the camera are controlled to be in a lighting state, and light emitted by the second-type lamp beads forms a circle of light on the convex glass after being ref...