ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,554, issued on July 21, was assigned to ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Image capturing device and zooming method for depth-of-field image thereof" was invented by Chang-Tai Lee (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing device and a zooming method for a depth-of-field image thereof are disclosed. The method is adapted to the image capturing device including a first lens module and a second lens module, and includes the following steps. In response to a photographing instruction, a first image and a second image are acquired respectively by using the first lens module and the second lens modu...