ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,301, issued on March 3, was assigned to GOERTEK INC. (Weifang, China).

"Photographing function control method, photographing function control device, AR apparatus and storage medium" was invented by Qinghe Yang (Weifang, China), Xudong Qiu (Weifang, China) and Xiaofeng Guo (Weifang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a method for controlling a photographing function, which is applied to an AR apparatus, the method comprising: if a photographing function calling instruction is received, activating a photographing device of the AR apparatus; setting a display status of the AR apparatus to a non-previ...