ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,809, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to HONOR DEVICE Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Shooting method and related device" was invented by Jirun Xu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shooting method and a related device. According to the shooting method, a camera application in an electronic device may send an instruction of shooting in advance through a custom interface when a user taps a shutter control. The electronic device may determine a current 3A state based on the instruction of shooting. If the current 3A state is a 3A lock state, the electronic device obtains an image frame. In the foregoing process, the electron...