US Patent Issued to LENOVO (UNITED STATES) on July 7 for "Camera device and method for precluding capture of manual data entry in image data" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,059, issued on July 7, was assigned to LENOVO (UNITED STATES) INC. (Morrisville, N.C.).

"Camera device and method for precluding capture of manual data entry in image data" was invented by Robert J Kapinos (Durham, N.C.), Igor Stolbikov (Apex, N.C.), Robert James Norton Jr. (Raleigh, N.C.) and Scott Li (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera device and method are described that perform object detection on sensor data generated by an image sensor to detect an input device within an environment outside of the camera device. The camera device and method analyze the sensor data to detect a hand of a user within the environment...