US Patent Issued to Motorola Mobility on July 14 for "Guiding camera positioning during image capture in an electronic device" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,496, issued on July 14, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Guiding camera positioning during image capture in an electronic device" was invented by Ranjeet Gupta (Aurora, Ill.), Rahul Bharat Desai (Hoffman Estates, Ill.) and Daniel M Vacura (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device, a method and a computer program product for guiding positioning of the electronic device during image capturing. The method includes, while an electronic device is in an image capturing mode using a camera, determining if a first preview image contains a face of a subject whose image is to be captured. In response to dete...