ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,298, issued on March 3, was assigned to SHANGHAI FUSAIMENGYANG TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Camera control method and apparatus" was invented by Winly Zhu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a camera control method and apparatus. The method includes: acquiring an instruction used for controlling a camera; acquiring a current state of the camera, wherein the state includes at least one of: an extending and retracting state of the camera and a rotating state of the camera, the camera is hidden inside a mobile terminal after retracting, and the camera can be driven to extend, retract, and rotate...