ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,691, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SHANGHAI ZHANGMEN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Photographing methods and devices" was invented by Danian Chen (Shanghai), Xiaobin Gu (Shanghai) and Wenzhao Liang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a photographing method and device. The solution acquires a first image through a camera module, then acquires a second image conforming with a composition mode, according to the first image, and in turn determines photographing parameters suitable for the second image, and photographs the second image based on the photographing parameters."

The p...