ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,133, issued on June 23, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Photographing method and apparatus" was invented by Yuchen Shi (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a photographing method and apparatus. The photographing method includes: obtaining an eyeball gaze position of a user when a front-facing camera is activated to shoot an image; and performing a preset processing operation when the gaze position is not concentrated in a fixed region within a first preset duration; where the preset processing operation includes displaying a facial image of a first user in...