My IPad 4 goes dark right after "slide to unlock" appears...

New user here...
When I turn on my IPad4, the Apple logo appears, then the "slide to unlock" bar...At this point, the "slide bar" is not operational.  If I try to slide it, nothing happens. After about 2 seconds, the screen goes black, as if it is going into sleep mode.  Then I push the home button, the screen comes back, and the slide bar operates normally, and everything operates normally thereafter.
Two questions...
1) Has anyone else seen this?
2) It's annoying, is there any way to get it the slide bar to work right away?

Ok, so here's the update...
I did the soft reset, and that didn't do anything.  It still behaved the same way.  I called Apple Support (this IPad is brand new), and they said to bring it back for an exchange. 
So I exchanged it for the same unit, yesterday.
The first couple times I booted up the new unit yesterday, it was fine, slide to unlock worked.
Now today, this one is doing the exact same behavior. Slide to unlock isn't operational, and the screen does dark until I hit the home button to get the screen back. Then everything works fine.
I'm starting to think this is "normal", but I can't get anyone to confirm or deny that. No one else has this behavior?

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