ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,025, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Personal authentication apparatus and control method" was invented by Kazuhiro Namiki (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A personal authentication apparatus comprises a first image capture unit that captures an eyeball image, a first image processing unit that obtains brightness information of the captured eyeball image and generates divided eyeball images by dividing a region of the eyeball image based on the brightness information of the eyeball image, a first storage unit that stores brightness information of the divided eyeball images and position informa...