US Patent Issued to Dai Nippon Printing on Dec. 30 for "Photographing device, control method thereof, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,358, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Photographing device, control method thereof, and program" was invented by Jin Tashiro (Kokubunji, Japan), Tomoya Hayase (Kawasaki, Japan) and Sho Kato (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photographing device can realize electronic applications by performing strict identity verification. A photographing device reads surface information on an applicant's ID card (an identity verification medium) or data on an IC chip by using a reading device, a camera, an IC card reader, or the like. Also, the camera captures an application image that is to be us...