ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,809, issued on May 20, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Photographing apparatus and authentication apparatus" was invented by Yusuke Matsuda (Tokyo), Naoto Miura (Tokyo), Akio Nagasaka (Tokyo), Yo Nonomura (Tokyo) and Keiichiro Nakazaki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photographing apparatus includes: an imaging unit which is arranged at a position opposed to a plurality of fingers to be presented, and is configured to image the plurality of fingers; and a plurality of light sources which are arranged in plurality in an array direction of the plurality of fingers, and are configured to irradiate the plurality of fingers...