US Patent Issued to NEC, NEC Platforms on July 1 for "Imaging apparatus for authentication and authentication system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,232, issued on July 1, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo) and NEC Platforms Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging apparatus for authentication and authentication system" was invented by Toshinobu Ogatsu (Tokyo), Ryoma Oami (Tokyo), Toshiyuki Sashihara (Tokyo), Takamichi Miyamoto (Tokyo), Ryuichi Akashi (Tokyo), Ryo Yamakabe (Tokyo) and Daisuke Shimada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus for authentication includes: a first imaging unit that obtains a first image used in a first authentication process by imaging a target person; a second imaging unit that obtains a second image used in a second image process ...