US Patent Issued to NEC on April 15 for "Face authentication apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,824, issued on April 15, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Face authentication apparatus" was invented by Taketo Kochi (Tokyo) and Kenji Saito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A face authentication apparatus includes a face image acquisition unit, a collation unit, a time measurement unit, and a threshold change unit. The face image acquisition unit acquires a face image of an authentication target. The collation unit performs face authentication on the face image of the authentication target on the basis of a threshold. The time measurement unit measures the elapsed time from the time of starting operation of the face authenti...