ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,149, issued on April 22, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Collation system" was invented by Taketo Kochi (Tokyo) and Kenji Saito (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collation system of the present invention includes imaging means for acquiring a captured image of a pre-passage side area with respect to each of gates arranged in parallel with each other, and collation means for performing a collation process on the captured image of the pre-passage side area for each of the gates, between a previously registered target and a target included in the captured image. The collation means performs the collation process on the basis of...