US Patent Issued to NEC on April 22 for "Imaging system, imaging method, and computer readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,077, issued on April 22, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging system, imaging method, and computer readable medium" was invented by Keiichi Chono (Tokyo), Ryuichi Akashi (Tokyo) and Yuka Ogino (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system (10) includes: iris imaging means (1) for photographing an iris of a subject; first irradiation means (2a) for applying light to the subject; and second irradiation means (2b) for applying light to the subject in such a manner that an angle between an optical axis of the light emitted from the second irradiation means (2b) and an optical axis of the iris imaging means (1) is larger t...