US Patent Issued to NEC on Aug. 26 for "Authentication device, authentication method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,660, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Authentication device, authentication method, and recording medium" was invented by Takashi Shibata (Tokyo), Shoji Yachida (Tokyo), Chisato Funayama (Tokyo), Masato Tsukada (Tokyo), Yuka Ogino (Tokyo), Keiichi Chono (Tokyo), Emi Kitagawa (Tokyo), Yasuhiko Yoshida (Tokyo) and Yusuke Mori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication device includes an image acquisition unit, an identification unit, and an authentication unit. The image acquisition unit acquires an image of an eye of a subject. The identification unit identifies the colored pattern of a colored conta...