US Patent Issued to NEC on Aug. 26 for "Gate device, authentication system, gate device control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,502, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Gate device, authentication system, gate device control method, and storage medium" was invented by Junichi Inoue (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a gate device that accurately determines a user who is an authentication target. This gate device is provided with an acquisition unit, a setting unit, and a gate control unit. The acquisition unit acquires an image from a camera. When a plurality of users are included in the acquired image, the setting unit specifies a user on the front row among the plurality of users in accordance with the respective positions ...