ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,619, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device" was invented by Taketo Kochi (Tokyo) and Kenji Saito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device of the present invention includes: an image processing means that extracts a feature value of an object within a captured image obtained by capturing a pre-passing region of a gate, and stores matching information relating to matching of the object based on the feature value; a distance estimating means that estimates a distance from the gate to the object within the captured image; and a matching means that executes matchin...