US Patent Issued to NEC on Dec. 9 for "Tenprint card input device, tenprint card input method and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,984, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Tenprint card input device, tenprint card input method and storage medium" was invented by Masanori Hara (Tokyo) and Tatsuya Shimahara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fingerprint image processing device includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor performs operations. The operations include reading a tenprint card image which includes a plurality of fingerprint patterns and at least one ruled line to separate one fingerprint imprint area from another fingerprint imprint area, and extracting from the tenprint card image a fingerprint image whi...