US Patent Issued to NEC on Feb. 4 for "Authentication device, authentication method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,548, issued on Feb. 4, 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: "The disclosure is detecting an authentication target who is moving in a predetermined direction in a video; inputting a first image in which an entire body of the target; calculating characteristic information from an image of the entire body in the first i...