US Patent Issued to NEC on Feb. 4 for "Imaging system, imaging method, and non-temporary computer-readable medium storing imaging program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,542, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging system, imaging method, and non-temporary computer-readable medium storing imaging program" was invented by Yuka Ogino (Tokyo) and Keiichi Chono (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system (10) according to the disclosure includes: a first control unit (11) configured to control, in such a way as to fix a focal position in a predetermined position, an iris imaging means for capturing an image focusing on an iris of a target person; an authentication unit (12) configured to authenticate the target person, based on an iris image of the target person being cap...