US Patent Issued to NEC on July 22 for "Iris recognition apparatus, iris recognition method, computer program and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,711, issued on July 22, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Iris recognition apparatus, iris recognition method, computer program and recording medium" was invented by Keiichi Chono (Tokyo), Yuka Ogino (Tokyo) and Ryuichi Akashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An iris recognition apparatus is provided with: an irradiating device that is capable of irradiating light to a target person to be recognized; an acquiring device that acquires a first image which imaged a first imaging range including at least a face of the target person; and a determining device that determines an irradiation mode of light irradiated from the irradiati...