US Patent Issued to NEC on June 17 for "Information processing system, information processing apparatus, information processing method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,848, issued on June 17, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system, information processing apparatus, information processing method, and recording medium" was invented by Takaaki Sonobe (Tokyo) and Akira Hirokawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing system includes: a storage unit that stores first area information indicating a clear zone in which a feature quantity of a ridge in a ridge image can be extracted, and second area information indicating an unclear zone that is an area other than the clear zone, in association with each of a plurality of ridge images; an extraction unit th...