US Patent Issued to NEC on June 3 for "Determining whether or not iris information can be extracted from photograph image by using machine learning model" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,208, issued on June 3, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Determining whether or not iris information can be extracted from photograph image by using machine learning model" was invented by Hiroaki Toyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A determination apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires a photograph image obtained by photographing a user, a storage unit that stores a first learning model constructed through machine learning using teacher data in which a plurality of images of eyes are associated with labels each indicating whether or not an iris can be extracted, and a first determination unit that inputs the ...