US Patent Issued to NEC on June 3 for "Face authentication apparatus, control method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium therefor, face authentication gate apparatus, and control method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium therefor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,429, issued on June 3, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Face authentication apparatus, control method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium therefor, face authentication gate apparatus, and control method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium therefor" was invented by Masumi Ishikawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A face authentication apparatus (50) includes an image generation unit (102) that generates a first image by capturing an image of a person, a control unit (104) that, when the first image does not satisfy a criterion for face collation, controls lighting and causes the image generation ...