US Patent Issued to NEC on May 13 for "Determination system, determination method, computer program, and authentication system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,037, issued on May 13, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Determination system, determination method, computer program, and authentication system" was invented by Akihiro Hayasaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A determination system includes: a projection control unit that controls a projection unit to project a random marker within an angle of view of an imaging unit; an acquisition unit that obtains an image of a target person including the marker from the imaging unit; and a determination unit that determines whether or not the target person imaged by the imaging unit is a living body on the basis of a state of the marker...