US Patent Issued to NEC on May 27 for "Information processing system, information processing method, biometric matching system, biometric matching method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,290, issued on May 27, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system, information processing method, biometric matching system, biometric matching method, and storage medium" was invented by Hiroaki Toyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an information processing system including an image information acquisition means for acquiring direction information and quality information indicating quality of the direction information from a biometric image, and an output means for outputting a feature amount of the biometric image by inputting a vector having a direction associated with the direction...