US Patent Issued to NEC on Oct. 7 for "Biometric determination system, biometric determination method, and computer program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,044, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Biometric determination system, biometric determination method, and computer program" was invented by Takayuki Kase (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biometric determination system includes: a face detection unit that detects a position of a face from an image including the face; a temperature acquisition unit that obtains temperatures at a plurality of points of the face; and a biometric determination unit that determines whether or not the face belongs to a living body on the basis of the temperatures at the plurality of points. According to such a biometric determinat...